INSIDE ESTIEM
BOARD ARTICLE
...30th Board members interview their successors.
President: Ines Moreira interviews Luis Viudez
Vice President of Education: Duarte Oliveira interviews Maria Serodio
1) If you could only choose one moment from your ESTIEM journey to remember forever, what
1) What is the number one problem universities
would it be?
have that you think ESTIEM can have an influence on?
I would have to divide it in two different moments. The first was my election as a President of the 31st
I have the perception that universities are not
Board. Little did I know how unusual the times
very good at getting a broad view of IEM in
and what the challenges for the board and all of
Europe and benchmarking with other universities.
the network would be. However, undoubtedly
Usually they know their own reality well and at
it is something I will not forget as it was the
maximum the one of their country or partner
culmination of years of work and devotion to the
universities, but are not able to have a concrete
network. The second one was during my year as a
view on specific differences at a European level.
Regional Coordinator, and moreover, the Leaders’
ESTIEM can certainly help here, as a connector of
workshop in Yildiz was another peak moment of
IEM Europe, since we have been in contact with
my journey.
so many universities in the different countries of our network and beyond for the past 30 years and
2) What should ESTIEM never forget?
started research in IEM related topics.
Above all, the ESTIEM Spirit. It may sound like an
2) Looking back to your ESTIEM journey, what
“obvious” answer but as time goes by, it has been
led you to the position of Vice President of
that everlasting flame of our identity which is
Education?
important to always remember. I think since the beginning I have always drifted 3) How do you want your Board to be
towards the educational side. In fact, my first
remembered?
organized and attended events were Academic Days, and I have always seen value in keeping
I have it clear since the beginning of my mandate:
on learning. After taking part as Department
definitely as the Board that never quitted and that
Coordinator of the Academic Department, it
invested every resource they had in improving and
became clear to me that this was an area I wanted
making ESTIEM a better place.
to develop further in the network. I feel like IEM topics, even though in university they can be quite challenging, in ESTIEM they have a chance to be looked upon in a completely
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