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ISLA - Polytechnic Institute of Management and Technology in Vila Nova de Gaia has just celebrated its silver anniversary. With 25 years of existence, it started its activity in 1989 and has been able to draw on the accumulated experience, an image of quality in the area of Higher Education in Portugal. The public image of ISLA is without doubt the one of credibility and trust. We have social and financial sustainability. We have ISLA - Polytechnic Institute of Management and Technology in Vila Nova de Gaia has just celebrated its silver anniversary. With 25 years of existence, it started its activity in 1989 and has been able to draw on the accumulated experience, an image of quality in the area of Higher Education in Portugal. The public image of ISLA is, without doubt, one of credibility and trust. We have social and financial sustainability. We have each time more consistent training supply and quality, truly suited to the market needs, providing an expanding range of opportunities at all levels, based on a strong bond of cooperation with national and international businesses and higher education institutions. What we are now is based on a past full of contributions and creativity of those who have worked here and made ISLA Gaia grow. We are sure that we are on the right track for the full affirmation of ISLA, which is a time-consuming process that has to be undergone safely in a constant adaptation to the changes that are being imposed by the government and by the guidelines of the European Union. The adaptation to the Bologna Process is a clear example of this. Waiting anxiously for the cited date of 2025, the one that symbolized and is the institution's expectations milestone, ISLA-Gaia faces the complex reality of having to prepare itself for a more challenging external environment in the coming years. We can only be proud of the extraordinary progress that we have achieved in the relatively turbulent environment that Portuguese higher education has been experiencing over the last few years. Guiding us through this ambitious vision is the best way to ensure that our institution will be amongst the best, enhancing in all of us proud to belong to ISLA. In this sense, with the contribution of all and with great prospects for success, ISLA will continue its vision for 2025. In response to these challenges, ISLA Gaia adopted the ISLA-Gaia Plan 2025 - a Strategic Plan for its reconstruction and repositioning as a higher education institution of national prestige. Based on the experience and the example of similar institutions of reference, this ambitious plan seeks to maximize the main competitive advantages of ISLA-Gaia, as well as taking advantage of partnerships in which it will integrate. The Polytechnic Institute of Management and Technology's objectives (ISLA Gaia) are Stimulating cultural creation and scientific and entrepreneurial spirit development, as well as reflective thinking. Training graduates in different fields of knowledge qualified to integrate into the various professional sectors. Participating in the development of society and contributing to their continuing education. Encouraging research and scientific research aimed at the development of science and technology, humanities and arts, and the creation and dissemination of culture, and developing the understanding of the integration of man with the environment. Promoting the spread of cultural, scientific, and technical knowledge, which constitutes the heritage of humanity and communicating knowledge through teaching, publications, or other forms of communication. Encouraging the desire for constant cultural and professional development, integrating the skills that are being acquired in an intellectual framework and systematizing knowledge of each generation, in education throughout life and generational and inter-generational investment, aiming to perform the formation process Diario da Republica, 2nd Series on October 2009. Encouraging knowledge of the world's problems, from a global perspective, in particular regional, national and European, providing specialized services to the community and establishing a reciprocal relationship. Establishing cooperation with national and international companies and organizations, making employability and participation in research and development projects of its students and graduates easier. Promoting association or cooperation agreements with public or private, domestic or foreign educational and research institutions, through network integration, encouraging students', graduates' and teachers' mobility, and establishing common partnerships and projects, including joint degrees or facility or equipment program sharing. Continuing cultural and vocational training of citizens for the promotion of appropriate cultural extension forms. Encouraging artistic, cultural, and scientific activities, promoting practical spaces, and supporting the development of extracurricular skills, both on collective and social participation. Supporting student associations, providing the necessary conditions for the affirmation of autonomous associations set up by the legislation in use. Promoting and valuing the Portuguese language and culture by encouraging relations with Portuguese-speaking countries. Promoting critical thinking and freedom of expression and research. Consequently oriented to the offer of solid scientific training, through the articulation of studying, teaching, research, and experimental development, the education aims at the creation, transmission, and dissemination of culture, knowledge, science, and technology.ach time more consistent training supply and quality, truly suited to the market needs, providing an expanding range of opportunities at all levels, based on strong bond of cooperation with national and international businesses and higher education institutions. What we are now is based on a past full of contributions and creativity of those who have worked here and made ISLA Gaia grow. We are sure that we are on the right track for the full affirmation of ISLA, which is a time consuming process that has to be undergone safely in a constant adaptation to the changes that are being imposed by the government and by the guidelines of the European Union. The adaptation to the Bologna Process is a clear example of this. Waiting anxiously for the cited date of 2025, the one that symbolized and is the institution's expectations milestone, ISLA-Gaia faces the complex reality of having to prepare itself for a more challenging external environment in the coming