The University of Navarra is launching 50 professor innovation projects professor the 2025–26 academic year

Nearly 300 faculty members and staff and support staff participated in the ninth edition of the University of Navarra’s Innova Forum, a meeting teaching . Organized by the teaching Planning and Improvement Office, the event focused on talent as a driver of change. During the meeting , the Innova Awards meeting presented, recognizing the best professor innovation initiatives professor university.

This academic year, 50 innovation projects were developed across various fields of knowledge. In the Science category, the award went to the initiativedesign, Implementation, and assessment Peer Learning in the teaching Technical Skills to Second-Year Degree Students,” led by Professor Marta Lizarbe Chocarro. The project, which aims to improve students’ skills through work , also received the most votes from the public.

In the Talent category, the winner was “Focus and Commitment: Improving Learning in Architecture and design, designled by Pilar Salazar Lozano of the School of Architecture. The work techniques to improve students’ attention and concentration. Likewise, in the Commitment category, the winner was a project medical ethics for the Degree , led by Dr. Carmen D’Amelio of the School of Medicine the Clínica Universidad de Navarra. 

Finally, in the EurekAI category—new this year and recognizing innovative professor incorporate AI—the winner was the initiative led by Isabella Leibrandt, a tenured professor of language Literature and language , on the use of AI in teaching .

Create a culture where talent can thrive

The workshop with remarks from the president, María Iraburu. “We are called upon to create an environment that brings out the best in everyone, where talent can flourish,” she said. For his part, Francisco Esteban Bara, Full Professor Philosophy of Education the University of Barcelona, led the session titled “Welcome to the home of teachers and students: the purpose university talent.” The speaker four virtues that underpin professor talent: effort, prudence, authenticity, and elegance. “Talent is inherent in the university spirit; on a campus must breathe talent; in a classroom, the word ‘talent’ must be written on the board; in a group teachers and students, talent must be everywhere and 24 hours a day,” he emphasized. 

The workshop featured a roundtable which the vice-rectors of the University of Navarra—Mónica Herrero (Communication), Raúl Antón (faculty), and Secundino Fernández (teaching)—reflected on what constitutes professor talent professor how to create a culture where it can flourish.