The Board of Trustees awards the Honours for Teaching Quality

Concepció Amat.
Concepció Amat.
Academic
(19/05/2016)

The second edition of the Honours for Teaching Quality given by the Board of Trustees of the UB has awarded the teacher Concepció Amat Miralles, from the Department of Biochemistry and Physiology at the Faculty of Pharmacy in the category of individual teaching career, and the Formació Docent i Innovació Pegagògica group (Teacher Training and Pedagogue Innovation, FODIP), led by Dr. Francesc Imbernon Muñoz, in the category of Teaching group. These honours aim to encourage teaching quality and promote and honour the teaching excellence. The individual category distinguishes the relevant teaching career of the teaching staff in the UB and the teaching group awards the improvement and innovation initiatives of teaching teams and groups, and the promotion of teaching coordination mechanisms, each of these categories has a fund of 5.000 euros.

Concepció Amat.
Concepció Amat.
Academic
19/05/2016

The second edition of the Honours for Teaching Quality given by the Board of Trustees of the UB has awarded the teacher Concepció Amat Miralles, from the Department of Biochemistry and Physiology at the Faculty of Pharmacy in the category of individual teaching career, and the Formació Docent i Innovació Pegagògica group (Teacher Training and Pedagogue Innovation, FODIP), led by Dr. Francesc Imbernon Muñoz, in the category of Teaching group. These honours aim to encourage teaching quality and promote and honour the teaching excellence. The individual category distinguishes the relevant teaching career of the teaching staff in the UB and the teaching group awards the improvement and innovation initiatives of teaching teams and groups, and the promotion of teaching coordination mechanisms, each of these categories has a fund of 5.000 euros.

Dra. Amat has been Head of Studies of the Pharmacy Studies for 8 years and has also been Head of Studies of Human Nutrition and Dietetics Studies. She has led the curriculum adaptation and transition from the old bachelor degrees (llicenciatura) to the new ones (grau), has promoted several improvement and innovation actions which involved teachers, innovation groups, teaching teams of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, such as the launching of the End-of-Degree Projects, incorporation and skills assessment, coordination among courses and the external internship program. In each teaching task regarding Physiology she has led the innovation teaching group, consolidated by the University of Barcelona, Alternatives Metodològiques en Fisiologia I Fisiopatologia (Methodology Alternatives in Physiology and Physiopathology), and has done a great contribution to the teaching quality with 25 teaching innovation projects in several categories, 19 articles, 30 publications of different typologies, 72 communications in conferences and the production of 11 teaching materials.

The FODIP group has dedicated great part of their activity to the teaching innovation; it has been distinguished since 2006 by the University and since 2011 as Grup dʼInnovació Docent Consolidat (Consolidated Teaching Innovation Group). In the last accreditation process it won the first position in the ranking of the Teaching Improvement and Innovation Program (PMID). Within its long career, there are 18 publications in magazines of scientific interest, 50 books and book chapters, 60 communications in national and international conferences, 3 Teaching Innovation Projects, 4 contracts in this category, and Teaching Innovation actions with a direct impact on the teaching improvement of teachers and professionals nationally and internationally with whom they keep collaboration.

The jury was co-chaired by the rector, Dídac Ramírez, and the President of the Board of Trustees, Salvador Alemany, formed by the President of the Academic Committee of the Board of Trustees, Francesc Boada; the vice-Rector of Teaching and Language Policy, Manel Viader; the sub-Director of the Institute of Education Sciences, Xavier Maria Triadó Ivern; Núria Aymeric representing the Board of Trustees; Andrés Millán representing the students at the Board of Trustees; Elena Cano and Max Turull, teachers of the University, and Miquel Amorós, Secretary of the jury.