IDEA – Innovative Teaching Laboratory was established as part of the 2018-2022 Excellence Project of the Department of Law in order to promote and implement new teaching and learning methods in the study of law – both for students and teaching staff -, to innovate study methods, and to enhance the use of technologically advanced tools, also promoting internationalisation and interdisciplinarity.

The IDEA Lab also aims to enhance the relationship between teaching and research, as well as to promote the use and the availability of teaching and learning tools for the third-mission activities of the Department in terms of continuing education, use of research outputs, and development of employment opportunities.

The IDEA Lab supports the organisation of conferences and national and international seminars on the topics that are relevant to the Project, and provides opportunities for training and professional updating for teaching staff and researchers in the field of the innovative teaching, thus promoting a culture of innovation in law. The IDEA Lab collaborates with the IUSTeC Centre in fostering innovation in the following fields of study: teaching and learning methods in the study of law, new technologies, decision-making processes, socio-economic and cultural changes.