The Entrepreneurial University and the Training for Innovation of the New Generations

Practices of using active methodologies as facilitating tools in the teaching-learning process in higher education are increasing, especially in bioengineering courses. The university is a good model for facilitating the implementation of innovative processes due to its role and proximity to science, teaching and research. To embrace this challenge, the university is reaching a broader interaction with the community, from the area of scientific education that includes the awakening of children to science and research. Thus, this article reports on the pilot experience of the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Autonomic Function of the Cardiovascular Center of the University of Lisbon, in the approach of different academic and scientific knowledge together with society as a means to stimulate the pleasure of science and research in children.