a.  All members attending FP-ULisboa are responsible for their daily self-monitoring of signs and symptoms and should refrain from entering the premises of IE/FP if they present symptoms compatible with COVID-19. In this case, they should stay at home and contact the competent health authorities and follow the directions they are given;;

b. Mandatory use of masks to access the premises.

c. Mandatory hand sanitising with a disinfectant solution at the entrance of the building, services, classrooms and labs and any other common areas;

d. Whenever the weather conditions permit it, keeping windows open, in working areas and public attendance services, to ensure adequate air flow;

e. Compliance with the social distancing rules recommended by the health authorities, namely keeping a minimum physical distance of 1 metre between people, in terms of both circulation and use of spaces;

f. Compliance with the entry, circulation and exit indications established for common areas;

g. It is recommended that students go to IE-ULisboa only on the days they have on-site teaching activities and that contact with administrative services is preferably done at a distance, namely by using the site, the academic portal, and email and telephone contacts;

a. Services will attend the public on site, through email and by telephone;

b. When accessing Academic Services there is a system of tickets so gatherings of more than 2 people are not allowed in the building’s atrium.

a. The Library and computer/study rooms – except for the space next to the bar/canteen – are open to students, albeit with limitations;

b. Access to the Library will be restrained to a small number of users, depending on the need to apply social distancing rules and the hygiene conditions inside, according to indications given at the reception desk;

c. The number of workstations in the computer/study rooms will be reduced by 50%, in order to safeguard social distancing inside and according to the spaces’ conditions of ventilation social;

d. The bar and the canteen will work every day, in compliance with the measures issued by the relevant authorities for this sector of activity. Their capacity will be cut by around 50%, with specific lanes for entering, circulating and exiting;

e. Given the limited access and use of the bar and canteen, adjacent external spaces will be created, exclusively for the purpose of eating meals, in compliance with the excepted rules of distancing and hygiene.

a. In case someone presents signs or symptoms of COVID-19, a space has been set up to receive and isolate them – ROOM 16 –, together with the exclusive use of a bathroom nearby, if needed.

b. The team responsible for the implementation of the FP/IE-ULisboa Contingency Plan can be contacted in case of need, in the following order::
– Mr. António Júlio Fornelos (Head of Technical Services / Ext. 13658);
– Mr. João Costa (Coordinator of the Centre of Graduated Studies / Ext. 13792);
– Mrs. Telma Vargas (Coordinator of the Human Resources Management Centre / Ext. 13785).

c. Any member/visitor with COVID-19 symptoms should inform one of the people in charge of the Contingency Plan through the contacts mentioned above and follow the Contingency Plan Flow Chart, shown in the IE-ULisboa site and displayed in several areas of the building.

With a view to contributing to a safer functioning of on-site activities, COVID-19 testing operations will take place on a regular basis, aimed at the ULisboa community, under the coordination of the ULisboa Rectory.

a) the possibility of people moving around freely or with very few limitations on national territory (e.g., the possibility for students to regularly travel to their places of origin and/or residence) and in urban spaces (e.g., the use of transports limited only by the rules of social distancing in use), as well as the possibility of people’s (regulated) access to social and cultural equipment and services and to equipment related to fundamental consumption.

b) the absence of restrictions to the ULisboa campuses and to its main infrastructures (namely, faculty buildings and support structures, such as residences, canteens and libraries).

c) that there are limitations with regard to the gathering of great masses of people and/or groups of people in physically limited spaces, namely classrooms, libraries, computer rooms, study rooms, common circulation and co-presence areas, associated with maintaining restrictive social distancing rules (e.g. keeping a 1-metre distance)

d) ULisboa and its organic units are capable of guaranteeing its communities the health, hygiene and safety conditions that meet the standards established by reference entities.

e) In the current physical conditions of the IE/FP buildings and, above all, considering the classrooms’ capacity, these limitations mean it is impossible to hold on-campus theoretical-practical sessions (the typical form of the curricular units of the IE-ULisboa programmes) with more than 25 students.

a) In each week only half of the students will be able to be at the Faculty’s premises.

b) The classes will be divided in half and each sub-class will come to the Faculty in alternate weeks.

c) Only students who are in their week of classes may remain on the premises of the FP.

d) Classes will be organized according to the spaces available.

e) The measures to be adopted must ensure compliance with the course plan.

f) Ensure, as often as possible throughout the semester, face-to-face contact with all students.

g) Maintain synchronous weekly contact with students.

h) Online classes must take place at the scheduled time, being able to use different methodologies, since they constitute an alternative to the classroom.

i) Plan that allows respecting the specificities of each UC and class size.

j) Maintain the weekly workload of teachers and students, combining online classes, face-to-face and independent work by students.

k) The syllabus must present in detail the teaching, learning and assessment methodologies.

