We have a date on the 11th and the 12th of September 2024, at 10.00am at IPCA Campus, in Barcelos.
We are happy to have you with us on this new journey. Get ready for an incredible year of learning, growth and new friendships.
To start with the righht foot, we prepared the Welcome Week
Ready?
September 11th (Wednesday)
| 10:00 am | Meeting and welcome at the International Office | Building P |
| 12:30 pm | Picnic lunch | |
| 2:30 pm – 4:30pm | Team UP – 30 years, 30 challenges |
September 12th (Thursday)
| 10:00 am | Team UP – 30 years, 30 challenges | |
| 12:30 pm | Picnic lunch | |
| 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Team UP – 30 years, 30 challenges | |
| 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm | HappyHour – Food, Drinks and DJ |
September 13th (Friday) or the following week
Meetings with Mobility Coordinators (to be scheduled by the Coordinators)
Don be scared! We are not giving you homework yet!
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This is the activities chronogram, we have 30 challenges (hence 30 columns – on the bellow table you can check each of the challenges).
And we have 30 teams (G1 to G30). You will be included in one of the teams and after that, you only have to be able to complete the 30 challenges. Why 30? Because IPCA celebrates its 30th anniversary and you are already part of its history!
All the challenges will be scored by your group’s volunteers or by the person in charge in each of the stations where the challenges will take place. The team that concludes all the challenges with the highest score will win the “Team UP – 30 years, 30 challenges”.
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| A1 | Discover social support | Each team throws a giant dice and, depending on the topic selected, questions are asked and the students find out about social support. | 📍Social Services main door – external area | 5/7 min |
| A2 | Learn more about mental health | Quiz | 📍 Phychology Office in the Social Services Building | 5/7 min |
| A3 | Library book hunt | Exploring the physical space of the library by associating the search of thematic books; The students will go through the shelves, searching for 3 books according to the thematica areas of their Schools; Example: According to their School, the students must find 3 books from their area, in the given time | 📍 Library | 10/15 min |
| A4 | I Add Value, and you? | Word search: students will have to find 7 words related to volunteering. | 📍Building A – meeting room | 10 min |
| A5 | Car Racing | Participants will test their driving skills by driving a racing car on a simulator. The task ends after driving two laps around the track, within the maximum time limit set for the activity, to try and win a place on the podium! | 📍 EST Hallway | 5/10 min |
| A6 | You will be a wolf… Will you be able to overcome various obstacles in an endless race? | Participants will play a digital game of a wolf jumping over obstacles and will be scored for the maximum number of obstacles they can jump over in two game attempts (1 point for each obstacle overcome with a maximum total score limit of 10 points). | 📍 EST Hallway | 5/10 min |
| A7 | Discover the Mystery Word! | Participants will find a set of letters scattered across the doors of EST classrooms and laboratories! Participants must organize the letters found to try to discover the “Mystery Word!” | 📍 The challenge begins in classroom N of EST. EST Classrooms and Laboratories | 10 min |
| A8 | EU Flag Finder | With the flags arranged in a ‘U’ shape, the participants will be placed in the center, with the goal of identifying the flags of 10 EU Member States | 📍 Exterior area between Building A and Building P | 10 min |
| A9 | Find out your degree | Papers with the names of IPCA’s degree programmes will be placed on a table. Each team must collect only the papers with the names of the degree courses of their respective members in the allotted time, using a straw. The score is awarded according to the time taken and the fulfilment of the task. | 📍 ESG Hallway | 5 min |
| A10 | Logoestafeta | Similar to the broken telephone, the 10 participants form a line, all with their backs to each other. The last member receives the image of the IPCA logo and must draw it on the paper on the back of the next member. The image must be drawn on the next element until it reaches the element at the beginning of the queue. At the end, the closest resemblance to the requested image is compared and a score is awarded to each team. | 📍 ESG | 10 min |
| A11 | Quiz ‘What do you know about the IPCA?’ | The teams will be involved in a digital quiz based on the theme ‘what do you already know about IPCA?’. Points will be awarded to each team according to the number of correct answers. | 📍 ESG (Auditorium 1) | 10 min |
| A12 | Group balance | All the group elements should maintain balanced a broomstick using only their pointed index fingers. The idea is to be quick getting the broomstick to the ground, departing from the chest of the taller group element. | 📍 ESHT Lobby | 5 min |
