The Rectory of the University of Minho presented on May 22, a set of recommendations for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching, learning and assessment.

The session took place at 3:30 pm, on the Gualtar campus, in Braga, and also included the presentation of success stories in the integration of AI in an educational context and a moment of debate open to the public. The moment was attended by the Rector, Pedro Arezes, the Vice-Rector for Education and Academic Organization, Cristina Dias, and the Vice-Rector for Institutional Modernization, Nuno Castro.

The Rector’s Team defined, among the first measures of its Action Programme, to appoint in January a working group with the mission of establishing general institutional recommendations for the good use of AI (Order RT-32/2026). The group was formed by Professors Rui Lima, Dalila Durães and Paulo Novais, from the School of Engineering; Miguel Portela, from the School of Economics, Management and Political Science; Nuno Osório, from the School of Medicine; and Sílvia Araújo, from the School of Letters, Arts and Human Sciences.

This new guide for the responsible use of AI – which will be made available online to the entire Academy – does not intend to restrict the use of technological resources in teaching, learning and assessment processes, but rather to define rules and good practices in this area, with guidelines for students, teachers and researchers in academic work.

Higher education institutions are at national and international level in a continuous process of incorporating emerging technologies, in particular AI. The phenomenon is not limited to the replacement of analogue methods by digital solutions. It implies, in fact, a paradigm shift that forces us to rethink pedagogical models, evaluation strategies, forms of production and dissemination of knowledge, as well as the very principles of equity, access and ethics that guide the university mission.