Católica Corporate Governance: Católica meets to prepare the future

The Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) (UCP) holds an annual Staff Meeting - Catholic Corporate Governance to reflect on the institution's achievements and prepare the future of the university. This year, the event was held at the Palma de Cima campus in Lisbon on September 25.

UCP's Rectress, Isabel Capeloa Gil, highlighted UCP's position in the Times Higher Education ranking. For the second year in a row, Católica is the best university in Portugal. The accreditation of the Medicine course was also celebrated.

António Medina de Almeida, Director of Faculdade de Medicina, explained how the new course is based on research, a teaching method based on problem solving, and stressed that the project is an opportunity for the future of health in Portugal.

The event also featured interventions by Michael Stopford, founder and managing partner of ANCORED, who reflected on the future of universities after the pandemic, and Sérgio Rebelo, alumnus of the Catholic University and Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, who shared his vision of the challenges and opportunities in the context of the pandemic.

A day marked by vision in the future, and the search to do more, and better.

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