| A13 | Several hands drawing | Operating a marker pulled by several threads, the students will be challenged to draw the logo of the School of Tourism and Hospitality. Will we have artists? | 📍 ESHT Lobby | 10 min |
| A14 | The biggest tower | Paper cups will be operated by elastics and threads attached. Each group should move each paper cup, pilling up them in order to construct the highest tower. However, if the tower goes down… | 📍 ESHT Lobby | 10 min |
| A15 | Find the Flags | There are several flags in the corridor of Building P, the students have to find out, from the RUN-Eu 2.0 countries, how many flags are on the corridor. | 📍 P Building – Hallway | 5 min |
| A16 | Erasmus+ Countries | The students have to find out on how many countries they can do Erasmus+ mobility. “One by one, you will find them all pinned down in Building P.” We have a mapa mundi on one of the walls and the countries will be pinne ddown there. | 📍 P Building – Hallway | 5 min |
| A17 | Stencil Modular | Using a modular matrix and the stencil technique, each team must build a shape/logo for their identification. | 📍 ESHT (Room D2) | 10 min |
| A18 | Drawing Challenge | Students are challenged to draw their own sneaker in a template printed on A4 and where the main elements that make it up will ultimately be evaluated if represented (sole, tongue, laces, etc.) | 📍 ESHT (Room D4) | 10 min |
| A19 | Short Film | Short film projection and memory exercise. Each team will have to pay attention to the film exhibition, memorizing as many details as possible and, In the end, answer questions related with the film. | 📍 EST – Audiovisual Lab | 10 min |
| A20 | What does it say here HEXatamente? | Using the hexadecimal language (provided on an A4 sheet), the students will have to decipher the codes given and arrive at the word “eduroam”. | 📍B Building – Information Systems Division | 10 min |
| A21 | Pitch Perfect | Two activities: Challenge The group should make a pitch presentation to “sell us” a certain product. 3 min preparation 2.30 min Pitch 5 members are needed and each member must take on a role/bathe on a perspective regarding the product: financial, design, legal, marketing, human resources, innovation and research, sustainability, infrastructure, commercial, communication (you must choose 5). Each team member has 30 seconds to add that perspective to the story. Reflection Let’s imagine the following problem. G3E is a relevant service, both in terms of getting graduates into the job market and in terms of developing students’ skills. We have websites, we send emails, we have facebook, we have instagram, we have linkedin… However, many students still don’t know us and don’t use our services. On October 7, 8 and 9 we’re organizing a Job Fair, an event of considerable importance for students of all years and all courses. What will be the best way to communicate the event and mobilize the academic community? Note: creativity and feasibility will be the main weighting factors! | 📍P Building – Meeting Room | 10 min |
| A22 | Be an associative leader (AAIPCA) | The group will have to perform an activity where they’ll face a challenge/dilema and get into the skin of an associative leader, having to make an important decision. | 📍 AAIPCA | 10 min |
| A23 | Organize your own IPCALIZA-TE | In this activity, the group will have to plan their own freshmen reception week, including the artists poster and all the logistic involved. | 📍 AAIPCA | 5/10 min |
| A24 | What is an Academic Group? | The group will have the opportunity to participate in a workshop and understand what it’s like to be part of a “tuna”. | 📍 Academic Groups | 5 min |
| A25 | Tuna and Academy | In this activity, the group will play a game in order to get to know some of the work the members of the “tuna” do in the Academy and in their day to day of rehearsals and festivals. | 📍 Academic Groups | 5 min |
| A26 | Academic Groups and Music | In this activity, the group will have contact with various instruments that are used by the “Tuna”. | 📍 Academic Groups | 5 min |
| A27 | Discover the Academic Services | True and false options will be written on a whiteboard. Students will have to select the correct answers about what Academic Services is for. | 📍 B Building – Academic Services | 10 min |
| A28 | How high can you jump? | Each participant will throw a ball, at 5 different times. 2 points will be given to those who reach it and 0 point to those who don’t. Points will be counted individually for competition within the groupand between the groups. | 📍 Canteen – Outdoors | 5/10 min |
| A29 | Click IPCA | Take a photo of the IPCA logo. One student from each group com a public profile on instagram should post the photo on their stories and tag IPCA. The photo should be acompanied by a short and creative sentence about IPCA. | 📍 IPCA Logo | 5 min |
| A30 | Spin+in | Each student has the opportunity to spin the IPCA +IN roulette wheel once and win prizes that strengthen integration, inclusion, internationalization and pedagogical innovation. | 📍 P Building – Gabinete GIPPE | 10 min |
