International Week 2022 in Leiria

The Polytechnic of Leiria invited to participate on the International Week that took place on 9-13 May in Portugal. It was nice opportunity for me to participate in the international week and increase my network beyond Finland, meet new people and see new place. It was a thematic week that also included an Open Staff Week on the theme of mental, physical, and emotional health. Beyond the open staff week, the Polytechnic of Leiria intended to promote sectorial meetings between peers (international officers, professors, staff in general). At the same time cultural events, a networking fair, visits to their facilities and laboratories and some sightseeing tours were held to highlight the institution and their region internationally.

Participants were from diversified group of nationalities and represented various categories of staff. Polytechnic of Leiria is also a project partner of Novia University of Applied Sciences, through project GreenOVET- European VET Excellence Platform for Green Innovation, I took this opportunity to meet our project partners and had a discussion on our project goals and future activities. Furthermore, I took this opportunity to promote our project H2 Ecosystem Roadmap and presented the project and importance of green hydrogen in a Seminar. Thanks to ERASMUS + grant the trip was possible, it was very interesting to meet so many different people, experience Portugal and promote Novia and our projects in such an international event.