years. We can only be proud of the extraordinary progress that we have achieved in the relatively turbulent environment that the Portuguese higher education has been experiencing over the last years. Guiding us through this ambitious vision, this is the best way to ensure that our institution will be amongst the best, enhancing in all of us proud to belong to ISLA. In this sense, with the contribution of all and with great propects for success, ISLA will continue its vision for 2025. In response to these challenges, ISLA Gaia adopted the ISLA-Gaia Plan 2025 - a Strategic Plan for its reconstruction and repositioning as a as a higher education institution of national prestige. Based on the experience and on the example of similar institutions of reference, this ambitious plan seeks to maximize the main competitive advantages of ISLA-Gaia, as well as taking advantage of partnerships in whch it will integrate. The Polytechnic Institute of Management and Technology's objectives (ISLA Gaia) are Stimulating cultural creation and scientific and entrepreneurial spririt development, as well as reflective thinking. Training graduates in different fields of knowledge, qualified to integrate in the various professionals sectors. Participating in the development of society and contributing to their continuing education. Encouraging research and scientific research aimed at the development of science and technology, humanities and arts, and the creation and dissemination of culture and developing the understanding of integration of man with the environment. Promoting the spread of cultural, scientific and technical knowledge, which constitutes the heritage of humanity and communicating knowledge through teaching, publications or other forms of communication. Encouraging the desire for constant cultural and professional development, integrating the skills that are being acquired in an intellectual framework and systematizing knowledge of each generation, in education throughout life and generational and inter-generational investment, aiming to perform the formation process Diario da Republica, 2nd Series on October 2009. Encouraging knowledge of the world's problems, from a global perspective, in particular regional, national and European, providing specialized services to the community and establishing a reciprocal relationship. Establishing cooperation with national and international companies and organizations, making employability and participation in research and development projects of its students and graduates easier. Promoting association or cooperation agreements with public or private, domestic or foreign educational and research institutions, through network integration, encouraging students', graduates' and teachers' mobility and establishing common partnerships and projects, including joint degrees or facility or equipment program sharing. Continuing cultural and vocational training of citizens for the promotion of appropriate cultural extension forms. Encouraging artistic, cultural and scientific activities, promoting practical spaces and supporting the development of extracurricular skills, both on a collective and social participation. Supporting student associations, providing the necessary conditions for the affirmation of autonomous associations setting up in accordance with the legislation in use. Promoting and valuing Portguese language and culture by encouraging relations with portuguese-speaking countries. Promoting critical thinking and freedom of expression and research. Consequently oriented to the offer of solid scientific training, through the articulation of studying, teaching, research and experimental development, the education aims at the creation, transmission and dissemination of culture, knowledge, science and technology. View full university

Having celebrated 50 years of existence, the ICS is well established as an excellent Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. Our researchers distinguish themselves both at the national and the international level in the various areas of knowledge, and the Institute has acquired, over the years a vast experience in postgraduate training. In terms of postgraduate programs, the ICS has established different formats of teaching and training. There are strategic partnerships with other centers of advanced training, as well as FCT doctoral programs in a few areas. Students choose the ICS because our Institution is equated with excellence, rigor, and close interaction between researchers and students. Presently, there are over 100 Doctoral students in the various Social Sciences areas at the ICS. ICS-University of Lisbon is a post-graduate research and teaching institute, accredited by the Foundation for Science and Technology as an Associate Laboratory. ICS stands as a leading institute in the production and dissemination of advanced scientific knowledge in several fields of the social sciences, nationally and internationally. It offers 10 doctoral programs, 9 of which are in association. Currently, it includes about 160 Ph.D. students working actively on their dissertations. Between 2013 and 2017, 56 Ph.D. students successfully defended their thesis. ICS currently includes 105 researchers, dedicated to supervising dissertations in the fields of Anthropology, Political Science, Human Geography, History, Social Psychology, and Sociology, and other transdisciplinary study areas. ICS provides its doctoral students with individualized training and tutoring in a research environment, with opportunities for enrichment and theoretical and methodological improvement, integrated into an internationalized and multidisciplinary community, as well as the development of transversal competencies in specialized domains. These activities result from the collaboration between researchers of different disciplinary areas (Social and Cultural Anthropology, Economics, History, Human Geography, Political Science, Social Psychology, and Sociology), organized into 7 Research Groups: Empires, Colonialism & Post-Colonial Societies Environment, Territory and Society Identities, Cultures, Vulnerabilities Life course, Inequality & Solidarity: Practices and Policies Power, Society & Globalization Regimes & Political Institutions Socio-Political Attitudes & Behaviours. ICS has always been rated as an Institution of Excellence (the highest rating) by international FCT panels (1996, 1999, 2005, 2008, and 2014). These evaluations have provided a stimulus for innovative and interdisciplinary research, for high-quality teaching, and for enhancing the social relevance of knowledge produced by ICS. Over fifty years, the driving force behind ICS has been the combination of researchers and the ideas they investigate with a scientific culture characterized by methodological and theoretical diversity. Until 2020, ICS will be contributing to Changing Societies: Legacies and Challenges - a research agenda that lead the way to a new era as a research unit within the newly-merged University of Lisbon (ULisbon). This strategy is shaped by the need to respond to emerging societal trends and social issues in a changing and unstable world (namely those concerning Inequality, Citizenship, and Sustainability), taking into account both its structural underpinnings and short-term dynamics. View full university

