Empowering Students’ Autonomous Academic Pathways for a Better Alignment between Higher Education and the Labour Market

The programme aims to empower students to make autonomous, informed, and purposeful decisions regarding their academic and professional development. Participants will explore how higher education can better align academic learning with labour-market needs while strengthening students’ capacity to identify, develop, and communicate relevant competences for future employment.

How can higher education better connect academic learning with labour-market needs while enabling students to make autonomous, informed and purposeful decisions about their academic and professional pathways?

This Change Maker Ambassador Programme addresses the gap that often exists between academic experiences and labour-market expectations. Participants will explore how students can become active agents in shaping their educational journeys, better understand professional opportunities, and develop the competences required for future careers. Working with employers, alumni, career services and student representatives, participants will co-create solutions that support a more flexible, student-centred and professionally relevant higher education experience.

• Portugal Activo – Association of Fitness and Health Clubs
• CUF Santarém Hospital
• Alexandre Herculano School Group
• Alumni of UPSantarém
• Student associations of UPSantarém
• Entrepreneurship and Employability Office of UPSantarém

Registration is done by email. To register, please send an email to the programme coordinators: paula.pinto@esa.ipsantarem.pt, sfranco@esdrm.ipsantarem.pt.

Participants receive a certificate worth 1 ECTS.

Paula Pinto, e-mail: paula.pinto@esa.ipsantarem.pt

Susana Franco, e-mail: sfranco@esdrm.ipsantarem.pt