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NTU "KhPI" has developed its Learning Content Management System (LCMS) to solve problems using e-learning resources in all education forms. NTU "KhPI" organizes student education activity from the moment of application to the training program. It supports a full quantity of materials, starting from the course structure's prior planning and content development to integrating into the educational process. It provides a clear separation of available functionality for different users as administrators, course authors, developers, teachers, students, guests, etc. In the interaction between students and teachers, electronic messages with options for e-mail copies and RSS-syndication are used. Keeping of the main principles of the Bologna process, implementing ECTS in the learning process, gaining experience in students mobility organization using primary ECTS documents during university study of the students of other higher education institutions as well as organizing the learning process applying module approach indicate the right way that was chosen. Gained experience of development and implementation of the new generation of curricula for bachelor study, implementing a new list of specialties for Specialist and Master preparation kept Educational and Methodical Board reviewing the scheme of preparation of specialists as well as accepting schemes' Bachelor' – 'Specialist,' 'Bachelor' – 'Master.' Recognition of the new scheme of preparation of specialists forced to amend the training's term and content. Bachelor's and Master's curricula approved in April 2011 will come into force from the 1st of September 2011/2012 academic year. Improvement of specialists preparation, implementation of the strategic task – integration into European and world educational structure – cause the necessity to modernize the structure of the university's educational and methodological work administration. NTU "KhPI" is one of the leading higher education institutions which define the strategy of the specialist's preparation, economic and technical policy in Ukraine. And its alumni will always have profound fundamental and professional preparation, effusive humanist and moral world-view, and the real specialists of the 3d millennium having the sense of responsibility for the results of their activities. The International Education Faculty prepares international students for education at the universities in Ukraine and offers a challenging program in a nurturing environment, with small classes, individual attention, and outstanding teachers as our hallmarks. A traditional and structured yet creative curriculum serves a range of diverse students within a family-like environment. The International Education Faculty creates an atmosphere of academic excellence, as we seek to instill students with a love of learning and provide sound preparation for higher education. The International Education Faculty encourages positive attitudes, fosters leadership, and consistently reinforces responsible behavior's values and standards. By working together, teachers and students strive to engender self-confidence and guide students toward their highest potential. Students who face challenges with enthusiasm, a faculty that nurtures their growth and teachers, who support the many facets of students' life join in forming the International Education Faculty family. The International Education Faculty offers different types of programs: multi-week, semester, or full year. We also offer summer language classes. By having a variety of program options, the International Education Faculty offers all students the opportunity to take the full slate of courses or pick up extra credits in core subjects through a convenient and easy schedule. The International Education Faculty is a premier destination for international students from different countries around the world. We help prepare students for higher education in Ukraine for their choosing. The International Education Faculty offers a full regular curriculum in Maths, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Sciences, Technical Drawing, Ecology, History, Economics, Culture, Russian and Ukrainian languages that will ensure students meet and exceed their academic goals and find places in the Universities and Colleges of their choosing. Our Faculty guarantees entry to Ukrainian universities without exams. The International Education Faculty has an excellent track record: all of our students have been accepted to the universities of their choice! In previous years, the International Education Faculty has been host to international students from Austria, Georgia, China, Vietnam, different Arabic and African countries. However, our Faculty is excited to expand its international student body while offering a world-class education. In today's global career market, individuals with international education have an extreme advantage. Here, at the International Education Faculty, we help individuals develop into globally-oriented Scientists, Mathematicians, Engineers, Medicines, and Business oriented individuals. We look forward to having the opportunity to play a role in your child's education and prepare them for a successful life and career. The International Education Faculty staff are highly trained, experienced, and focused on delivering outstanding academic programs. The International Education Faculty has a family-oriented, nurturing environment where all students feel safe and cared for. Our main goal is to help students find themselves, both from an educational perspective, and become healthier mentally and emotionally. Our multicultural faculty population provides the same stimulating environment our students will experience later in University life and later in the real world. Teachers at the International Education Faculty have an incredible spectrum of knowledge and a passion for delivering it. We teach and guide our students as they carve an excellent road to success. We believe that a teacher's primary goal is to provide individualized attention, which will allow students to conquer any obstacles they encounter on their journeys through life. To ensure this, our teachers are trained and experienced in teaching multicultural classrooms through differentiated instruction, with a strong focus on multiple intelligences. Our Faculty offers students an enriched academic program for university entrance. Our goals are to challenge and motivate each student to reach their full potential, both academically and emotionally. Our balanced curriculum helps prepare students for university and beyond, and they mature into well-round citizens, life-long learners, and leaders within their professional way. Our curriculum is fully integrated using cutting edge technology and computer-based teaching exercises. The International Education Faculty's curriculum is built on four core subjects: Russian/Ukrainian languages, Maths, Computing, and History. With these four subjects as a foundation, our curriculum then expands to include other necessary subjects. These include but are not limited to Physics, Chemistry, Technical Drawing, Ecology, and Economics… At the International Education Faculty, we ensure that our students are given the tools and resources they need to learn. Students develop their speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills and their grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and idioms and refresh or obtain their knowledge in Maths and Computing, Physics and Chemistry, Technical Drawing and History, Ecology, and Economics. The International Education Faculty believes that each student can succeed as long as they are given the right opportunity and resources. We offer small class sizes and individual teacher time for each student. Education and learning are unique for every student, so our students enjoy small classes and a low teacher to student ratio at the International Education Faculty. This combination provides an ideal learning environment where students are free to develop self-esteem and confidence in their learning. This also allows each teacher to create individualized lesson plans for each student to allow each student to advance at their own pace. This keeps students enthusiastic, motivated, and eager to learn. The International Education Faculty believes that every student should have the opportunity to pursue higher education and works to ensure that every student achieves their educational goals. In our rigorously developing world, we must think globally. A careful analysis of many areas of study would reveal that there exist much interconnection and overlap. The beauty of knowing how to spot these similarities allows us to see the world in a different light, which in turn allows us to solve difficult problems and make tough decisions. Hence, we teach our students to see the patterns, connections, and similarities in everything they pursue. This results in a more complete and profound understanding of class topics and their application to the real world. To achieve this multifaceted goal, we designed programs that stem from the students' interests and integrate knowledge across the curriculum's different strands. The result is a carefully designed program where problem-solving, brilliancy, creativity, and academic excellence are fostered.

Odesa National Polytechnic University is the oldest higher technical educational establishment in the south of Ukraine. Throughout the years, Odesa Polytech graduates made a considerable contribution to the development of Ukrainian and global science and technology and have educated many national economy specialists. University graduates perform productive work in all regions of Ukraine and the ninety-one foreign countries. Born in September 1918, Odessa National Polytechnic University has a long way of growth and development. Over the years, this University became one of the leading universities of Ukraine, became a major educational and research centre, which played and still plays a significant role in the development of education and science. The authority of eminent scientists who have been working in it now contributes to the University's high prestige. There are many world scientists among them. The University is continuously developing creative relationships with enterprises, companies, organizations, academic and research institutions of Ukraine and foreign countries. University is open for cooperation with every person who wants to contribute to higher education in Ukraine. University staff, continuing the glorious traditions of Polytechnics, is working on augmentation of our state's scientific and technological capabilities, prepares highly qualified personnel for the modern production system regarding the new economic conditions, and research in various fields of science and technology. The life and work of the Polytechnic is a life of the whole country, the lives of its graduates, its scientists and educators - all those who have raised the country from the ruins of the Civil War and World War, all those who have created the country's industrial might, who acquires the triumph of the pioneers of space. Tractates and the achievements of the scientists worked in different years at the University, as well as those who continue to work within its walls today, are known to the scientific community. There is a 1 Nobel laureate, 4 Hero of Socialist Labor, 15 State Prize laureate, 17 honoured workers of science and technology, 9 Honoured High School and Public Education, 34 excellent worker education in Ukraine. Most of them have not only worked but received higher education at the Odessa Polytechnic. For the higher performance in teaching and scientific-technological activities, Odesa National Polytechnic University has been awarded: in 1968 Diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of Ukraine, in 1971 the Order of Red Banner of Labor, in 1977 the University staff are listed on the Board of Honour of Ukraine, 1998 Diploma of the Council of Ministers of Ukraine, and in 2001 national status was granted. Today, Odessa Polytechnic is actively working on innovative development of its high school, setting themselves the ambitious task of obtaining the status of Research University of the European level. This problem is within Polytechnic's grasp.

IPSA is an engineering college offering a five-year graduate syllabus specializing in aeronautical and space systems. Students acquire broad knowledge in various scientific fields and a practical engineering approach. It positions the holder as able to address any issue related to air and space. Graduates will have developed broad general engineering knowledge as well as highly specialized skills in the fields of aeronautics and space. The IPSA training also allows graduates to work in other technically advanced fields similar to aerospace, such as automotive and maritime transport, where the techniques and technologies used are close to those in aeronautics. The training's objective is to ensure the acquisition of knowledge essential to high-level expertise and validate the knowledge necessary to exercise diverse responsibilities as they emerge in a career. Based on a balance between teaching and project work (related to typical industrial issues), the IPSA curriculum includes a strong aerospace dimension from the start of training, evolving over the years. The student shapes the training by choosing specific 'technological majors' during the engineering cycle, allowing them to individualize courses and obtain expertise in a chosen field. Corporate conferences and international awareness are there to give additional skills that build critical thinking and the student's ability to make decisions. The campus allows students of IPSA and ESME Sudria to share student association events. The campus is located near fast-food restaurants and cafés and numerous university halls of residence. In over 50 years of existence, IPSA has forged relationships and lasting partnerships with significant aerospace sector players. These partners voluntarily meet students and discuss various aspects (scientific, technical, cultural, and economic) of the engineering profession. This proximity to the industry allows IPSA, through its Development Council, to align training with the industry's needs. Alumni working in major companies in the sector readily return to their school to share their experiences with future engineers at IPSA. Implanted in a highly internationalized industrial sector, it is quite natural that IPSA focuses from the beginning of learning English and the need to gain international experience. Indeed, teaching in the 4th and fifth years is only in English. Moreover, the college has created an ambitious foreign educational program that corresponds to the real world and its students' ambitions. Therefore, IPSA has 40 partner universities worldwide, hosting students for a semester or an academic year. IPSA has also been developing double degree agreements with several universities. If there is a school where passion is present, it's IPSA. The associations' projects, due to their complexity, reveal the passionate side of Ipsaliens. IPSA also organizes various events to enable its students to live their passion otherwise, such as a week dedicated to flying, presence at various air shows and gatherings including the famous meeting at 'La Ferté Alais.' Created 50 years ago, IPSA is an aeronautical and space systems engineering school located in Paris and Toulouse. IPSA propose to the students a five years graduate education program. Today IPSA claims more than ever its vocation as a specialist school in the sector. To assert its place and develop its knowledge of the area, it has built over the years reliable and long-lasting partnerships with companies in the air & space industry, both at civil and military levels. In line with the sector's prominent decision-makers, the school proposes training in touch with the market's expectations, allowing students to enter into a high level of active life while fulfilling their passion for air and space. Situated between the industrial and academic worlds, research is one of the cornerstones of IPSA pedagogy. An Aerospace Engineering college, with its research laboratories dedicated to Aerospace, IPSA places innovation at the heart of it's training in engineering. Thanks to its researchers and their works, IPSA can contract new fundamental partnerships with industrial and external laboratories. Research in the college develops in synergy with the world of fundamental and applied research. The Mechatronics, Signal and Systems Laboratory at IPSA develops robust automated systems that control complex systems. It has with CNES, universities, and some aerospace companies (industrial, SMEs, institutions) and develops innovative projects for aeronautics and space through partnerships. Thus, it is committed to the ARES program, where the goal is to develop small modular experimental rockets. Other research themes coexist in this laboratory. One of them is to study the architecture of an RF receiver (Radio Frequency) for software-defined radio and cognitive radio. Another focuses on theoretical and technological challenges imposed by the development of autonomous miniature vehicles. These collaborations bring additional resources and expertise to IPSA's partners. Simultaneously, IPSA benefits from its partners' framework and resources to be more productive, both in terms of pure research and ultimately in the transfer in education to students. The growth of research also helps to establish closer links with industry, mainly via the ASTech pole.

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.

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.

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.

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.

IPMAIA is pleased to welcome you to its Institute and hopes you will enjoy your stay and studies in Maia. IPMAIA is always available and awaits your arrival with enthusiasm. The Polytechnic Institute of Maia - IPMAIA is located in the city of Maia, 12 km from Porto, the second-largest city in Portugal. The university campus occupies an area of 70,000 m2 and offers students excellent infrastructures, transport facilities, and state-of-the-art technological equipment. For academic members' convenience, IPMAIA is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Starting 2016/17, a new state-of-the-art, on-campus Sports Complex will be available for all IPMAIA students. IPMAIA is a prestigious higher education institution that offers 4 Bachelor's degree programs and 19 short-cycle programs, all of which have been accredited by the Portuguese Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) and/or the Directorate-General of Higher Education (DGES). All course programs are taught by highly professional and qualified academic staff members, holders of a Ph.D. to an extent that largely exceeds the national legal requirements. With some exceptions, the programs at IPMAIA are conducted in Portuguese. For international and/or Portuguese students interested in attending English-taught courses, some programs might be available in English in 2016/17 (provided there is a minimum number of students required for the course to run). International students typically have special permission to sit exams and/or carry out project work in languages other than Portuguese (usually English, French or Spanish). Language support is provided through Portuguese language courses offered by the International Relations Office. The timetables of the classes are normally flexible, to suit students' needs. Higher Technical Professional Courses are Accompanying Children and Young People, Accounting and Management, Administrative Human Resource Management, Comercial Management, and Sales, Construction Works Management and Building Renovation, Design and Industrial Innovation, Digital Marketing, Environmental Quality, Family and Community Service, Industrial Management, Industrial Maintenance, Legal Services, Leisure Sports, Multimedia Production and Digital Games, Network and IT Systems, Sports and Nature Tourism, Technologies and Information Systems Programming, Youth Sports Coaching. Our Bachelor Degrees are Accounting, Information Technology, Web and Multimedia, Legal Studies, Maintenance, and Safety Management, Sports Coaching Our Master Degrees are Legal Studies. IPMAIA is divided into two Higher Schools: Higher School of Social Sciences, Education and Sports, and Higher School of Technology and Management. Academic and research activities rely on the support of both research and functional units. IPMAIA is in the process of creating its institutional Research Unit, and many of its teachers are already integrated into other national Research Units. Regarding Functional Units, IPMAIA provides the academic community with a(n): Multiplatform Studio (Centre for Communication Sciences), Advanced Laboratory of Telecommunications, Multimedia Centre and Laboratory, Photography Laboratory, Physical Condition Centre and Human Kinetics Laboratory, Laboratory of Forensic and Criminal Sciences, Occupational Safety Support Centre, Physics Laboratory, Chemistry Laboratory, Entrepreneurship Centre, Centre for Psychological Support Services.