The Nursing School St. Joseph of Cluny was founded in 1940 by Mother Pedro Tavares, Nurse Hospital Pasteur of Paris, at the request of a group of Madeira, with good intellectual training, moral and social. Initially, the course had a duration of one year. On 13 October 1948, the ESESJC is recognized by the Order of the State Social Welfare Secretary. It was legalized under the Regulation of Nursing Schools, approved on 28 August 1952. This institution was endowed with pedagogical and technical autonomy, since its origin, and its direction and teaching of responsibility to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, with the collaboration of nurses and other health technicians. With the integration of Nursing Education at the Polytechnic Higher Education, the school was renamed the Nursing School of St. Joseph of Cluny. Currently, it has a legal personality and enjoys scientific, pedagogic, cultural, disciplinary, administrative, and financial, with respect for the basic principles and rules of the National System of Higher Education contained in the Act. It is an institution whose mission is to train professionals to such a high responsibility as being a nurse. Gives priority to human formation together with the scientific and technical and has stated, first, the learning opportunities and rigor printed the same, towards the development of skills related to the nursing profession and who, we are sure, are bearing its graduates. As a training institution adept people to take care of people, has dedicated special attention to socio-cultural changes in general and the amendment of the reference models, whether the nursing profession or teaching, valuing a close relationship and less formal teacher/student, but without devaluing the values of discipline and respect for the social roles of teachers, students or employees. The progressive introduction of active methods of teaching and learning, in which students take on the role of subjects and agents of their learning, was an important milestone with the adaptation of the Plan of Nursing Degree Course studies the philosophy of the Bologna Process, corresponding to 240 acts. Simultaneously it has adopted the Nursing College of St. Joseph of Cluny an exemplary laboratory - for the development of technical expertise - and another new technology, promoter of the development of research skills and access to the latest scientific evidence, recognized by teachers and students as a great asset. Through the school site, All this philosophy and allocation of resources has increased momentum in translated academic life, and scientific aspects, promotion of conferences, seminars, workshops, study visits, and clinical placements outside the region, with the most inherent strengths. The Student Association, the Tuna, participation in solidarity or health promotion campaigns, and other events, have contributed to the human development and citizenship of our students. The Nursing School of St. Joseph of Cluny, the quality of their education and training, has managed to achieve over the years the social recognition and prestige that much honor and dignify. Recognizes the excellence of nurses who passed through and consequently the Nursing and Health Regional, National, and International. They are proof of the feedback obtained from the employers of its graduates at regional, national, and international levels and other higher education institutions that receive our former students in post-graduate courses as well as the results of external evaluations carried out by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. From its foundation to the present time, the Nursing College of St. Joseph of Cluny has trained over 3000 professionals in Nursing. The first five decades were devoted to the teaching of basic training, and the years diversified its training offer by conducting specialization courses and graduate programs, seeking to match the population of nursing care needs. It is the commitment of the entire Academic Community - management bodies, teachers, administrative, assistants, and students - that the institution born remains high and continues its evolution long time. It is with the past and the present that the future is built. The Nursing School of St. Joseph of Cluny, founded on the values that have led states to the society it serves, will continue to make every effort so that, as part of its sphere of action, the nursing care rendered to the population of RAM correspond to your expectations and needs as well as the quality standards recommended by the Order of Nurses. View full university

Welcome to ISAL. We are thrilled to have you on our premises, a place where strong will, motivation, and knowledge are shared. SAL, as an institution of Higher Studies, initiated its activity in Madeira Autonomous Region – the Pearl of the Atlantic- in 1984. This year it commemorates its 30 years of existence. In the beginning, ISAL developed several Higher Studies which granted a Cacharel degree in Management and Tourism Areas. To accomplish further goals, ISAL acquired new facilities which allowed the adequate development of new actions within the area of Higher Studies. These new facilities were inaugurated in 2004 and they represent the first phase of the investment. 