The Innova Awards are an award given annually by the teaching Planning and Improvement Service to the best professor innovation projects carried out at the University of Navarra.
From the academic year 09/10 to 23/24, the University of Navarra has carried out more than 1000 professor innovation projects. Of the 70 projects that were developed in the 23/24 academic year, 9 initiatives nominated for the Innova Awards were selected.

formative-summative self-assessment by means of a test with a certainty-based score
project Director: Mercedes Iñarrairaegui
Participants: Jorge Quiroga, Ana Belén Alcaide, Manuel Landecho, Marcos Llorent
Face-to-face versus digital connection. Impact of conversation on psychic maturity and staff growth through classic dialogues of world literature.
project Director: María Dolores Conesa
Participants: Maria del Carmen Gonzalez, Cristina Ugarte, Katya Palafox
Psychology Degree concept map and integration of research competencies
projectDirector : Martín Martínez Villar
Participants: Angel Sobrino, Miguel Valencia, Luis H. Eudave, Elkin Oswaldo Luis Garcia.

Family memories. Literature, history, ethnography and identity.
project Director: Naiara Ardanaz Iñarga
Participants: Pilar Saiz, Rocío Davis, Ana Belén Martínez, Francisco Javier Caspistegui, Ana Zabalza, Lydia Mangado González
Gene editing: proposal professor integrating scientific and ethical issues
design and Application of game dynamics in integrated project methodology
projectDirector : Andrés Tabera Roldán
Participants: Juan Bordes, Pablo Arza, Álvaro Velasco, Daniel González

IDS: Iuvenes dum sumus. Journal of young humanists
projectDirector : Jesús M. Usunáriz Garayoa
Participants: Carlos Mata Induráin, Francisco Javier Caspistegui
Preadiction II: creating synergies to design a caring campus
project Director: Idoia Pardavila Belio
Participants: Elena Puerta, Maira Bes, Silvia Carlos, Aitor Acilu, María Villanueva, Amaia Zuazua, Javier Antón, Bienvenido León, Elene Gutierrez, Laura García, Luis H. Eudave, Sofía Neddermann.
Searching for the perfect Operations Management agenda
projectDirector : Javier Santos García
Participants: Imma Ribas Vila (UPC), Rudi de Castro Vila (UdG), Jose Pedro Garcia-Sabater (UPV), Paz Perez Gonzalez (US)
History of Nominations and Winners
Best Disruptive project
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Bringing the concept of poverty closer to the classroom through online games.
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Comparison of real patients with standardized patients in the teaching of Degree in Medicine.
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development of the service-learning methodology through a virtual environment
The award for the best disruptive project was awarded to the initiative "Bringing the concept of poverty closer to classroom through online games", directed by the School professor of Economics Isabel Rodríguez Tejedo.
Best Collaborative project
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Integration of the conceptual framework of the School of Nursing in the Degree courses of the Nursing Care for Adult Patients department
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Active vs passive learning: improving the learning of processes related to environmental management through simulations of real cases
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research on historical references: an internship shared by Architecture students from the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) and UNCuyo (Mendoza, Argentina). Navarra (Pamplona) and UNCuyo (Mendoza, Argentina).
The award for the best collaborative project went to "research on historical references: a internship shared by Architecture students from the University of Navarra (Pamplona) and the UNCuyo (Mendoza, Argentina)", directed by María Angélica Rodríguez.
Best project Transfer
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Creation of a new dynamic in the laboratory internship that allows students to better visualize processes.
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Writing Center: academic literacy in digital (with) texts
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training Integral in Covid19
Finally, "training Integral en Covid19", directed by doctors Leire Arbea, José Luis del Pozo and Jorge Quiroga Vila, won the award for the best transfer project .
Best Disruptive project
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The award for the best disruptive project was given to the "design, implementation and assessment of virtual reality in the nursing curriculum "led by Virginia La Rosa, professor at the School of Nursing.
Best Collaborative project
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What really happened at Chernobyl? Implications and consequences
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The integration of journalistic formats in the elaboration of news reports.
The award for the best disruptive project was given to the initiative "The integration of journalistic formats in the production of news reports.The integration of journalistic formats in the elaboration of news stories"directed by Pilar Martínez-Costa, professor at the School of Communication.
Best project Transfer
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The award for the best disruptive project was given to the initiative "Care and Society, a new subject for a caring campus.Care and Society, a new subject for a caring campus "This inter-faculty and interdisciplinary project , coordinated by the Atlantesproject of the Institute of Culture and Society together with the Core Curriculum Institute, was coordinated by Ana Carvajal, professor at the School of Nursing.
Best Disruptive project
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The award for the best disruptive project was awarded to the initiative "teaching cooperative: dialogue at classroom", directed by Raquel Cascales Tornel, professor at the School of Architecture.
Best Collaborative project
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The award for the best collaborative project went to "Nurse managers in the 21st century: a teaching focused on development integral competencies", directed by Hildegart González Luis.
Best project Transfer
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Finally, "Escritura y sostenibilidad", directed by María José Gallucci Natale, won the award for best transfer project .