Our vision is "A vibrant and nurturing Polytechnic Service College for transforming lives and communities." Our mission is "To improve the lives of people and communities through quality instruction, innovations, productivity initiatives, environment and industry-feasible technologies, resource mobilization and transformation outreach programs, and services." The Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College (ISPSC) was created by RA 8547 authored by the then-Congressman of the 2nd District of Ilocos Sur, Hon. Eric D. Singson is converting the then Ilocos Sur Polytechnic College (ISPC) into a state college. The charter was signed into law by President Fidel V. Ramos on February 24, 1998. The then Ilocos Sur Polytechnic College was created under RA 7960, authored by then-Congressman Eric D. Singson, and signed into law on March 29, 1995. The law converted the then Ilocos Sur Agricultural College (ISAC) into a polytechnic college, integrating into it seven vocational-technical and general academic secondary schools in the second district of Ilocos Sur, namely: Narvacan School of Fisheries NASOF), Southern Ilocos Sur School of Fisheries (SISSOF), Ilocos Sur Experimental Station and Pilot School of Cottage Industries (ISESPSCI), Tagudin General Comprehensive High School (TGCHS), Cervantes National Agro-Industrial School (CNAIS), Suyo National High School and Salcedo National High School. After its conversion into a state college, two of the campuses, Suyo Campus and Salcedo Campus, were reverted to the Department of Education. ISPSC is a comprehensive six-campus institution of higher learning mandated to give professional and technical training both in the undergraduate and graduate levels in the fields of economics, agriculture, fishery, trade, home industry, engineering, education, forest research and conservation, management, finance, accounting and business administration, public administration and other fields as may be relevant, besides providing for the promotion of scientific and technological researches which the College deems necessary in carrying out its objectives. The main campus is situated in Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur, and the five other campuses are strategically located in Candon City and the municipalities of Narvacan, Santiago, Tagudin, and Cervantes, in the second district of Ilocos Sur. Today, ISPSC offers accredited graduate programs in the fields of Education and Agriculture. The College also offers the following accredited undergraduate programs: Elementary and Secondary Teacher Education, Agriculture, Home Technology Education, Information Technology, Industrial Technology, and Hotel and Restaurant Management. The first College Administrator was Mr. Apolonio P. Labuanan, who served as Officer-in-Charge from February 24, 1998, to July 15, 1999. He served as Technical-Vocational Schools Superintendent of the then ISAC. He laid down the groundwork for the integration of the Ilocos Sur Polytechnic College. The first President of ISPSC, Dr. Alejandro V. Directo, pursued the "SMILE" principle, which stands for sincerity, morality, integrity, loyalty, efficiency, and effectiveness. He began his term as President on July 16, 1999, and was extended for a second term in 2003. Dr. Directo instituted the campus identity through the designation of a flagship program for each campus. He initiated the accreditation of degree programs offered by ISPSC as a means of achieving quality and excellence. The second President, Dr. Rafael B. Querubin, re-engineered the College to become more relevant and responsive. His term on January 1, 2008, and championed the "CHARMED" paradigm. This 7-point development agenda calls for Community Capability Building and Responsive Networking Human Resources Development and Character Building Aggressive Academic Achievement Resource Generation and Wise Allocation of Resources Maximized Use of Resources ad Effective Maintenance Program E-Governance and Management and, Developing Physical Facilities and Building Structures. He developed a Medium-Term Development Plan of the College (2011-2015) and instituted a new set-up for the College. The new college set-up produced two campus clusters: the North Cluster – consisting of Santa Maria, Santiago, and Narvacan, and the South Cluster – consisting of Tagudin, Candon City, and Cervantes. He emphasized the cultivation of a research and development culture by creating the Office of Vice President for Planning, Research, Extension, and Training. He also aggressively pushed for physical plant development. The main campus of ISPSC is the Santa Maria Campus, which has been identified as the Provincial Institute of Agriculture. Santa Maria campus had its early beginnings as a farm school in 1913, then evolved into the Santa Maria Agricultural High School. In 1963, SMAHS was converted into the Ilocos Sur Agricultural College by RA 3529 authored by Congressman Pablo C. Sanidad. Then in 1995, it was converted into the Ilocos Sur Polytechnic College, which was the precursor of the present ISPSC. The Narvacan Campus is formerly the Narvacan School of Fisheries, established in 1964 by RA 3476 authored by Cong. Pablo C. Sanidad, which was signed into law on June 16, 1962. When it was integrated into ISPSC, the Narvacan Campus became the College of Fisheries and Marine Science. Today, it is identified as the Provincial Institute of Fisheries. The Santiago Campus was formerly known as the Ilocos Sur Experimental Station and Pilot School of Cottage Industries (ISESPSCI), established under RA 4430 signed into law on June 19, 1965. It is situated on a 3.5-hectare area along the national highway in Santiago's municipality, Ilocos Sur. When it was integrated into ISPSC, it became the College of Engineering and Technology. At present, Santiago Campus houses the College of Technology. . Tagudin Campus is the South Cluster seat. It was formerly known as the Tagudin General Comprehensive High School established, which started as the Tagudin High School and became a national high school by RA 4447, signed into law on June 19, 1965. After its integration into ISPSC, it became the College of Arts and Sciences. Today it houses the College of Teacher Education, the College of Business and Hospitality Management, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the College of Information Technology. Candon City Campus was formerly the Southern Ilocos Sur School of Fisheries (SISSOF), which evolved from a fishery demonstration farm (Ilocos Sur Marine Demonstration Farm). It is located in the coastal barangay of Darapidap, Candon City. With its integration into the ISPSC, it became the College of Commercial and Social Services. At present, Candon City Campus houses the College of Business and Hospitality Management. Cervantes Campus was formerly the Cervantes National Agro-Industrial School (CNAIS), which evolved from the Cervantes National School of Arts and Trades established under RA 4424 signed into law on June 19, 1965. It is located in a scenic upland municipality, which is also a gateway to the Cordillera provinces.

