Universidade Europeia and IPAM launch initiative to boost academic success

Universidade Europeia, IPAM Lisboa and IPAM Porto have joined forces in a strategic consortium to support diversity and promote academic success. This partnership gave rise to the SuPERA programme - Support for Promoting and Stimulating Academic Achievement, which has been supported under the Recovery and Resilience Programme (PRR) and will therefore be developed at the three institutions between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2026. Among the expected impacts will be an increase in the percentage of students who complete their studies and the prevention of academic dropouts. In addition, there will be various actions aimed at strengthening self-learning and teamwork practices.

SuPERA will cover the entire student community, which will have access to an Office for Supporting Diversity and Promoting Academic Success and a team of Pedagogical Tutors who will be supported by innovative software for controlling and monitoring academic success and dropouts. These strategies will consolidate the U.E's and IPAM's commitment to academic integration, as well as pedagogical innovation and modernisation.

For Hélia Gonçalves Pereira, dean of Universidade Europeia: ‘SuPERA reinforces the institution's commitment to developing a differentiating academic model, centred on the student and on skills associated with knowing, but also with knowing how to do. This project has been very well received, with a series of measures that are decisively committed to academic integration and pedagogical innovation and modernisation, pillars on which our educational project is also based. What's more, we're motivating students by boosting their self-confidence and achieving good results, helping them to succeed both academically and in more personal dimensions.’

This initiative seeks to respond to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, contributing to quality education (SDG4), reducing inequalities (SDG10), as well as valuing peace, justice and effective institutions (SDG16).

The SuPERA project has received funding of 588,739.00 euros from the Recovery and Resilience Plan through the Impulso MAIS Digital programme, the physical and financial implementation of which is the responsibility of the Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior.