Prof. Pedro Teixeira, Secretary of State for Higher Education of Portugal, answers the following questions with their sub-questions: 1. How do you imagine the Higher Education Institutions of the future?, a. What teaching and assessment methodologies do you mostly imagine?, and b. Which learning technologies do you think will prevail?; 2. How will the students of the future differ from those of today? (demands, expectations,...); 3. How will online / remote assessment methodologies affect learning practices in STEM, differently depending on the gender? (students / faculty), and the studies typology? and at the end Will it be different in STEM studies from the rest?