2005 was a marking year not only for ISAL but also for Madeira Autonomous Region itself once ISAL obtained permission to offer its first degree. For the very first time, a degree in Tourism was created in Madeira Autonomous Region. In 2006 ISAL began a new adventure: Postgraduate Studies. In that year a Postgraduate Study in Hotel Management was created and, thanks to its success, ISAL annually launches several new Post graduations in decisive areas always bearing in mind what is needed in the Region. In the next school year, we will promote the following Post graduation: Local Accommodation Management (New), Human Resources Management (5th Edition), Management and Logistics ( New), Management of Health Services and Social Institutions (6th Edition). With the setting up of the Bologne Agreement, ISAL created the following Degrees in 2007/08: Management, Hotel Management, Tourism. From 2008 to 2014 ISAL has developed several TSC´s(Technological Specialisation Courses): Human Resources Administrative Management (7 editions), Environmental Tourism ( 4 editions), Commercial Management (1 edition). Nowadays ISAL has acquired new facilities which will allow the development of consistent studies not only in the areas of Post graduations but also in new studies known as PHTS – “ Higher Technician Studies” along with the existing degrees. We acknowledge there is still a long way to go and to accomplish our goals we are also counting on the active participation of all the intervenients, besides new strategic measures which include a strong bet on post-graduation studies and, in the future, the offering of second-cycle studies (masters). ISAL is a nonintegrated Private Polytechnic establishment of Higher Studies. Its genesis dates back to 1971, a period when other institutions of Teaching and Professional Studies were created in Lisbon and which developed synergies that were determinant for the organization and functioning of ISAL in Madeira. In 1984, the Regional Secretary of Education of the Autonomous Region of Madeira granted the needed permission for this Institute to function. This way, the very first private institution of pos-secondary studies was born in the Region. The ISAL also develops, together with the higher studies of tourism and management, several complementary or connected activities to that level of studies, namely in the areas that allow the perfecting and counseling in management and tourism. The expansion of ISAL permitted the use of a wide variety of equipment which allowed not only the improvement of the scientific and pedagogical levels but also an increase in the offer of courses. In the school year of 2007/2008, the implementation of the adequacy of the courses offered at ISAL to the juridical regime, dated 24. March, thus making possible the aims of the Bologna Declaration, was relevant to explicit the adhesion of this Institute to a paradigm – a teaching system based on the acquisition and development of competencies- that is somehow already present in the working methodology adopted at ISAL. View full university

The Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies (Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril – ESHTE), created in 1991 (Law-Decree no. 374/91, dated 8th October), is a public polytechnic higher education institution under the tutelage of the Ministry of Education and Science. ESHTE’s statutes, published on 1st September 2008, reinforce its nature as an institute with management autonomy and emphasize ESHTE’s role in the development, transmission, and dissemination of highly qualified knowledge and training in the areas of tourism, hospitality, and catering. As a center for the development of tourism and hospitality activities, both in education and applied research, ESHTE has always been actively engaged with the business sector to adapt its teaching/learning practices to the requirements of the labor market and thus facilitate the employability of its graduate students. ESHTE’s cultural and vocational training aims at preparing future professionals that can successfully respond to the challenges and opportunities of the tourism sector, in a context of strong competitiveness and underlying uncertainty ESHTE’s location in the tourism area of Lisbon, Cascais, and Estoril, as well as the exceptional training facilities in which it undertakes its activities, contribute to reinforce its training and research offer in the areas of tourism, hospitality, and catering. ESHTE’s curricula include compulsory internships at public and private sector companies and institutions, which ensure that students have the opportunity to consolidate their experience and know-how through on-job training. This contributes to the establishment of a closer link with the business sector and allows for the constant adaptation of curricula and methodologies to the requirements of the labor market. These links with business are also strengthened by regular research visits undertaken throughout the academic year and the organization of thematic conferences, talks, congresses, and workshops with speakers from different tourism segments. In addition, ESHTE has established various agreements with public and private institutions such as hotels, travel agencies, catering and entertainment companies, city councils, as well as other local, regional, and national public entities, which have generated the development of joint projects, events, and strategies that contribute to students’ employability and enable students to transfer knowledge acquired at ESHTE to the work environment and vice-versa. Moreover, the fact that ESHTE has an Advisory Board composed of members of tourism’s institutional, business, and vocational areas ensures a more formal and permanent relationship between the school’s activities and those conducted in the market. This concern has also led to the creation of a careers and employment service (ESHTEmprego) that disseminates job and training offers to alumni and students. This rationale of opening ESHTE to the external community is further emphasized in the development of applied research (e.g. European funded projects or agreements with the public entities in the tourism sector). ESHTE has established bilateral agreements with over 20 European institutions that promote student and staff mobility exchange within the scope of the Socrates/Erasmus programs, as well as other agreements with universities in Brazil, Macao, and Camerino. ESHTE is also a member of different associations, both as a regular institutional member and as a member of their executive committees. These include AMFORHT (World Association for Hospitality and Tourism Education and Training) ATLAS (Association for Tourism and Leisure Education) EURHODIP (International Association supporting Hospitality and Tourism Education and Training) and EUHOFA (International Association of Hotel Schools). Additionally, and at a national level, ESHTE is a member of AULP (Association of Portuguese Language Universities) and ReCLes.pt (the Portuguese Association of Language Centres in Higher Education). View full university

