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Advancing solar cooking: challenges, innovations, and future directions

Challenge-based innovation: a co-design challenge development proposal in an im...

In a context where social, environmental and economic challenges require innovative and collaborative responses, Challenge-Based Innovation emerges as an approach that promotes the development of concrete solutions through co-creation processes between multiple local and institutional agents. Within this framework, the Working Envisioning (WE) project fostered the implementation of challenge-based innovation pr...

Strategic Co-Design for Territorial Innovation: Defining Challenges within WE

This paper explores a strategic co-design process undertaken in the rural municipality of Miranda do Douro, Portugal, aimed at formulating locally grounded innovation challenges. Situated within the framework of a broader initiative [blinded for peer-review], the study highlights the preparatory phase prior to student involvement, emphasizing how collaborative methodologies shaped a community responsive innovat...

Empirical Validation of the Dart Model in University Business Collaboration: We...

Higher Education faces significant challenges, including internationalization (Msomphora, 2025), digital transformation - in particular the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into traditional methods and cybersecurity (Parambil et al., 2024), students increasing expectations (Amanzhol et al., 2024), pressure for higher alumni employability rates (Schueller, 2023), the increased need of interdisciplinar...

Primary bile acid shapes peripheral immunity in inflammatory bowel disease-asso...

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic cholestatic liver disease often associated with underlying inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This study investigates how PSC predisposes individuals to altered inflammatory immune responses compared with IBD alone. A case–control study was conducted with a cohort of 75 patients, including 16 with PSC (14 with concomitant IBD), 39 with IBD alone, and 20 controls....

Skin mucus and blood plasma as non-lethal sources of malnutrition protein bioma...

Developing dietary formulations for aquaculture that meet nutritional requirements is essential to production, as nutrition is key for fish growth and health. However, novel dietary formulations may induce malnutrition, which is complex to evaluate and often requires animal sacrifice. Therefore, finding reliable non-lethal biomarkers to diagnose malnutrition in fish is important. This study aimed to obtain vita...

In2CoP 2025 – International Conference on Co-creation Processes in Higher Educa...

Bragança Polytechnic University | Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, in the third edition of In2CoP, under the title “Conference on International Cooperation in Higher Education – Multicultural Co-creation for Future Societies”, focused this year on multicultural co-creation to develop skills for the societies of the future, particularly entrepreneurial and creative skills enriched by cross-cultural perspective...

Learning through challenge-based innovation in a rural context: the students’ p...

This study explores an immersive Challenge-Based Innovation experience developed in Miranda do Douro, a rural municipality in Portugal. Through interdisciplinary and multicultural student teams, the initiative promoted co-creation with local stakeholders around real-world challenges. The qualitative methodology employed a combination of evocation, symbolic representation, audiovisual reflection, and peer evalua...

Proceedings of In2CoP 2024 - International Conference on Co-creation Processes ...

Co-creating Innovation have long been integral to the mission of Bragança Polytechnic University | Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, underpinning our commitment to fostering future-oriented higher education that addresses the complex challenges of the world of work. Within STARS EU, our Strategic Alliance for Regional Transition funded in the European Universities Initiative, we've adopted a pedagogical approa...

Higher education, active learning, co-creation, innovation, and contribution to...

This chapter explores how higher education institutions (HEIs) that use active learning methodologies and promote co-creative and innovative environments can contribute significantly to regional development. The authors carried out a bibliometric analysis, considering the works published in journals indexed in the Scopus database for this purpose. The study aims to measure the scientific production of active te...