Abstract:

Introduction:
In recent years, the University of La Laguna (ULL) has developed a set of actions linked to innovation in the context of the improvement of the teaching quality. Among them are the calls for projects of educational innovation.
With these calls, the ULL aims to support initiatives that, in teaching, are carried out in their centres and departments in the field of educational innovation, in order to improve the teaching activity by guaranteeing the levels of quality and excellence necessary for an adequate training and student training. The objective to achieve is to promote the realization of new innovative actions aimed at correcting gaps or weaknesses detected in the teaching-learning process or optimize their potential, through the timely introduction of methodological, organizational and technological innovations, susceptible to be incorporated into the ordinary development of teaching, motivating its continuous improvement.

Methodology:
All the data used in this article were extracted from the information provided on the website of the ULL. The documents of the different calls were analyzed (modalities, thematic area, etc.) from the 2013/2014 academic year to the current one. In addition, the requests submitted were analyzed, as well as the number of requests admitted and denied, the type of project proposed, the projects admitted definitively and the economic amount assigned.

Results and conclusions:
Based on the analysis of the data of the calls, extracted from the website of the university of La Laguna, the optimal participation in the calls for educational innovation projects is massive, with more than a hundred proposals in each of the calls were presented, which denotes the interest of teachers to incorporate new methodological strategies to their teaching.
In addition, it has been observed that in the first calls only two project modalities were offered (A and B); while in the last one a third was added (C). This third is related to “Projects presented within the framework of a consolidated group of educational innovation registered in the Official Register of Groups Consolidated of Educational Innovation of the ULL, that have as subject subjects or groups of subjects of one or several official degrees of degree or postgraduate that are taught in it”. An increase in the number of thematic areas offered was also observed.
In the current context of the systematization of quality improvement processes in higher education, it is necessary to continue promoting innovation projects, in their different lines and development actions, strengthening the actions undertaken by them with the objective of which they remain in the time integrating in the teaching activity of university departments and university centres.

Keywords:

Educational innovation, teaching innovation, university.