Having been the first Business School in Portugal to embrace executive education, with formal, established links to a University institution, INDEG has since its inception in 1988, built a reputation for excellence, in delivering top-notch executive education. We owe much to many, but Eduardo Gomes Cardoso, our founder stands tall amongst those who envisioned what became a Top Business School. We were the new kids on the block, back in 1988, but that only raises the bar for us. That said, with age, comes experience. We have a history and we are savvy. Equipped with both, we look an unfathomable future, straight in the eye. We are not leaders in everything, we are not the first in all things. No School ever is. But we lead in our approach to knowledge creation and diffusion, the way we do things around here. We co-create programs with our stakeholders, we are interwoven with our client organizations and our participants and we deliver practical real-business solutions. We are leaders in our embeddedness with what is a massive entrepreneurial base. We are certainly unique in our approach to learning by doing. What is implied here is a clear focus on the provision of practical, applied solutions to real business problems. This needs to be the overriding purpose of our organization, a collective imperative that unites all of us in a common goal. We are required to pay more than lip service to the “provision of real business solutions”. It is our motto. We live and die by it!!! We take people in raw and we choreograph that which facilitates their personal development and brings out the very best in them. We do this in full alignment with business and societal goals. We equip individuals with cutting-edge, customized, and applied knowledge that leads to systematic improvement of a wide array of business indicators. We believe “the person” to be at the core of the organization and thus the crux of the matter and the purpose of the exercise is to make people happy and fulfilled. View full university

The choice of a course or a school is a key moment in the life of any student. At the Universidade Lusofona, we believe our school and its courses have many relevant aspects that invite all those who are currently facing these choices, to choose to study at the Universidade Lusofona. Let us consider this, all our courses are accredited by the A3ES, an entity responsible for the evaluation and quality assurance of higher education in Portugal all our courses have employment rates above the national average in the training areas in which they operate we have a highly qualified faculty composed of many people of recognized merit and prestige in their areas we are located in the university center of Lisbon, with excellent accessibility and location we offer a large and well-organized campus, which includes high-quality equipment and laboratories we are part of an educational project with a unique international profile, which is present in all Portuguese-speaking countries, offering a unique cultural and educational experience. For all these reasons, we believe that we are the best option. We believe that we give you reasons to choose us and share with us this unique experience of being part of a large project, the educational project of the Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias. The university teaching project of COFAC has its origins in the late 80s when ISMAG was established. The Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias was recognized only in 1998 as a higher education institution of public interest. We are therefore the youngest university in the country and we are proud to be the largest non-State university, with several students, teaching programs, and teachers holding Ph.D. degrees. The ULHT was established under a right enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic and because of that, not only does not renounce it, as uncompromisingly will defend its execution and will reject by all means at its disposal any form of discrimination, regardless of the origin. From the legal and social point of view, we are a public university (of public interest) alongside state universities. What distinguishes us from these universities is the fact that we are a self-financed university, something that is also supported by the Constitution of the Republic. We were certainly the Portuguese university that has striven the most for the implementation of the Bologna Reform because we believed that it was urgent and vital for the country that higher education was the subject of change in obsolete paradigms and working models, and therefore needed to be replaced by other values, more in line with the needs of the country's development. We fully recognize ourselves as part of the European Higher Education Space, as well as part of the Lusophone Higher Education Space. Therefore we have reflected on the Statutes of the university the Lusophone dimension of our project, as an inevitable manifestation of social responsibility since it is defined that the University has as objectives "teaching, research, and rendering of services in the various fields of culture, science and technologies, in an interdisciplinary perspective and especially to contribute to the development of all countries and Portuguese-speaking peoples. The ULHT is the only private university in the metropolitan area of Lisbon (3 million inhabitants and 25% of the Portuguese population), which has ensured a sustained growth of students and teachers holding a Ph.D. degree in recent years, accounting for about 50% of the non-state educational university offer in the Metropolitan area of Lisbon. The educational project of the Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias is the largest and most important education and training initiative that emerged from within the civil society in contemporary Portugal. Nowadays, this project goes beyond the frontiers of our country and finds an echo in similar educational initiatives in Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique, being the Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias the institution that leads the wider educational project of "Grupo Lusofona". Currently, more than 25,000 students attend the 22 education institutions that comprise the "Grupo Lusofona" in the various Portuguese-speaking countries. View full university