LSPU shall be the Center for Sustainable Development, transforming Lives and Communities. LSPU Provides quality education through responsive instruction, distinctive research, sustainable extension, and production services for improved quality of life towards nation-building. The University shall primarily provide advanced education, professional, technological, and vocational instruction in agriculture, fisheries, forestry, science, engineering, industrial technologies, teacher education, medicine, law, arts and sciences, information technology, and other fields. It shall also undertake research and extension services and provide progressive leadership in its areas of specialization. At LSPU are committed to continual improvement to provide quality, efficient and effective services to the University Stakeholder's highest level of satisfaction through a dynamic and excellent management system imbued with utmost integrity, professionalism, and innovation. This state institution (LSPU) started from its humble beginnings in 1952. it was first established as a provincial high school known as Baybay Provincial High School, the first public high school established in the shoreline (bay) district of Laguna de Bay and the second in the whole Province of Laguna. In 1957, by Republic Act No. 1807, in June 1957, the Baybay Provincial High School was converted into Baybay National Agricultural and Vocational School (BNAVS). BNAVS became the PACD-BVE Training Center in rice production for American Peace Corps Volunteers. This center produced 682 graduates. The Manpower Training Center Started to operate in the school year 1968-1969. BNAVS also became the pilot school for the 2-year Agricultural Technician Curriculum, Associate in Agriculture. This started in December 1969 with eight enrollees. The College was also one of the Experimental Agricultural High Schools (EAHS) selected by the Educational Development Projects Implementing Task Force (EDPITAF) under Presidential Decree No. 6-A, to receive World Bank Aid of infrastructure, equipment, and staff development. This state institution was a grantee of the Agricultural Education Outreach Project (AEOP) from 1980 to 1983. AEOP was a research project of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Research programs became more prioritized, and government extension programs became more aggressive. The College was also one of the Experimental Agricultural High Schools (EAHS) selected by the Educational Development Projects Implementing Task Force (EDPITAF) under Presidential Decree No. 6-A, to receive World Bank Aid of infrastructure, equipment, and staff development. This state institution was a grantee of the Agricultural Education Outreach Project (AEOP) from 1980 to 1983. AEOP was a research project of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Research programs became more prioritized, and government extension programs became more aggressive. On June 10, 1983, under Batas Pambansa No. 482, BNCAT was further converted into a state college, known as the Laguna State Polytechnic College. From then on, the Laguna State Polytechnic College grew more prominent and better. With the incumbency of Dr. Ricardo A. Wagan as the first College President in 1986, several projects and infrastructure developments poured into LSPC. Among the remarkable accomplishments then were as follows: In 1993, this state institution was designated by the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS) as one of the seven (7) Provincial Technical Institutes of Agriculture (PTIAs) in Region IV under the Aus-AID-AGRITECH Project aimed at improving the curriculum, instructional programs and the development of practical and applied researches. It opened four (4) satellite campuses through Memoranda of Agreements with the local governments. It integrated the following three (3) CHED-Supervised Institutions following the Special Provision No. 2 of the CHED FY 1999 Budget under the General Appropriations Act of 1999 or Republic Act No. 8745 and Republic Act No. 8292 Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997, through the issuance of the following: CHED Memorandum No. 18, s. 1999 entitled Issuance of the Implementing Guidelines on the Integration of CHED-Supervised Institutions (CSIs) to State Universities and Colleges (SUCs). This integration formally took place on October 5 and 25, 1999, respectively, to wit: Laguna College of Arts and Trades now LSPU-Sta. Cruz Campus is located at Barangay Bubukal, Sta. Cruz, Laguna Los Baños College of Fisheries now LSPU-Los Baños Campus located at Barangays Malinta, Los Baños, Laguna CHED Memorandum Order No. 27, s. 2000 Issuance of Implementing Guidelines of the Integration of CHED-Supervised Institutions (CSIs) to State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) (Phase II). The formal turn-over ceremony took place on December 11, 2000, to wit: San Pablo City National School of Arts and Trades now LSPU-San Pablo City Campus located at Barangay Del Remedio, San Pablo City. His incumbency is marked by a list of distinctive accomplishments such as the establishment of a multi-campus State Institution a remarkable increase in the number of non-degree and degree curricular programs/offerings, which resulted in increased inrolment and need for more teachers exempted Secondary School Teachers to be transferred to DECS per CHED-DECS joint circular, intensified rehabilitation, repair, face-lifting of old structures and construction of new academic, research, library, dormitory, canteen-cafeteria, sports and recreation facilities opened the Graduate Studies, and Applied Research in its four (4) Campuses acquired state of the art equipment, e.g., Speech Lab., computers, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Laboratory equipment, the Tissue Culture Laboratory, HO.

The Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) is a government educational institution governed by Republic Act Number 8292, known as the Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997. Its Implementing Rules and Regulations were in the Commission on Higher Education Memorandum Circular No. 4, series 1997. PUP is one of the country's highly competent educational institutions. The PUP Community comprises the Board of Regents, University Officials, Administrative and Academic Personnel, Students, various Organizations, and the Alumni. The University is committed to giving qualified and talented individuals access to quality and responsive education to support them in achieving their dreams and improving their lives. Consolidated Growth through Education is the role of PUP in the youth's educational development in preparation for their involvement in nation-building. It encompasses the social, economic, industrial, technological, and cultural aspects of life with which individuals synergize themselves to develop an environment necessary for the nation's progress. Being a well-educated and skilled individual is the initial step towards one's success and growth. Governance of PUP is vested upon the Board of Regents, which exercises policy-making functions to carry out the mission and programs of the University by RA 8292 granted by the Commission on Higher Education. An appointed President administers the University by RA 8292. It is assisted by an Executive Vice President and the Vice Presidents for Academic Affairs, Student Services, Administration, Research, Extension and Development, and Finance. This institution started as the Manila Business School (MBS), founded on October 19, 1904, as part of the city school system under the superintendence of C.A. O'Reilley, which response to the demand for training personnel for government service and the felt need to provide skills essential for private employment. In 1908, it was renamed as Philippine School of Commerce (PSC) and merged with the Philippine Normal School (PNS) from 1933 to 1946. By Republic Act 778, the PSC was again changed to the Philippine College of Commerce (PCC) in 1952. Subsequently, the Philippine College of Commerce (PCC) was converted into a chartered state university, now known as the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, by Presidential Decree Number 1341 issued by the Philippines' President April 1, 1978. PUP is a public, non-sectarian, non-profit institution of higher learning primarily tasked with harnessing the tremendous human resources potential of the nation by improving the physical, intellectual and material well-being of the individual through higher occupational, technical and professional instruction and training in the applied arts and sciences related to the fields of commerce, business administration, and technology. The University promotes applied research, advanced studies, and progressive leadership in the stated fields. We also offer ladder-type higher vocational, distance learning (open university system), technical and professional programs in business and distributive arts, education, and the social sciences related to commerce, business administration, and other polytechnic areas. Furthermore, the University takes steps to enrich the academic program in other fields of study and adopts a polytechnic education program designed to provide the individual with employable skills and managerial know-how to make them creative, productive, and self-reliant. PUP operates year-round with two semesters and a summer. Summer sessions depend on the course and the campus. The University employs 1,483 full-time and part-time faculty members, with a few full-time faculty holding administrative positions. Seven hundred seven regular and casual administrative employees provide support services to the University population. The faculty spends two-thirds of their time in teaching and one-third in research and extension activities. One of the primary functions of the University is research, a key component of scholarship and teaching. During the years under review, PUP received and allotted government and private funding to research. With more than twenty campuses serving more than 70,000 students, the Polytechnic University of the Philippines is the largest in terms of the student population. The main campus is named after a national hero, Apolinario Mabini, and is located in Sta. Mesa, Manila - in the middle of a busy metropolitan. But despite this, the environment within its perimeter is a place conducive to learning. The majority of the students belong to the economically challenged level of society. It is the University's commitment to give qualified and talented students access to quality and responsive education to aid them in the achievement of their dreams and improve their lives. Being a well-educated and skilled individual, they will become job seekers and job creators as well, a force of knowledge workers and entrepreneurs. Scholars of the Nation (Iskolar ng Bayan) that is what we call our students because the Philippine Government and other non-government institutions subsidize their tuition and other fees. More than a hundred of the student population are foreigners from China, Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Tanzania, Nigeria, and Ghana. They are enrolled in business, language, statistics, communication, and education courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Students from Korea regularly visit PUP in the summer to take up Intensive English courses. The commitment of its leaders, faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends has formed the cornerstone of this University that has exceeded expectations with every generation of the graduates it has produced since its establishment. Today, PUP is relishing its successes. Its students enjoy unprecedented academic opportunities, and enhanced campus environment, upgraded colleges, state-of-the-art technology, and nationally and internationally recognized programs. PUP celebrated its centenary last October 2004. It has gone far from what it was more than a century ago. This is mainly due to the support given by the government and the PUP Community and its benefactors. With the combined effort, PUP will continue to be a partner in nation-building and poverty alleviation for the marginalized sector of society with quality, responsive, and relevant education as a tool.

