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Acknowledged for its unceasing promotion of the Erasmus mobility programmes,
the IPB has been accredited with the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education 2014-
2020 and awarded by the European Commission with the ECTS Label (for the
period 2011-2014) as well as the Diploma Supplement Label (for the period 2013-
2016). The IPB is proud to be one of the few national and international institutions
that has been distinguished simultaneously with both quality labels. These awards
represent a strong indicator of the international level achieved by the IPB as being
on the top of the European Higher Education Institutes within the scope of the
Erasmus mobility programmes.
After two numbers of Teaching Crossroads within the 7th and 8th IPB Erasmus
Weeks, we are now proud to present the third number of Teaching Crossroads as
regards the 9th Erasmus Week which took place in May 2013.
Once again, teaching staff, who participated in the academic and cultural event
that made up the Erasmus Week by delivering seminars, lectures and/or workshops,
were invited to make their texts available for publication.
In this number of Teaching Crossroads, we aimed, once more, at making the
publication thorough regarding the accuracy and effectiveness of the articles presented.
Therefore, for the first time, the texts have been peer-reviewed. We would
then like to thank all the peer reviewers who most kindly and willingly reviewed the texts, namely Ana Paula Monte, Ana Paula Sismeiro, António Meireles, Cláudia
Martins, Elisabete Silva, Maria Augusta Mata, Miguel Ângelo Rodrigues, Paulo
Mafra and Rui Pedro Lopes from the IPB.
The research areas focused on in this number are rather multidisciplinary
covering the following knowledge domains: Information Technology and Applied
Sciences; Nursing and Health Care; Economics; Law and Environmental Education;
Education (Art, Linguistics and Translation and Culture Studies).
Patrick Siegfried devotes his attention to the importance of the service sector
for the industry, highlighting the German situation in regard to the tertiary sector.
In his article, the author presents several research approaches launched in Germany
that deal with the recent developments in service engineering and service development
research in Germany over the last years.
Axel Sikora gives us an overview on The Internet of Things (IoT) applications,
such as ubiquitous computing and ubiquitous connectivity, Cyber Physical Systems
(CPS), ambient intelligence, Machine-to-Machine communication (M2M) or Carto-
Car (C2C)-communication, smart metering, smart grid, telematics, telecare and
telehealth. The author demonstrates how these applications are used today to increase
efficiency and to improve the availability of information. Moreover, we are also
shown the different phases of the evolution of embedded system for social-enabled
applications, particularly in relation to the connectivity and information exchange.
Pedro Gutiérrez Moraño, Belinda Basilio Fernández and José Luis Bote
Mohedano offer us a series of health hints and preventive measures, as far as
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and its consequences are concerned. In order to prevent
the amputations related to the diabetic foot, the authors provide us with a series
of effective preventive strategies to decrease the incidence, prevalence, morbidity
and the costs of the diabetic foot and foot at risk, as well as to improve the quality
of the attention process to people with DM in Primary Health.
Alba María Priego de la Cruz in her article entitled ‘Value added as a Source
of Information for Stakeholders’ defines the concept of economic value added and
evaluates the participation and behaviour of stakeholders in the generation and
distribution of value added, which may be decisive in favouring the business activity.
María Rosa Vásquez Rodriguez with the text ‘Environmental policy: Environmental
Education’ continues the same study that she presented last year, but this
time with some more additional information. The author tries to settle a connection
between economics and environmental policy and the impact of environmental
education on the environment protection, pointing out the different instruments
available to public administration that ensure the preservation of the environment.
Elisabeth Fernbach, with the very original and appealing title ’With an open
mind’, captures one’s attention by demonstrating that creativity can be taught with
a cross curricular focus on new media. Therefore, she upholds that education in
art and art in education epitomises the right path to self-discovery and to a clearer understanding of the world and others, by presenting several possible tasks that
can enhance creativity. Finally, she also offer examples of students´ and children’s
art works as a result of these creative processes.
Cláudia Martins, the regular speaker for the lectures on Portuguese Culture
and Language during our Erasmus weeks, presents now a very enlightening text
on ‘Diatopic Variation in Portugal: Notes on European Portuguese Dialects’. In this
article, she describes, in a very detailed way, the geographical varieties of European
Portuguese, namely the dialects in mainland Portugal and the islands of Madeira
and Azores, based on the information gathered in the main linguistic atlases.
Bearing in mind the spirit of this publication, which is the promotion of crosscurricular
studies and teaching mobility, this year we have also decided to include
the texts of some of the IPB teachers who were given a grant within the Lifelong
Learning Programme-Erasmus Mobility for Teachers during the last two years and
thus delivered lectures in several European partner universities.
Isabel Chumbo went to the University of Zagreb in 2012 and there she gave a
lecture under the title: “Translators censoring Propaganda – a case study on the
translation of Salazar’s speeches into English”. The author presents a very insightful
analysis of translation as a propaganda tool during the dictatorial regime of António
Oliveira Salazar (1932-68) in Portugal.
Elisabete Silva went to the Riga Teacher Training and Educational Management
Academy, Latvia, in May 2011 where she delivered a lecture on Isaiah Berlin, born
in Riga, highlighting the man and the intellectual and focusing on the importance
of education as a valuable asset in a person’s life.
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Silva, Elisabete; Pais, Clarisse; Pais, L.S. Eds. (2014). Teaching Crossroads: 9th IPB Erasmus Week. Bragança: Instituto Politécnico. ISBN 978-972-745-166-1