RIMA Project: Activities and Initiatives Communion and Sharing in Educational Innovation at UPC-BARCELONATECH

Abstract The RIMA project (Research and Innovation in Learning Methodologies, http://www.upc.edu/rima) is a proposal from Education Science Institute (ICE) of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC-BARCELONA TECH ). The aim of this project is to become a forum for sharing experiences between Communities of Practice (C of P) related to innovation teaching, learning methodologies, or generic research skills in engineering education. Gradually, several professors and C of P have been incorporated during this time, setting up a work map on teaching innovation areas and main items developed in our university. Last years, in parallel with Bologna process in from ICE-UPC (BARCELONA- TECH ), RIMA Project was designed for keep together, in a virtual common space, all the Communities of Practice (C of P) related to skills and abilities. In this paper, by analyzing RIMA C of P map, relating to technical degrees taught in UPC-BARCELONA TECH , consolidated research areas in educational innovation can be identified, related to skills and knowledge areas, in order to help improvement in teaching and learning. The RIMA project has been identified as an innovative and helpful initiative, in technical universities ambit.