The IPN contributes to the nation's social and economic development through a necessary competence-based training set on research, ICT's, and innovation while globally acknowledged for its quality and social impact. To be an inclusive educational institution with international prestige whose community contributes to the scientific, technological, and innovative development of the country's social impact. Students' concerns dictated the initiative to create the symbols that would identify the nascent polytechnic institution. In the years 1944-1945, the National Federation of Technical Students (FNET) launched a call to design a shield representative of the schools that were part of the IPN. The first prize was awarded to student Armando López Fonseca who, with his colleague Jorge Grajales, managed to make his design the winner. The shield was modified in 1948 while preserving its original elements. Motto: "The Technique at the Service of the Fatherland" This phrase was used by some students long before the creation of the IPN. However, it was during the first National Congress of Technical Students, held in the city of Chihuahua in 1937, that the then student Jesus Robles Martinez was elected president of the National Federation of Technical Students (FNET) and proposed a motto in order to represent the ideals of the student organization. The phrase "The Technique at the Service of a Better Country" was initially coined and should be used as a corollary of all of its proposals. This motto was later modified to "The Technique at the Service of the Homeland", which expresses the ideals of the Polytechnic. During the administration of general director Eugenio Méndez Docurro (1959-1962), the celebrations were prepared to commemorate the XXV Anniversary of the IPN Foundation. A call was issued to create the Hymn that would represent the Institute. The winner of the contest in the lyrics was teacher and poet Carmen de la Fuente (1915-2013). Later, the competition was opened to select the music, item in which the professor of musical education from Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) Armando González Domínguez, became the winner. The Polytechnic Hymn was first performed on August 19, 1961, at the XXV Anniversary ceremony in the new Polytechnic of Zacatenco, attended by Adolfo López Mateos, then President of Mexico. In 1932, a plan was elaborated to integrate and give a proper structure to a technical teaching system. Narciso Bassols, Luis Enrique Erro, and Carlos Vallejo Márquez, all IPN alumni, participated prominently in this project. In 1936, Juan de Dios Bátiz and Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, respectively senator in congress and President of Mexico, helped bring this project to fruition, proposing to carry out the postulates in education established during the Mexican Revolution, thus resulting in the creation of the IPN. The IPN was conceived to promote development and equity, support the country's industrialization, and create alternatives for education in every sector of the population and socially disadvantaged groups. It is customary for higher education institutes and their sports clubs to have a mascot. Not to be outdone, the IPN's is a white donkey. There are different versions about its origin, the most popular being that when setting the area where the IPN was to be built, in the old Hacienda de Santo Tomás in the '30s, a white donkey was left in the field. When students and football players from the first team saw the poor animal, it was immediately adopted. Through the years, the white donkey became one of the symbols at IPN, particularly in sports.

With its Faculties of both Engineering and Arts, Tokyo Polytechnic University produces graduates to create "new types of value" through technology and creativity. The University originated as the Konishi Professional School of Photography, founded in 1923 to train technicians and researchers in photography, cutting-edge expressive technology. The school was a pioneer in combining self-expression through photography (art) with photographic techniques (technology). Afterward, it developed into the Tokyo Junior College of Photography and later became the Tokyo College of Photography, receiving its present name in 1977. In this way, the school has been a leader of progress for over 90 years. Our current society is in a time where art and technology are merging more and more. Within these trends, we are set apart by our pursuit of multidisciplinary science, or "hybridization of study fields." Our University has campuses in both Atsugi City, Kanagawa Prefecture, surrounded by nature and commanding a view of the Tanzawa Mountains, and Nakano Ward, Tokyo, an international information center. The Atsugi campus has facilities and equipment for cutting-edge research, drawing researchers from around Japan and the world as a place of learning and scholarship at the highest international level. The Nakano Campus is a cultural and industrial center of the media art on which our nation prides itself. It is furnished with state-of-the-art facilities for studying media art and the functionality to act as a base for information sharing. With an awareness that education is based on students' growth, we always keep in mind the philosophy of "putting students first" and strive for them to truly feel glad that they chose our school and achieved real growth. We also endeavor to awaken intellectual curiosity that makes students interested in their studies, something that every individual has inside; we always aim to encourage students' growth. We emphasize that Tokyo Polytechnic University is an incredibly unique school in Japan in that it possesses Faculties of both Engineering and Arts. This uniqueness and the great potential is an attractive feature not found in other schools. We believe we can contribute to the quality of people's lives through both art and technology by bringing together individuals who wish to challenge themselves to create something new. "Learning is fun, and creating things is interesting." Tokyo Polytechnic University is a place where students can truly understand the meaning of this statement. As we near the 100th year since our school's inception, our teaching staff will continue to create the kind of learning environment that stimulates people's intellectual curiosity.

Politecnico Milano is a scientific-technological university that trains engineers, architects, and industrial designers. The University has always focused on the quality and innovation of its teaching and research, developing a fruitful relationship with business and the productive world using experimental research and technological transfer. Research constitutes a parallel path to that formed by cooperation and alliances with the industrial system. Knowing the world in which you are going to work is a vital requirement for training students. By referring back to the needs of the industrial world and public administration, research is facilitated in following new paths and dealing with constant and rapid innovation. Politecnico takes part in several research, sites, and training projects collaborating with the most qualified European universities. Politecnico's contribution is increasingly being extended to other countries: from North America to Southeast Asia to Eastern Europe. Today the drive to internationalization sees Politecnico Milano taking part in the European and world network of leading technical universities. It offers several courses besides many that are entirely taught in English.

The Polytechnic University of Bari is an Italian public University offering scientific and technological programs. The Polytechnic forms perspective architects, engineers, and industrial designers and issues academic qualifications such as three-year Degree courses (I level), two-year Degree courses (II level), five-year Degree courses, Ph.D.'s as well as I and II level Postgraduate courses. The Polytechnic of Bari is a research University that, according to Italian laws, focuses its activity upon the studies of Engineering and Architecture. It is one of the three Italian Polytechnics and the only one in the South of Italy. It was born in 1990 by combining the College of Engineering of the University of Bari and the newborn College of Architecture. The College of Engineering dates back to 1943/44, and its first courses were offered while Italy was still divided during the second world war. Many faculty members of the Polytechnic of Bari are top international scientists in several research areas, traditional engineering ones, and innovative ICT ones. The students at the Polytechnic of Bari exceed 11,000 in number and are enrolled in first- and second-level degree courses and doctoral ones. Such courses encompass all main areas of engineering and architecture, as well as industrial design. They are offered on the main campus at Bari as well as in Taranto's one. Students at the Polytechnic of Bari can spend extended periods abroad within several cooperation programs with outstanding foreign universities. In some cases, there are Double Degree programs that allow students to obtain at the same time a second-level-degree diploma at Bari and a Master of Science from the hosting foreign university. The Polytechnic of Bari is a challenging university that requires motivation and hard work from its students, who are compensated with a high professional knowledge that allows them to enter the job market quickly. The Polytechnic of Bari strengthens day by day its relationships with industries, both in terms of joint research programs and in terms of supporting and placing its students and graduates. Some companies share public/private research and industrial-development labs with and within the Polytechnic of Bari. The joint efforts allow them to obtain advanced research results and make students aware of an industrial environment and ready to join the work market. Starting this year, the Polytechnic of Bari, Bari's s, and its traditional cultural activities will be equipped with polygyny, the new on campus gymnasium which will allow students to enjoy a more complete on campus life, in cooperation with the university sports center. In conclusion, a young and dynamic technical university for students willing to build their future on sound bases and a place where students can become mature European and world citizens while performing advanced research in the main areas of science and applied technique.