P.PORTO is excellence in higher education but is also a space of ideas and results in which we make a difference. We are a dynamo of cultural change, in our city, in our region, in our country. We try to meet current demands, building bridges between academia, the world of work, and civil society. We rank fourth among first-choice higher education institutions, and fifth among several students. Informal education, our aim is full employment of our graduates and post-graduates. To guarantee it, we align our educational portfolio with the needs of the business and social world. We build strategic cooperation with the local economic agents and contribute concrete solutions to real problems. We cooperate with and are a critical mass. We are an international community that stems from cooperation within a 300-entity network spread over four continents. We encourage a culture of innovative, applied research, carried out in an educational atmosphere both irreverent and transversal and focused on practice. It is not enough to be one of the best. It is not enough to rank well among first-choice institutions. To expand what distinguishes us, the P.PORTO balanced profile of knowledge and academic and applied skills is what matters. Establishing partnerships and innovating. National and internationally. The mission of P.PORTO Welfare Services is to carry out school social action policies to ensure equity in access to higher education, especially to students with financial difficulties, as well as to provide students with quality services that contribute to their academic success. To carry out its mission, P.PORTO favors close monitoring of students' needs in its various areas of action: scholarships, emergency assistance, food, accommodation, healthcare services, psychology, and social counseling, cultural knowledge, sports, among other services that characterize an active social policy. P.PORTO Welfare Services aims at being innovative, focused on students' interests, and on developing social policies within the P.PORTO community. P.PORTO's commitment to quality and quality assurance, enshrined in the rules of the institution, is the basis for the development of its mission. For this reason, the entire P.PORTO universe is covered by its internal quality assurance system (SIGaQP.PORTO), which, in turn, articulates with the various Teaching Units, systematically covering the range of activities developed by P.PORTO in the scope of its institutional mission. The objective of the system is to strengthen the institution's culture of quality, following national and international standards for quality assurance, defining processes, procedures, and mechanisms necessary to implement the Quality Policy and support the Strategic Plan. The mission of P.PORTO is to create and further knowledge, science, technology, and culture, and to provide students with technical, scientific, artistic, and transverse skills that articulate knowledge and action, to become the agent of transformation at home and abroad, and through intervention contribute to the wise development of society. P.PORTO presently follows a model of decentralized governance, in line with the autonomy of the Schools. P.PORTO governance structure comprises the General Council, the President, the Management Council, and the Academic Council and is presently integrated by the Presidency Secretariat and Education Welfare Services, as well as the Teaching and Research Units. Our vocation is to teach: not only knowing how to know but also knowing how to do and knowing how to be. We do not just claim it, we do it. We are at the forefront of higher education in Portugal: eight schools, 68 undergraduate courses, 60 master's programs, and 18 500 students make up an open, challenging, and multicultural community Our profile is balanced with about 1500 teachers with academic as well as technological or business competencies and skills, and with teaching practice supported by research that is nationally and internationally recognized. Our identity is reflected in the transversal educational offers in the number of students that we attract as first and second preferences in the highly qualified teaching staff in our international dimension and our involvement with contemporary innovation challenges. P.PORTO features a range of undergraduate, master's, and other specialization courses in areas covering a wide spectrum of knowledge: Education, Health, Engineering, Hospitality and Tourism, Arts, Management and Technology, Business Sciences, Media Arts, and Design. It is an exemplary vocational training offer, concerned with the acquisition of the basic skills for professional practice and linked to the requirements of innovation and competitiveness. View full university

The creation of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, on 26th December 1979, through the Governmental Act-of-Law nº513-T/7, is framed by the broader philosophy which supported the successful implementation of polytechnic higher education in our country. The widening of higher education to the whole territory, in a logic of combating the concentration in the main coastal cities, and the innovation made possible by a closer contact between the training institutions and the surrounding community, seem to have been two of the factors that have driven forward the creation of polytechnic higher education in Portugal and, particularly, in the region of Viseu. From all general objectives of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, we should stress the cooperation with the surrounding community, on a reciprocal basis, aimed at promoting awareness of regional problems and the implementation of proper solutions. Furthermore, there are other objectives to be considered: technical, humanistic, and personal training of its students, to make them capable of contributing to the development of the Portuguese society development of research activities, having in mind the needs of the surrounding context and cultural exchange and cooperation with another state/private institutions, at the national and international levels. In the last two decades, the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu has grown continuously and it now includes 6 units: 5 higher schools - The School of Education, The School of Technology, The Agrarian School, The School of Technology and Management (in the city of Lamego), The Health School and The Welfare Services. Presently this institution has over 7000 students and 400 teachers. It currently offers higher training in many fields, such as teacher training, media studies, cultural studies, social service, sports, multimedia, engineering (in many areas), management, marketing, tourism, agrarian sciences, and nursing. The Polytechnic Institute of Viseu is a state higher education institution aimed at producing and disseminating knowledge, carrying out research activities, and training professionals, to promote sustainable development and quality of life in the region. This institution is