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Helena Kovacs

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Helena is a social scientist with an appetite for a wide variety of topics related to education. In her role as the Project manager for transversal skills, she is responsible for preparing, implementing and assessing transversal skills across EPFL, both in curricular and extracurricular learning environments and in co-construction with multiple stakeholders, including teachers and other staff, students and employers.In her previous work, she was focusing on exploring changes in teaching methods and approaches, strategies of adaptability, and pedagogical innovations at EPFL. This body of work included a better understanding of teaching and learning transversal skills, as well as discussing different practices of knowledge sharing and institutional change.She obtained her PhD as a recipient of the Marie Curie fellowship in the European Doctorate for Teacher Education (EDITE) as a joint degree between Hungary and Portugal where she examined teacher learning in innovative schools. Her Master's degree was an Erasmus Mundus joint degree in Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management, and for her Bachelor, she did studies in Community Youth Work and non-formal education. Education PhD in Education | Educational sciences 2019 – 2019 EÃ¶tvÃ¶s LorÃ nd UniversityUniversity of Lisbon Master in Sociology of Education | Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management 2011 – 2011 Aarhus UniversityUniversity of Deusto Bachelor of Science | Community Youth Work(Non-formal Education) 2007 – 2007 JÃ¶nkÃ¶ping University Teaching & PhD Courses Comment enseigner la durabilité I HUM-489 Get involved in sustainability education by exploring learning theories, facilitation, and reflection on the education ecosystem that will help you develop your mindset, knowledge and skills to teach complex problems in the sustainability course for Bachelor students (ENV-101). Comment enseigner la durabilité II HUM-496 In this semester-long group project, you will explore teaching practices within a large-scale sustainability course. Observation, problem formulation and group preparation and reflection on teaching sustainability will help you develop strategies to support learning of complex problems. Interdisciplinary seminar series ENG-647 This course focuses on interdisciplinary research communication through dynamic presentations, feedback, and collaboration with diverse audiences. Supervising Students in Projects ENG-633 The combination of practical and reflective activities in this course provide participants with evidence-informed teaching skills for supervising and evaluating students working on projects.

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