Politecnico di Torino is known both in Italy and abroad as a leading institution to study engineering and architecture. Tradition combines with innovation to make its campus a stimulating environment offering a wealth of opportunities. Our University has around 32,000 students, with 50% from outside the region and about 15% foreign - the highest percentage in Italy. Our degrees are internationally recognized. Students can choose to follow degree courses taught in English or, thanks to our links with some of the most prestigious universities worldwide, undertake periods of study abroad as part of their course. Students choose Politecnico di Torino for its established reputation, being highly selective, and sometimes even "tough." However, we do reward students for merit and provide a strong basis for future career success. Students who are looking for a thorough education that is relevant to the job market or who are interested in research and a multidisciplinary approach will be attracted to what our University has to offer. Graduates from Politecnico of Turin receive an education that goes far beyond technical knowledge. Politecnico di Torino offers a multicultural study environment and has a close relationship with businesses, which share our premises and work with us on many projects allowing students to gain work experience while still at University. The "Cittadella Politecnica" is a new campus area where research, teaching, and training go hand in hand with local and student services as well as financial and cultural activities. It also houses the Business Research Center, where various international companies have established their most advanced research centers, and the Polo Venture Capital provides real opportunities for developing research. The new areas also contain classrooms, study rooms, a canteen, and a sports center which will open shortly. Politecnico di Torino is, therefore, a real research university, where education and research combine to meet the real needs of the local area and economy and, most importantly, those of the students. The structure of the Politecnico di Torino is composed of the University Governing Bodies and by the Teaching, the Scientific and the Administrative areas, according to the model specified in the Statute of 2011, in order to have a shared and efficient management. The structure envisages more Governing Bodies: the Rector, the Academic Senate, the Board of Governors, and the Director-General. Moreover, there are two controlling bodies (the Evaluation Board and the Board of Auditors), Equality, Non-Discrimination, and Anti-Harassment Committee, an University Ombudsman, and an Academic Staff Disciplinary Committee. The Director-General manages and organizes services, instrumental resources, and technical-administrative staff in the University. The administration, supporting all the activities of the University, is composed of areas and services, which are functionally organized according to their action field.

The presence of a university in Ancona is a relatively recent historical development resulting from cultural, social, economic, and historical forces. In the Middle Ages, Ancona already boasted a School of Law, and in 1562 the town received authorization from Pope Pius V to found a "Studium Generale cuiuscumque Facultatis et Scientiae," offering instruction in Civil and Canon Law and Theology. The pontiff also bestowed the privilege of adding additional faculties, and the members of the faculty were invested with the power to grant the various academic degrees. Moreover, faculty and students alike enjoyed the privileges, prerogatives, and immunities granted to a "Studium Generale," like those in Bologna or Padua. The new "Studium" flourished in a fervor of study for a century, followed by a progressive decline starting in the second half of the XVII century when students from the wealthier families in the town chose to attend the more famous "Studia" in Rome and Bologna. This decline culminated in the first closing of the "Studium" in 1739.

Being the oldest engineering higher school in the Asian part of Russia, Tomsk Polytechnic University has become an alma mater for generations of graduates, brilliant researchers, inspiring political and public figures, gifted teachers, and excellent engineers. Today TPU is a national research university that places particular emphasis on advanced engineering education, creation of resource-efficient technologies, internationalization, and integration of research and academic activities. Tomsk Polytechnic University was founded in 1896 as Tomsk Technological Institute of Emperor Nicholas II. The first technical higher educational institution in the Asian part of Russia was led by Professor Efim Zubashev, who laid the foundation for developing the best traditions of TPU as a large Siberian center for education and research. Tomsk Technological Institute (TTI) ensured the education and training of highly qualified engineers, strengthening the industry and economy in Siberia, the Far East, and the CIS countries (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia, etc.). TTI established excellent schools in chemistry, mechanical engineering and materials science, physics and mathematics, electrical and power engineering, mining and geology, and building and architecture. The University became the winner of an innovative educational programs competition in the framework of Priority National Project “Education.” The objective of the TPU Innovative Programme included the education of elite specialists and professional teams of the world-class in priority areas of science, engineering, and technology. In 2007-2008 approximately one bln. Rubles was allocated for its implementation. Within two years of Innovative Educational Programme implementation, TPU purchased modern specialized facilities for 660 mln.rub., ensured the mass transition to licensed software, modernized 155 classrooms, developed 678 items of innovative educational methodical resources, provided professional development to 1043 staff members, including 393 in foreign universities and research centers. Tomsk Polytechnic University was among the winners of the 1st round of the competition to award the status of national research university (NRU) organized by the RF Ministry of Education and Science. 1.8 bln. Rubles were allocated by the RF Ministry of Education and Science to implement a university development program until 2018. Tomsk Polytechnic University is a research center and one of the leaders in resource-efficient technology, whose achievements will be used for solving global problems of humankind on the way to its sustainable development. System of Goals: World-class science and research in the field of resource efficiency Globally competitive engineering education Dissemination of the best academic and engineering practices Close collaboration with industry and other stakeholders towards innovation Training and engagement of the distinguished students, scientists, and teachers Positioning Tomsk as a unique world-class research and educational center Transition into a university focusing on graduate and postgraduate education Efficient resource management Social accountability and responsibility at the regional, national, and global levels. The Mission of National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University is to enhance the competitiveness of the country by providing internationalization and integration of research, education and training applied in the process of educating engineering elite, generating new knowledge and innovative ideas, developing resource-efficient technologies (adopted by the University Academic Board on 05.04.2011). The University values are as follows: Freedom and enthusiasm in expanding knowledge in the priority fields of science for the benefit of humankind and wellbeing while observing professional ethics Innovations in science and education in striving for excellence in the professional areas Independent thinking and creativity in addressing challenges faced by the University, the country, and the whole world Social responsibility for the results of the University activity Staff involvement in all fields of the University activities allows the teachers, other employees, and students, both the present and future ones, to fulfill their full potential Unity of the University alumni, students, and employees, based on century-long traditions established throughout our history A corporate culture that provides an open atmosphere and a comfortable university environment Freedom of personality is manifested in eliminating any racial, ethnic, religious, gender, political, or another form of discrimination.

St. Petersburg and Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University! Its RAEX ranking confirms our University's position as a world-class University: 11th among the top 100 Russia's universities and 36th place in EECA University Ranking. Our University has always been among the leaders of higher education in St. Petersburg. Our University is situated in one of the most beautiful cities in the world! The second-largest city in Russia, St. Petersburg is rightfully called the cultural capital of Russia. A metropolitan city of five million people, it every year attracts nearly seven million tourists, of which about one half are foreign guests coming from all over the world. St. Petersburg was founded by the first Emperor of Russia, Tsar Peter the Great, as a multicultural city, always welcoming guests and specialists from other countries. Polytechnic University retains and strengthens this tradition, which has become one of our University's essential features. More than 6000 international students study at our University, and this number keeps growing every year. Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University sees its mission in realizing the national policy in the sphere of higher education in the best possible way. One of the directions of this policy is creating a new economy, i.e., the economy of knowledge, leadership, and innovation. The key elements of such an economy are highly qualified engineers competent with advanced technologies, capable of solving complex industrial tasks, and willing to propel Russia's economic development to the next level. The innovative knowledge economy's technological needs require engineers and technical personnel of the new generation, with core competencies in a broad scale of disciplines. Realizing this, Polytechnic University sets the mission to train specialists proficient in global and systems thinking, educated and skilled in specialized knowledge and inter-and multidisciplinary areas, and geared up for continuing education and self-improvement. Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University is a major Russian technical university with many long-standing high-profile scientific schools the University has an impressive track record of undisputed achievements in the research, education, and innovation spheres. Based on the key global trends in research and development, technology, and education, the University targets to join the world's top 100 universities by 2020, thus aligning with the world leaders of education. The ambitious Russian Academic Excellence Project 5-100 sets precisely this target for Polytechnic University. The strategic goal of SPbPU is the modernization and development of the University, turning it into a worldwide competitive research and education center integrating interdisciplinary research and world-class technologies and belonging to the leading group of world universities. Polytechnic University sees its overall mission both in ensuring its competitive advantages in the national and international markets of educational services and reliable partnership with the state to enhance Russia's economic capacities and international influence. To do this, it aims to become a globally competitive research and education center, join the world's top universities, make provisions for forward-looking training of new generations of specialists, and play an instrumental role in technological modernization, multidisciplinary researches, and advanced pan-industry technologies.