guided by fundamental values such as multidimensional training, respect for rights, active participation of all, ethical commitment towards society, excellence, and autonomy. Constant efforts are being made to build an institution with national and international visibility, based on excellence at the levels of teaching, scientific and cultural production, and its contribution to effective regional and national development and also to equal opportunities. The international cooperation of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (PIV) is preserved in its statutes and promotes, directly or through its schools, the integration into networks, partnerships, and cooperation relations with foreign higher education institutions, international scientific organizations, and other institutions, in particular within the European Union, bilateral or multilateral agreements signed by the Portuguese Government. The PIV also promotes cooperation within the Portuguese-speaking countries for joint coordination activities. Actions and international cooperation programs must be compatible with the nature and purposes of the Institute and its schools and take into account its strategic development and broad lines of national policy, especially in what concerns education, science, culture, and international relations. For choosing partners it will be considered the academic offer, learning and training conditions, teaching and learning language, facilities, and viability for joint projects development, both in terms of teaching/training and research that may bring skills development benefits to students, teachers, and staff. View full university

Established in 1979, the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra is a Public Higher Education Institution located in the West center of Portugal, in the city known for centuries as the “city of students”. Covering a huge diversity of training areas, from agriculture and environment, education, communication, tourism, arts, management, accounting, and marketing, to health and engineering. The Polytechnic of Coimbra offers Higher Professional Degree Programmes and Vocational Education, Bachelor's Degrees, Post-graduations, and Master’s Degrees, representing a vital part of the city and playing a critical role in local development and national progress. Quality education – where the practical component is strongly supported by solid theory training, with a constant concern to adapt training to market demands, a close connection with companies, the incentive to entrepreneurship and internationalization are central pillars of its education, assuring successful careers to its graduates, as well as high employability rates. Social Service is another core organizational unit responding to the students’ needs using general support, scholarships, board and accommodation, medical services, and sports practice. The Polytechnic of Coimbra represents Modernity, Innovation, Knowledge, Quality, Employability, Citizenship, Solidarity, Multiculturalism. The Polytechnic of Coimbra Social Service (SASIPC) aims at enabling the access to higher education and successful attendance of all the Institute students, with positive discrimination towards economically deprived students as well as displaced ones, offering the best study conditions, using service provisions and supports, such as Scholarships and emergency supports, Accommodation, Canteens and bars, Health services, Support to sport and cultural activities. CERNAS – Centro de Estudos de Recursos Naturais, Ambiente e Sociedade (Natural Resources, Environment and Society Study Centre) is a research unit at the heart of our College of Agriculture and also at the College of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco and is part of the National Scientific and Technological System. Assessed by an International Expert Committee, which substantiated its plurennial funding by the Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia (Science and Technology Foundation), CERNAS aims at becoming an excellency research unit in the field of Agricultural Sciences, Science and Food Engineering, Environment and Society and related activities, promoting sustainable development at a regional level as part of global intervention, cultivating and disseminating science and technology for the common good of society. CERNAS research is at the core of the challenges that humanity will have to face shortly: exhaustion of energy resources and raw material, in conjunction with the global trends of climate change, the demographic increase, and resulting environmental degradation. View full university

The Universidade Lusíada was founded on 28 June 1986 as the Cooperativa de Ensino Universidade Lusíada (Lusiada University Teaching Cooperative), and by Decree Law n.º 117/2003 of 14 June was altered to the Fundação Minerva – Cultura – Ensino e Investigação Científica (Minerva Foundation – Culture – Teaching and Research). The university quickly expanded its operations to Porto and Vila Nova de Famalicão, and then to the República Popular de Angola and the República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe. Now, after more than 25 years, the Lusiada Universities are proud of their national and international presence, their achievements, and most of all of their contribution to the education of a large part of Portugal’s youth. More than 25,000 graduates are now spread throughout a host of activities, and they have played a pivotal role in the cultural, economic, and social development of their country, attaining the noblest of goals, and are thereby the most eloquent testimony of all to the value of the schools. The university’s constant achievements demand untiring effort from its teachers, up-to-date facilities, and the renewal of its teaching methods – always with a dedication to the principles of quality and rigor. Today, in a world of social and economic turbulence, we need professionals who are cultured and highly trained, and only higher education can provide these qualities. Answering this call, and satisfying the aspirations of the Portuguese people, the Lusiada Universities deliver precisely what is sought and expected by society’s stakeholders. For the Lusiada Universities, education does not end at the classroom door we understand that learning cannot be reduced to mere technical instruction leading to professional tasks. Such a limited approach would diminish the greater scope of education itself. University education should address the human issues regarding the very sense and significance of being, and reflect upon more profound themes – equipping graduates with a social conscience springing from human values, as well as Portuguese tradition, history, and culture. These should fuel a search for truth, creativity, a critical eye, and all of the many other features and attitudes that enrich Man. Acquiring ethics and a social conscience that will serve as the foundation of one’s behavior and profession is Lusiada’s ultimate goal. We strive for the members of our university community to be known for their human qualities to the same extent as their professional skills. To that end, our cultural activities are central to the enrichment of academic life, using seminars, conferences, debates, congresses, summer courses, etc., which allow the students to expand their horizons and complement their formal learning. Students are additionally invited to organize their initiatives, and in so doing amplify their learning space in the directions of their personal and shared talents and interests. To assist them in this, there are many clubs and organizations dedicated to music, dance, plastic arts, theater, cinema, literature, and much more. Sports are also of great importance in student life at the Lusiada Universities. Physical activities are instruments of personal development, and also help to consolidate the values that underpin the educative process. Consequently, the school encourages all of its students to participate in sports – for the sake of competition and, more importantly, to build individual and group character. In its efforts to secure student opportunities, the Lusiada Universities have made several agreements with partner institutions for international exchange, including the Erasmus and Socrates programs. The Lusiada Universities seek to imbue young men and women with a strong sense of citizenship, ethics, and social, cultural, and professional values, using teaching and research leading toward the sustainable development of society. We prepare our students as people, citizens, and professionals ready to join the workforce and society, balancing humanistic, critical, and reflexive education that always seeks to place knowledge at the service of Man and the building of a better world, based on mutual respect and justice. We strive for every one of our students to realize her/his maximum potential, despite life’s uncertainties and growing competitiveness. We promote an open and cosmopolitan environment in which all of our students can contribute, learn, and grow. We wish for all individuals to be respected, treated fairly, and engaged. Above all, we want to construct an atmosphere that nurtures achievement and friendship. We remain true to our heritage and seek to close the gap between principles and practice. We wish to be a leader among European universities and those in the Portuguese-speaking world, and that this will be recognized in our teaching excellence, scholarly production, and quality of services. View full university

The Military University Institute conducted between 6th and 31st May 2019, the second edition of the Advanced Land Operations Planning Course, to expand the knowledge necessary to plan and employ land forces. This training sought to develop critical and creative thinking in the planning of land forces, as well as the ability to analyze, synthesize and argue through the application of methodologies focused on discussion and debate. The course was preceded by an individual preparation made using e-learning methodology to update fundamental doctrinal knowledge. During the course, the students developed knowledge about land operations doctrine, applied the Military Decision Process to deal with a tactical situation, and participated in conferences related to the strategic planning conducted in the Portuguese Army. Included in the program of the course an International Seminar about Mission Command in the 21st century was held to identify and discuss main implications to land forces. We are a public higher education institution for military studies. We provide training and education to the officers of the Armed Forces and the Guarda Nacional Republicana (National Republican Guard) throughout their careers, enabling them to perform command and staff duties within their branches, combined joint forces, and within national or international institutions/organizations. The Center for Research and Development of the IUM (CIDIUM) is responsible for: Promote or participate, in collaboration with other institutions of the national or international scientific community, in carrying out ID & I projects and in disseminating scientific knowledge, especially in areas of interest to national security and defense To support research, development and innovation activities in postgraduate studies To ensure the coordination and articulation between the ID & I centers of the autonomous organizational units, with a view to developing lines of research in the areas of fundamental interest for security and national defense, enhancing their specific characteristics in the pursuit of IUM interest areas, Armed Forces and the GNR To promote, in articulation with the R & D centers of the autonomous organic units, R & D activities aimed at scientific production, methodological training of students, qualification of teaching staff, search for new pedagogical solutions, improvement of teaching in general and Development in areas of special interest for security and defense. The Instituto de Estudos Superiores Militares (IESM) - Institute of Military Higher Studies, created by the Decree-Law No. 161/2005 of September 22, which replaces the Instituto Superior Naval de Guerra (Naval School of War), the Instituto de Altos Estudos Militares (Institute for Advanced Military Studies) and the Instituto de Altos Estudos da Força Aérea (Institute for Advanced Studies of the Air Force), is a Public Higher Military Education Institution, and is directly under the Chief of General Staff of the Portuguese Armed Forces and is regulated by specific legislation. To ensure the normal operation of all logistical, administrative, and financial activities of IESM, ensuring the efficiency of the service and the readiness of available resources. The Planning and Programming Office (GPP) operates under the orders of the Director of Education, to ensure the planning and programming of the Institutes’ courses and internship programs and perform academic administrative duties. Furthermore, the office ensures the carrying out of studies, the drafting of proposals, the following of the relations with external organizations, and the keeping of education-related files and records. View full university