The Insper Community keeps on focusing its efforts to collaborate in overcoming the challenges of this time
This March, we are experiencing in Brazil the most challenging moment of the pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus, which started a year ago.
Since the beginning of this scenario, we have joined forces for an intense transformation process, aiming at overcoming and mitigating COVID-19’s impacts, besides maintaining our commitment to Insper’s educational mission.
In 2020, the Insper Community developed a series of activities to mitigate the impacts caused by the novel coronavirus. Also, we transformed face-to-face teaching into remote in a week and started to have new dynamics with the work from home. We had bolstered our vocation for innovation in all areas, ensuring excellence in our deliveries and following our mission to develop people, generate knowledge, and improve the country.
In 2021, our Community remains committed to carrying out initiatives to help tackle the challenges imposed by the pandemic. Among them, we highlight the following:
- The launch of the book Legadode uma Pandemia – 26 vozes conversam sobre os aprendizados para política pública (“The Legacy of a Pandemic – 26 voices talk about the lessons learned for public policy,” in a free translation from Portuguese). It is a publication organized by Prof. Laura Müller Machado that brings together articles produced by 26 Insper professors and discusses different lessons from the pandemic for public management. To collaborate with the dissemination of the work, which can be downloaded for free, we held four launch webinars. Find out more details and watch each meeting’s full recording:
March 1 | A ordem social (The social order)
March 2 | A ordem econômica (The economic order)
March 3 | A organização do Estado (The organization of the Central state)
March 4 | A política e a comunicação (Politics and communications).
- Prof. Irineu Gianesi, Insper’s Dean of Academic Affairs, and professors Juliana Massi and Débora Mallet, Coordinators of Insper’s Teaching and Learning Center, launched the book Formação de Professores – No Desenho de Disciplinas e Cursos(“Professor Training for Designing Courses and Programs,” in a free translation). Besides systematizing the work of over several years developing and improving Insper’s faculty, the authors were able to draw on the experience of switching from in-person teaching to remote in one week. They placed tips on this new format throughout the book.
- We keep on preparing content with the aim of helping to face the challenges of this time. Among the highlights are a talk with Prof. Maria Elisa Moreira on how to preserve mental health in times of social distancing; Insper Conhecimento‘sproductions, which continues to intensify its activities to disseminate, clearly and objectively, the most relevant findings from studies and, thus, contribute to the public debate; besides a webinar series contemplating themes in several fields and addressing relevant issues for the pandemic effort. There are more than 240 editions since March 2020.
We emphasize that we will keep on focusing our efforts so that our school continues developing people and generating knowledge with excellence, always aiming for the best for society, the country, and, mainly, for people.