Our University is situated in one of the most beautiful cities in the world! The second-largest city in Russia, St. Petersburg is rightfully called the cultural capital of Russia. A metropolitan city of five million people, it every year attracts nearly seven million tourists, of which about one half are foreign guests coming from all over the world. St. Petersburg was founded by the first Emperor of Russia, Tsar Peter the Great, as a multicultural city, always welcoming guests and specialists from other countries. Polytechnic University retains and strengthens this tradition, which has become one of our University's essential features. More than 6000 international students study at our University, and this number keeps growing every year. Polytechnic University has a very prominent place in the global academic community. The University is a partner with many academic institutions and industrial companies. More than 400 partner universities from 68 countries, over 100 world's leading companies have direct contracts with Polytechnic University. Annually, the University hosts numerous high-level international symposiums and conferences and publishes tons of scientific magazines and scholarly books. The University campus consists of more than 100 educational and research buildings, a House of Scientists in Lesnoye, the International Student Campus, 23 dormitories, and a sports complex. The historic part of the campus is situated in a beautiful park that has always been a place of inspiration and love for many generations of students and faculty. We are happy to invite those who are interested in good education to come to our University and benefit not only from its highly professional faculty, up-to-date university equipment, and other facilities, but also have the great chance to live in our unique city with its famed museums, like the world-famous Hermitage, the Russian Museum with a great collection of Russian art like which one cannot see anywhere else, the Kunskamera, a museum founded by Peter the Great himself, and many others. Millions of tourists and guests come every year to St. Petersburg for a good reason, and you might have a chance to live and study here and keep the memory of its beauty for many years ahead. Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University strives to take full responsibility for implementing the national policy for higher education. In other aspects, this policy is targeted at creating a new economy, an economy of knowledge, leadership, and innovation. It follows that the critical role here is to be played by expert engineers competent with state-of-the-art technologies, capable of solving complex industry-related tasks, and willing to propel Russia's economic development to the next level. An innovative knowledge-based economy's technological needs require the next generation of engineers and other technical personnel to exhibit a wide range of core competencies. Acknowledging this, Polytechnic University purports to train specialists proficient in global systems thinking, knowledgeable and skilled in specialized, inter-, multi-, and transnational areas, dedicated to continuing education and self-improvement. Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University is a large Russian technical university, encompassing several long-standing, high-profile scientific schools and holding an impressive track record of undisputed achievements in research, education, and innovation. Drawing on critical global trends in research and development, technology and education, the ambitious "Russian Academic Excellence Project 5-100" issued the challenge to the Polytechnic University to join the world's top 100 universities by the year 2020 and thus win a position at the cutting edge of the global education. The strategic goal of SPbPU is the modernization and development of the University into a leading globally competitive research and education center for integrating interdisciplinary research and world-class technologies. Polytechnic University sees its overall mission in ensuring its continued competitive advantage in the domestic and foreign markets of educational services and providing reliable assistance to the state in reinforcing Russia's economic power and international presence. It aims to become a globally competitive research and education center, attain a ranking among the world's top universities, render advanced training to new generations of personnel, and play an instrumental role in the technological modernization of strategic industries Interscience and advanced pan-industry technology. One of our main objectives is to train world-class specialists to work on cutting-edge production lines combining research, project, and business activities. At the present moment, we provide the best quality educational services. The educational system of the University has been completely reorganized. Firstly, the new international curricula in Russian and English language have been developed and introduced in co-operation with the leading foreign universities. Secondly, we are currently testing and introducing practice-oriented applied bachelor's degree programs, including interdisciplinary project work of our students based on the CDIO concept and involving our technological and industrial partners in the process of education. An applied bachelor's degree and a university degree enable our graduates to obtain a full set of skills and expertise necessary to start working in their major fields immediately and without any additional on-site training. Thus, the system of training "brand-new" specialists is brought to life and helps them overcome the challenges of modern industry and adapt to the real economy's conditions. Our University offers our students excellent opportunities for self-fulfillment and practical activity. Due to the effective system of an international educational partnership with a range of foreign universities, our students have a chance to get a degree from the foreign partner university together with our own. Therefore, our mission is to create and enhance human capital to ensure Russia's sustainable development and economic prosperity.

Perm National Research Polytechnic University was founded in 1953 as Perm Polytechnic Institute. In 1992 it was among the first polytechnic institutes in Russia that gained the status of State Technical University. In 2007 the University became one of the winners of the innovational education programs contest. In 2009 together with other 29 universities in Russia, awarded the status of "National Research University" by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science due to competitive selection. University has nine faculties, eight institutes, seven centers for advanced training, 29 research and education centers, 36 teaching and research laboratories, five engineering centers. University offers 187 educational programs for higher professional education, including 57 master's programs and 54 postgraduate programs. Annually over 5,500 specialists graduate from the University. In July 2012, our University was audited by TUV SUD Management Service GmbH, which confirmed the ISO 9001:2008 standard for the second time. 9-11June 2014, the "Russian Register" Certification Association conducted an inspection audit of the quality management system at PNRPU and its Chaikovsky branch. University QMS was found to be in full compliance with ISO 9001:2008 for the development and provision of educational services, conducting scientific research and development, and technological, design, construction, and assembly works and services. Appropriate certificates were issued. In more than 50 years, the Perm National Research Polytechnic University has contributed significantly to education, science, and culture promoted in Perm Kray, the Urals, and Russia. As a legal successor and tradition keeper of the Perm Institute of Mines as well as the Perm Technical Institute, the University has become a multifield institution of higher education that provides high-quality training and retraining of workers in a wide range of technical, engineering specializations as well as natural science, economic-management and socio-humanities. In the time of knowledge economy and innovations, the University provides training for new generation specialists, shapes modern progressive world-view, develops all-human and professional competencies that allow the graduates to get adapted to Russia's socio-cultural life first-rate countries. Based on the competence and experience of the faculties, the mission of the University is the provision of the following points: The satisfaction of citizen and society needs in high-qualitative higher, graduate and additional professional education Realization of fundamental and applied scientific researches on the level of international achievements Stimulation of knowledge and technology promotion, development of innovation-based market infrastructure Personal versatile education of a future specialist showing a high level of expertise, culture, refinement, social activity, and features of a patriot citizen Arrangement of conditions to make information resources and generated knowledge accessible to the population. The University is going on to develop its activities based on the unities of educational, scientific and innovational processes and pass ahead of educational content development of practical professional activity as well as take hands-on activities in the formation of global education and research space, contribute to the success of its graduates in the competitive environments.

