Presentation of the University of Wrocław medal to Prof. Maria E. Duarte
On 22.11.2023, in the Aula Leopoldina of the University, the Wrocław Medal was presented to Prof. Maria E. Duarte.
Prof. Maria Eduarda Duarte is a world-renowned professor of psychology, focusing her research on career guidance issues, collaborating with the University of Wroclaw since 2011.
From 2018 to 2022, she was the Head of the UNESCO Lifelong Guidance and Counseling International Chair at the Institute of Pedagogy at the University of Wrocław.
Her professional career is linked to the University of Lisbon, where she pursued her research career as a professor in the Department of Psychology and Education. Since 2008, she has also simultaneously worked as Visiting Professor at the University of Sao Paolo, Brazil.
She has authored and co-authored 5 monographs on counselling psychology and diagnostic tools in career counselling. She has published more than 50 articles in reputed scientific journals. She has also authored many chapters in scientific books, encyclopaedic entries, methodological publications for counsellors, research reports and materials prepared for the Ministry of Education in Portugal. She actively participates in scientific conferences.
From 2008 to 2014, she was director of the National Guidance Institute in Lisbon. She has coordinated a number of international research projects Career Adaptability: models and measures (carried out in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam, CNAM in Paris, Norteastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Centre for Research in Psychology, University of Iceland and the University of Pretoria); Career Adaptability in adults and contexts of employment and unemployment in Portugal and Brazil (with the University of Rio Grande do Sul), as well as Career guidance and Development of Human Resources at the Psychology Research Centre at the University of Lisbon.
In 2004 and 2008, prof. M. E. Duarte was also the scientific coordinator in two national recruitment processes for new diplomats at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal.
Prof. M. E. Duarte has also served on the editorial and scientific boards of several journals since 1995: Revista Portuguesa de Psicologia (Portugal), Psychologica (Portugal), L’Orientation Scolaire et Professionelle (France), the Career Development Quarterly (USA), Psicologia: reflexão e Crítica (Brazil), Revista Brasileira de Orientação profissional (Brazil), International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, Revista Iberoamericana de Evaluación y Diagnóstico Psicológico, Counseling: Giornale Italiano di Ricerca e Applicazioni (Italy), Spanish Journal of Psychology (Spain), Studia Poradoznawcze (Journal of Counselogy – Poland), British Journal of Guidance and Counseling (Great Britain).
Prof. M. E. Duarte is a member of the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance, the European Society for Vocational Designing and Career Counseling, the Portuguese Society of Psychology and the Professional Association of Portuguese Psychologists. Together with M. L. Savickas and J. Guichard she created the International Life Design Research Group, which developed a new model of work in career counselling, which is now applied in the work of counsellors all over the world, also in Poland.
Prof. M. E. Duarte’s collaboration with the Institute of Pedagogy began in 2011 in Padua, during the founding meeting of the International Association of Counselling Researchers European Society for Vocational Designing and Career Counseling, in which also participated the staff of the Institute of Pedagogy of the University of Wrocław.
Since 2013, prof. M. E. Duarte has been a guest and speaker at 4 international scientific conferences and 10 scientific seminars organised by the UNESCO Chair, giving extensive support to the numerous scientific publications published at the Chair.
Since 2016, she has represented the University of Lisbon in the academic UNITWIN NETWORK „Life designing interventions (counseling, guidance, education) for decent work and sustainable development”, coordinated by the Chair.
In addition, thanks to the invitation of Prof M.E. Duarte, pedagogy students preparing to become counsellors and adult educators were able to participate in study visits to the University of Lisbon (2019) and Coimbra (2022). These visits were an opportunity for them to meet leading Portuguese researchers such as Prof Duarte, Prof Isabel Janeiro, Prof Luis Curral (Dean of the Faculty of Psychology), Dr Isabel do Vale, Dr Rute Agostinho, Dr Helena Lourenco and specialist practitioners.
To summarise the main outcomes of the collaboration with Prof Duarte, it is important to highlight her contribution to:
- international transfer of knowledge and innovation through the promotion of modern knowledge in the field of educational and vocational guidance and career counselling and inspiring innovative solutions in the Polish model of career guidance;
- dissemination of knowledge in the community of counsellors and teachers through scientific seminars, open lectures and workshops;
- integration of the international community of researchers dealing with education, assistance and career guidance;
- promoting our University as an attractive place to study, where students can benefit from lectures delivered by world-renowned scholars, thus enabling better preparation for life in a world marked by permanent change;
- promoting the University of Wrocław in the international arena.
We invite you to view photos from the event.
Translated by Bartłomiej Dłubak (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