1º Ciclo

a) In the ‘advanced opening’ scenario, will adopt a mixed organization modality for teaching activities in all curricular units with more than 25 enrolled students.

b) The use of this model aims to guarantee the regular occurrence of on-campus teaching activities to all students, though limited by the impossibility of gathering high numbers in the classrooms and other building spaces without putting at risk the health of the IE/FP-ULisboa communities.

c) The theoretical and practical classes of the 1st cycle will be organized in two sub-classes in such a way that each student on-campus work shift for all chairs in the same week.

d) This model should guarantee that all students attend and participate in on-campus activities corresponding to 50% of the sessions programmed for the first semester in each CU.

e) This way of working is characterised by the practical combination of three conditions:
i. classes are divided in half and students from each sub-class will come to the Faculty every other week;
ii. the theoretical classes they take place in on-campus for half the class and are simultaneously transmitted remotely by Zoom to the other half;
iii. the practical classes on-campus work, alternating the weekly presence of students of each class in the institution

f) Theoretical classes should, whenever possible, be recorded in Zoom and be available to students for a period.

g) Implementing this model, based on the adaptation of the CU programme, implies dividing each class in two independent sub-units, and a work rationale that combines, for each sub-unit, sequences of on-campus work and autonomous work.

2nd Cycle and 3rd Cycle

a) In curricular units with less than 20, classes can take place in full classroom mode.

b) In curricular units with more than 20, the mixed teaching modality, described above with the necessary adaptations, applies.

Intership and Dissertation Seminar

Dissertation seminars and internship supervisions can take place exclusively online.

III. Conditions for supporting academic work

a) During the first semester of 2020/2021, the Library and computer rooms will be open to students, albeit with limited access.

b) Access to the Library will be restrained to a smaller number of users, depending on the need to apply social distancing rules and the hygiene conditions inside. A regime of shifts or maximum periods of stay may be adopted.

c) The number of workstations in the computer room will be smaller in order to safeguard social distancing inside and according to the space’s conditions of ventilation.

d) Sanitising material will be placed at the entrance and inside all these spaces.

TimeTables

In order to reduce concurrent presences in the building and different spaces, IE and FP have harmonised aspects regarding weekly and daily timetables, including start and end times of classes and breaks, to foster the asynchronous attendance of common spaces, such as the bar, canteen and library.

a) The bar and the canteen will work in compliance with the measures issued by the relevant authorities for this sector of activity.

b) Given the limited access and use of these spaces, due to these rules, adjacent external spaces will be created, where meals can be eaten while complying with the expected rules of distancing and hygiene.

a) Only teaching and research staff, non-teaching staff, students and service providers from FP and IE can access the building. Exceptionally, people can also access by invitation of teaching and non-teaching staff.

b) Mandatory use of individual protection equipment, namely community masks, by everyone.

c) Keeping a minimum physical distance – 1 m between people, both when in movement and when using spaces.

d) Guaranteed cleaning, disinfection and ventilation of spaces for use, at suitable intervals.

e) Encouraging remote meetings, namely meetings of Master’s and PhD juries, selection boards in tenders, related to higher education teaching careers and the scientific research career, public tests and meetings of governing and managing bodies.

f) The presence of any element of the academic community in the IE/FP space is limited by exercising ‘self-monitoring’, and this is to be respected by everyone. Whoever manifests Covid 19 symptoms should refrain from being present.

a) A pedido dos próprios, pessoas associadas aos grupos de risco – tal como regularmente determinados pelas DGS (e.g., pessoas com doenças crónicas ou com compromisso do sistema imunitário) – podem, preferencialmente, desenvolver as atividades letivas apenas em regime à distância, by means of a medical certificate that specifies and proves the impossibility of teaching in person.

b) In these cases, and with respect to teachers, it is recommended that the Distribution of Teaching Staff (2020/2021) encompasses solutions that allow teaching activities to be shared, so that the existence of regular on-campus activities is maximised.