Platov South Russian state polytechnic university (NPI) was established on October 18, 1907, with the most excellent approval of Nicholas II as Don Polytechnic Institute. DPI was the first higher educational institution in the south of Russia. The university is the only higher educational institution in Russia created at the Cossacks and for the Cossack's initiative. Cossacks of the Great Don Army collected half of all funds spent on the opening of DPI. SRSPU(NPI) has made a significant contribution to the development of engineering education in Russia, having trained more than 150 thousand experts. Currently, the SRSPU (NPI) necessary activities are the large-scale fundamental and applied scientific research, innovative technologies aimed at training the highly qualified engineering personnel corresponding to the government's strategic problems in ensuring the transition from the resource economy to the economy of innovative type. Vocational training is conducted at 10 Departments and five institutes of the primary higher education institution and in 2 branches. Annually more than two thousand school-leavers enter SRSPU (NPI) on the places financed from the federal budget, including about 1,5 thousand bachelors and specialists and about five hundred masters. In 2016 in SRSPU (NPI), the admission on budgetary places was carried out in 35 majors for bachelors (specialties). The postgraduate vocational education of highly qualified personnel is carried out in postgraduate training programs for candidates of sciences and doctors of the university's sciences. Annually SRSPU (NPI) postgraduate training programs train more than 300 candidates of sciences on 54 majors; also, there is a doctoral training course on 21 majors. There are 7 Thesis committees on 22 majors at the university. SRSPU(NPI) is actively implementing the system of advanced training for the country's military-industrial complex based on the university participation in military R & D, based on the latest developments of modern science and technology. Its target is a comprehensive training of the system engineer - the modern engineering expert of a complete profile capable of solving production problems in the Russian economy's current conditions. One of the most critical components of university development is the organized, strategic partnership system, which creates conditions for improving educational services' quality and competitiveness. The well-known educational institutions of Russia and the leading countries of the world, public and non-profit organizations, and domestic and foreign enterprises of various production branches are all among strategic partners of SRSPU(NPI). Among the SRSPU (NPI) priorities is the formation of an integrated system of professional education for the Cossacks. In October 2013, SRSPU (NPI) and the Cossack Military Community, the "Great Don Army," have signed an agreement on educational, youth, and social policies cooperation to prepare the Cossacks to bear the government and municipal service. In 2014, the university created the Local Cossack Community "Platov" of the District Cossack Community "Novocherkassk district" of the Cossack Military Community the "Great Don Army." At the SRSPU(NPI) Military Institute, the Platov Cossack Hundred composed of 4 platoons has been created. Along with the higher engineering and military education, the Platov hundred's Cossacks master the additional all-developing "Social Management in the Cossack Societies" program to promote the Cossacks' traditions and culture for further employment in the management structures of the Cossack regions. Today we certainly can say that considering the South Federal District's capital, NPI being the first university of South Russia, it is still the center of science, education, and culture of the region and remains one of the country's leading higher educational institutions. And this is its competitive advantage and uniqueness.

The Polytechnic Institute of Braganca (IPB) is a Portuguese University of Applied Sciences with 7000 students and 500 teachers and researchers. It has an internationalization program with widely recognized success, including the annual mobility of more than 900 incoming and outgoing students and 300 teaching staff members. Nowadays the IPB is a multicultural institution where 26% of its students are international students from all over the World. IPB is also recognized for its performance in applied research and regional engagement. The Polytechnic Institute of Braganca (IPB) is a Portuguese Higher Education Public Institution with 7000 undergraduate and master students, embracing a wide area of knowledge and technology, including agriculture sciences, arts and sports, education and teachers’ training, informatics and engineering, administration and management, health, communication, and tourism. The IPB belongs to the European Network for Universities of Applied Sciences (UASnet), which main objectives include the transferability of professional skills and the integration of applied research in their professional and technological education mission. In 2011, the European Commission has awarded the ECTS Label to the IPB, acknowledging the quality of the information provided in terms of the degree programs offered and the management of student mobility within the European Higher Education Area. In 2013, IPB has been awarded also the DS Label. The purpose of the Diploma Supplement (DS) is to provide sufficient independent data to improve international transparency and fair academic and professional recognition of qualifications. Besides the academic programs taught in the Portuguese language, the IPB also offers bachelor and master programs fully lectured in English, as well as Portuguese language and culture courses for foreign students. The IPB was awarded the Diploma Supplement Label by the European Commission for the period 2013-2016. This label recognizes the quality of the diploma supplement, the transparency of procedures, and its importance in the facilitation of mobility and employability of the recent graduates, as well as the academic and professional recognition of the qualifications. The IPB has already been awarded the ECTS Label for the period 2011-2014. The ECTS Label acknowledges the quality of the information provided in terms of the degree programs offered and the management of student mobility within the European Higher Education Area. The IPB is proud to be one of the few national and international institutions that have been distinguished by the European Commission with two quality labels. Research and Innovation (R&I) activities carried out at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB): Research Topics and Units, Technology Offers, Publications and Scientific Repository, and available Research Scholarships. The R&I activities at IPB are in line with the priorities defined at the European, national and regional levels. Namely, with the reference documents relating to Smart Specialisation Strategies, the European R&I Programme Horizon 2020, the national Operational Programmes under Portugal 2020 (and in particular Norte 2020), and the Letter of Commitments for the Development of the Tras-os-Montes Region.

The Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA) is a Public Higher Education Institution established on December 19th, 1994, and located in Barcelos, a city in the north of Portugal. Aware of its purpose and responsibilities, IPCA’s mission is to contribute towards the development of society, stimulate cultural creation, research, and applied research, and promote reflective and humanistic thought. It also aims to provide areas of knowledge to attractive professional activities at the national and international levels, promoting mobility, employability, and reciprocal relationships with the community. IPCA offers a wide range of courses, such as Bachelor's degrees, Professional Masters's, Professional Higher Education Courses, and non-degree courses. Oriented towards lifelong learning, its training offer includes daytime, after-work, and distance, learning classes. Over 50% of IPCA’s students attend after-work courses, which highlights IPCA’s strategy to suit the needs of those already in the labor market. IPCA aims to ensure more training for more students, reaching new audiences, and training in different areas, this way contributing to the increase of the population’s level of qualification. IPCA has a teaching and non-teaching qualified staff that is decisive to its success. The qualification of the teaching staff, oriented towards advanced scientific research and the development of pedagogical skills, is an ongoing concern ensuring thereby the required ratios in terms of the number of Ph.D. holders required in higher education institutions. Scientific activity is also developed through research centers in distinct training areas, namely the Research Centre on Accounting and Taxation, recognized by FCT. To provide the appropriate social, physical, and environmental conditions to favor the teaching, learning, and well-being of its academic community, IPCA has done a huge investment in modern facilities that provide a range of support services to the proper functioning of the Institution. IPCA has a campus where the Management School, Technology School, and Design School are located, as well as other support services such as the Library, the Administrative and Financial Division, the Academic Services, the Information Systems Division, the Human Resources Division, the Procurement and Infrastructure Office, the Internal Control Office, the Legal Counsel Office, the Communication and Image Office, the International Relations Office, the Evaluation and Quality Office, the Entrepreneurship and Business Office, the Social Services and the canteen. The Praxis XXI building, where the academic community can find the Language Center, the Companies Spin-off, the Business Simulation Centre, and the Europe Direct Information Centre (CIED), is also located on the IPCA campus.