November is Diversity and Inclusion Month at NOVA

3 de November, 2025

November 1st – November 30th

  

  • Video release “NOVA for Inclusion – Real People, Real Impact” | NOVA’s Equality and Inclusion Office Audiovisual Support Unit 

  • Date to be confirmed (november)

Awareness campaign for the inclusion of people with disabilities in the labor market |

Nova SBE – Digital channels
More information coming soon 

  • November 4th

Webinar “Promoting Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the leadership of HEI in Europe – the case of ULEAD4ALL” |

10h00
Alessia Lorenzon (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) e Frederico Cavazzini (NOVA)
Open to the public. Zoom link here. 

  • November 6 th 

Podcast NOVA Talk “inclusion in higher education”

Margarida Lima Rego (Dean NOVA School of Law) and Vanda Nunes (SCML – Valor T) |
Communication and Image Division
NOVA’s Rectorate – Digital channels 

Workshop “Careers with Impact” (Undergraduate). DE&I module |

11h00-12h30
Nova SBE, Carcavelos Campus 

Webinar “Mood Disorders”. PIN, Partners In Neuroscience |

11h00-12h30
Nova SBE, Carcavelos Campus – Online
Open to the public, subject to prior registration. 

  • November 10 th 

Workshop “Conversations With Gestures” – Portuguese Sign Language awareness initiative |

NOVA’s Equality and Inclusion Office. Moderated by Filipa Abreu (NOVA’s Strategic Planning Division)
14h00-15h00
NOVA’s Rectorate – Atrium
Open to the public 

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These tutorials have been developed with the aim of promoting fairer and more inclusive access to the job market. They do this by sharing tips and strategies to support preparation for the various stages of the recruitment process.

Presentation

Complete playlist of tutorials

 

Meeting of the Inclusive Community Forum (ICF)
17h00-19h00
Nova SBE, Carcavelos Campus
Open to the public, but subject to prior registration.

  • Until November 10 th
     

Project “A Thick Cloud of Love”. Queer theses, antitheses, and syntheses | 

Curated by Pedro Faro
NOVA’s Rectorate – Atrium
Open to the public 

  • November 11th 

Mobile unit for rapid, anonymous, confidential and free screening of sexually transmitted diseases |

10h30-16h30
NuPRIDE NOVA FCT and Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos (GAT)
NOVA FCT – By the library
Open to the public 

  • November 12 th
     

Speakers’ Corner “Socioeconomic Background” |

Ana Balcão Reis e Bernardo Escada
10h15-11h15 

Nova SBE, Carcavelos Campus – KPMG Hall
Open to the public 

  • November 13 th  

Workshop “Teach To Include: How To Guide Students In Distress for Professors and TAs” |

11h00-12h30
Nova SBE, Carcavelos Campus 

  • November 17 th 

Workshop “Anxiety Toolbox for Students” |

11h00-12h00
Nova SBE, Carcavelos Campus – Online
Open to the public, subject to prior registration 

Workshop: Communication Blockages |

NOVA FCT and NOVA FCT Theatre Group
16h00-18h00
NOVA FCT Campus – Room TBC
For the NOVA FCT Mentoring Program community 

  • November 18th 

Open class: ‘Inclusive legal spaces: Mental Health as a Priority” | Prof. Soraya Schickel (NSL) and Dr Raquel Sampaio (Mental Health Association)

14:00–16:00
NOVA School of Law, Room 7

  • November 19th 

Inclusion Party: Painting workshop, music and snacks |  Marta Xavier (NOVA School of Law)

13:00
NOVA School of Law, Room 7 and Human Rights Courtyard
Open to the public, but prior registration required.

Workshop “Recycling DE&I” (Staff & Faculty) |  

11h00-12h00
Nova SBE, Carcavelos Campus 

  • November 20th  

Workshop “Careers with Impact” (Undergraduate). DE&I module 

11h00-12h30
Nova SBE, Carcavelos Campus 

  • November 21st 

‘Thinking About the Student’ Conference

Promoted by SASNOVA
9:30 a.m.
NOVA FCSH, Auditorium B1
Open to the entire academic community.
More information is available here

Conference “Let’s Talk About The Right For Participation of Children with Disabilities” | 

14h00-17h30
NOVA School of Law – Classroom 7
Open to the public 

Collaboration protocol with the Association Network for LGBTI Diversity and Inclusion

3:00 pm
University Circle Room

Signed by:
João Mattamouros Resende, President of REDI
Professor Elsa Peralta, Vice-Dean for Culture, Communities and Social Impact

  • November 24t

Workshop “Anxiety Toolbox for Students” |

11h00-12h00
Nova SBE, Carcavelos Campus – Online
Open to the public, subject to prior registration
 

Workshop “Teach To Include: How To Guide Students In Distress for Staff” |

14h30-16h00
Nova SBE, Carcavelos Campus 

  • November 25th 

Awareness Poster on Sexual, Gender-Based Violence and Discrimination |

NOVA Refugee and Migration Clinic and NOVA School of Law
On display until December 10th | Venue TBC 

  • November 26th

Webinar “EU-Turkey Relations on Migration and Asylum: A Decolonial Perspective” [SPEAR] 

14h30-16h00
NOVA School of Law 

Roundtable “Queertalk” 

NuPRIDE NOVA FCT
16h00-18h00
NOVA FCT – Place TBC
Open to the public 

  • November 27th

Workshop: ‘Conscientious Objection in Healthcare: Understanding the Impact of Gender” |NOVA Centre for the Study of Gender, Family and Law and ICON-S Portugal

5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
NOVA School of Law – Room to be announced

Seminar on E-Mentoring and Mental Health of Students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) 

SASNOVA
Venue and time TBC 

Conference “50 Years of Foreign Policy of Portuguese-Speaking African Countries” |African and Lusophone Studies Student Association, NOVA FCSH and IPRI-NOVA

10h00-17h00
NOVA FCSH, Avenida de Berna Campus – Classroom TBC
Open to the public 

Webinar “Anxiety Disorders”. PIN, Partners In Neuroscience |

11h00-12h30
Nova SBE, Carcavelos Campus – Online
Open to the public, subject to prior registration