Our approach to Community

• Stay at home or go home while minimizing contact with other people. If on campus, you can go to the isolation room behind the Welcome Desk and from there call the SNS 24 hotline
• Call the SNS 24 hotline for guidance on what to do. Only health authorities can access your situation and advise you accordingly
• Follow the SNS24 advice. If there is suspicion of COVID-19, please keep the School informed of your situation. We will follow-up with you regularly to check how you are feeling
• If you wish to get tested, check the information about the testing protocols below.
• Do not come to campus until you are cleared
• If you are a student, inform faculty in case you need to miss classes and ask for instructions to watch live-streamed classes. If you must miss an exam or assessment, please inform lifeatnova@novasbe.pt, and the team will guide you through the processes
• If you are a faculty member, inform Faculty Affairs to align the best solution in case you must cancel or move  to online classes or adjust vigilance in exams, Inform your students of any changes to classes on your courses
• If you are a staff member, inform your team manager of the situation

• Stay at home or go home while minimizing contact with other people. If on campus, you can go to the isolation room behind the Welcome Desk and take some time to organize yourself. Avoid public transport at all costs
• Isolate yourself and call the SNS24 hotline for guidance, particularly regarding the people you live with. Only health authorities can access your situation and advise you accordingly
• Inform the school of your situation. The pivot team will call you to check on you and better understand your circumstances, namely, to understand if you have been in contact with other members of our community who must be informed (high-risk contact tracing). We will follow up with you regularly
• Ask for a quarantine declaration in case you need to present it to validate your absence from exams or assessments
• Do not go to campus until the health authorities clear you. Typically, the quarantine will last ten days for people with light or no symptoms, guaranteeing that you have at least three days with no symptoms. The doctor that will follow your case will provide you clearance. If you are a student: inform your professors in case you need to miss classes and ask for instructions to watch classes live streamed; if you must miss an exam or assessment please inform lifeatnova@novasbe.pt and we will guide you through the processes
• If you are a faculty member, inform Faculty Affairs to align the best solution in case you must cancel or move to online classes or adjust vigilance in exams, Inform your students of any changes to classes on your courses

• Call SNS24 – First and foremost, you must understand whether the contact you have had with the person who tested positive for COVID-19 is of high or low-risk exposure. Only health authorities can accurately assess the level of risk accurately that you were exposed to and make a recommendation on how to proceed.
  • If the contact was a low risk one, you will most likely be advised to continue with your daily life while self-monitoring your health status, paying extra attention to any potential symptoms
  • If the contact was a high-risk one (check the information about high-risk contacts above), you will most likely be advised to stay in isolation for 14 days. You might also be advised to get tested or not, depending on your situation. The health authorities will regularly check on you, and you might be told to get tested if you present symptoms.
• Inform the school of your situation, so that the Life at Nova team can send you relevant information to guide you and follow-up with you regularly
• If you wish to get tested, you should only do so after seven days after the last contact you had with the infected person before that the probability of a false negative is high. According to the health authorities’ protocol, high-risk contacts must quarantine for 14 days, regardless of a negative test. Check the information about testing protocols below
• Do not come to campus until you’re cleared by health authorities
• If you are a student, inform your course instructors in case you need to miss classes and ask for instructions to watch live-streamed classes. If you must miss an exam or assessment, please inform lifeatnova@novasbe.pt, and the team will guide you through the processes
• If you are a faculty member, inform Faculty Affairs to align the best solution in case you must cancel or move to online classes or adjust vigilance in exams. Inform your students of any changes to classes on your courses

• Let us know of your situation via email or phone for personalized support
• Your pivot team will send detailed information on how to proceed and follow-up on your situation regularly
• In any case, you should stay home until you have more clarity of your situation. If on campus, you can use the isolation room behind the Welcome Desk
• Get in touch with SNS24 and confirm how you should proceed

• According to the health authorities protocol, it is considered a high-risk exposure someone who was with someone who tested positive in the 48h before testing positive or presenting the first symptoms. If you had a high-risk exposure that makes for an unprotected contact, e.g., without a mask, for more than 15min in less than 2 meters Someone with whom you've had contact for more than 15 min, less than 2 meters, face to face, even if wearing a mask Someone with whom you’ve had physical contact
• The health authorities are the best entity to provide accurate support in accessing the level of risk of exposure, so you should call the SNS24 hotline
• If you tested positive, your pivot team will call you to understand what’s your situation and trace the high-risk contacts at our school

• High risk direct contacts are people who have been in situations of high risk of exposure to someone who is positive for COVID-19
• The Life at Nova team will run a survey over the phone to help you identify high-risk contacts you might’ve had at Nova SBE
• The Life at Nova team, and others pivot teams, will reach out to all direct contacts providing information on how to proceed as well as personalized support
• The aim of tracing high risk contacts is to accelerate the process done by the health authorities and guarantee that all risk people are informed and advised as soon as possible, in order to minimize the probability of contagion

Nova SBE has a partnership with Nova Medical School that provides testing for COVID-19 - both PCR and rapid antigen tests - at better conditions for the Nova SBE community. Check below for more information.

In case the  professor needs to be isolated, he/she:

• Informs students about the online classes and sends them the hyperlink
• If TAs need to be isolated, they must coordinate with the course professor who will take over  the classes
• If the professor needs to be isolated, he/she must coordinate with the Program’s Academic Director and inform the Master’s Program Manager

In case students need to be isolated, they:

• Students remain in quarantine and take the exam
  • Life at Nova supports them
  • The Special Requests Team justifies their absence
  • Students contact the professor and ask for alternative evaluation
• Students in quarantine need to attend classes from home
  • Students must contact the professor and ask for a hyperlink to watch the class through live streaming

In case an alternative evaluation is required, the authorization is attributed by the Pedagogical Council. The alternative evaluation (format) is arranged by the Pedagogical Council and the course professor. If the professor needs to miss the exam, he/she should inform Faculty Affairs so that an alternative for proctoring can be found.