Universidade Aberta

The Universidade Aberta (Portuguese for Open University) or UAb is a Portuguese ambit apprenticeship accessible university, created in 1988. Its address are amid in Lisbon, it has two bounded centres in Coimbra and Porto, and abstraction centres all over Portugal and in Mozambique.
Students are appropriate to be at atomic 21 years old, and to accept completed accessory education. Candidates over 25 with no accessory amount can be accepted afterwards accepting anesthetized the civic university admission assay or ad hoc examination.
Thousands of students, from all over the world, are enrolled in ambit apprenticeship undergraduate programmes. Several hundred Portuguese acceptance chase post-graduation contiguous courses.
Together with its capital activities in teaching and accurate research, Universidade Aberta promotes the Portuguese accent and culture, abnormally in Portuguese-speaking countries.
Universidade Aberta is one of the better civic producers of university teaching materials. The printed materials, which aggregate the amount of the University's courses, are usually complemented by videocassettes, audiocassettes, CD-ROMs, Internet and TV and radio broadcasts.
Face-to-face and alloyed modes (including video-conferencing) are acclimated for postgraduate programmes. Counselling casework by telephone, fax and e-mail are accessible in the university and at the abstraction centres.
Students of Universidade Aberta accept their own physique of representatives.
Its focus is on the humanities, amusing and behavioral sciences.

University of Aveiro

The University of Aveiro (Portuguese: Universidade de Aveiro) is a accessible university, in accession to accouterment polytechnic education, amid in the Portuguese city-limits of Aveiro. Formed in 1973 creation, it includes a apprentice citizenry of about 12,500, broadcast a allotment of 58 graduate, 40 Masters of Science and 25 PhD programs, broadcast by departments and free sections, with specialized faculties. It is an Analysis & Development university, with analysis departments developing programmes in axiological and activated mathematics, physics, chemistry, telecommunications, robotics, bioinformatics, sea sciences, materials, design, business administering and automated engineering.
The capital campus and adjacent Administering and Accounting Institute, are amid in the city-limits centre of Aveiro. There are external/regional campuses in Águeda (Higher Apprenticeship Technological and Management Academy of Águeda) and Oliveira de Azeméis (Higher Apprenticeship Academy of North Aveiro). It serves as a pole for the inter-university Doctoral program, forth with the universities of Porto and Minho. Its chip Masters in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering was the aboriginal Portuguese IT aggressive European Accredited Engineering Masters (EUR-ACE) by the European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education.Announced in a accent at the Museum of Aveiro, the accident was captivated to mark the aboriginal affair of the agency establishing the University of Aveiro, that included José Simão and added associates of bookish association and Aveiro. The aboriginal pedagogical and accurate activities began in 1974, with aboriginal canicule classes in the telecommunication course, absolute 46 students.
The alum courses accustomed at the University of Aveiro (UA) were the aboriginal courses in avant-garde areas, that were not explored by acceptable universities at the time in Portugal, but important to bounded or civic initiatives.By 1976 there were courses in ecology science and education, accustomed sciences and education, mathematics and education, Portuguese-English and apprenticeship and Portuguese-French and educaiton. The apprentice citizenry included 338. It was alone in that year that the aboriginal basement were accustomed in the breadth after accepted as the University Campus of Santigao (Portuguese: Campus Universitário de Santiago).
During the 1977-1978 address year, there was a angle to actualize a pilot project: the aboriginal Centro Integrado de Formação de Professores (CIFOP), today the Chip Unit for Continuing Apprenticeship (Portuguese: Unidade Integrada de Formação Continuada, UINFOC), in the country. At UA, the ambition was to authorize a training convention for professors/teachers, from baby apprenticeship to accessory school, application the latest pedagogical assets and avant-garde methods. The activity was headed by Professor João Evangelista Loureiro, the above vice-rector at UA.
A aeon of alliance occurred at the university in the 1980s, consistent in centralized adjustment and the conception of axiological bodies (during the authorization of the additional abbey Dr. José Mesquita Rodrigues) as able-bodied as the cessation of the acquirement of acreage for the campus, after completed during the authorization of Dr. Renato Araújo. By the end of the 1980s (specifically 24 September 1988), the law for university autonomy, acceptable the alliance of the university amoebic laws, and homologation of the university statutes, in June 1989. Meanwhile, a aggregation accommodating by artist Nuno Portas, had amorphous selecting a allotment of assorted celebrated Portuguese architects in 1986 to architecture the Santigao University Campus, that fell in band with their attack to accord the structures with the architectural ancestry of the city. Many of the buildings, therefore, were advised by internationally accustomed architects, a allotment of them: Alcino Soutinho, Álvaro Sisa Vieira, Pedro Ramalho, Luís Ramalho, José Maria Lopo Prata, Eduardo Souto Moura, Adalberto Dias, Rebello de Andrade, Jorge Kol de Carvalho, Gonçalo Byrne and Figueiredo Dias, whose works accept annually been visited by civic and all-embracing specialists.[By the mid-1980s teaching had broadcast with avant-garde courses in Environment, Automated Management, Music, Tourism, Chemical Industry and New Technologies.
The 1990s was apparent by a new appearance at UA, with priorities redefined to position the university appear internationalization and cooperation, namely European programs, reinforcing relationships with Portuguese-speaking and Latin states, and architecture protocols amid all-embracing institutes, organs and companies abroad. In alongside there were initiatives in continuing education, ambit acquirements and convalescent apprentice achievement and quality.In 1994, an Internet seek engine, SAPO, was created in this university. Since 1998, the University has been developing an ecological motor vehicle, Ícaro, aiming to run the better ambit with the aboriginal bulk of captivated fuel, accepting alternate in the all-embracing antagonism Shell Eco-marathon.
During the additional authorization of the fourth rector, Dr. Júlio Pedrosa, the apprentice citizenry was 8000, and the university had the a lot of amount of internationally accustomed programs. During 25th ceremony celebrations, UA avant-garde with the affiliation of polytechnical abstraction into aboriginal training programs. The conception of the Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Águeda (in 1997), the affiliation of the Instituto de Contabilidade e Administração de Aveiro (in 1999), the accomplishing of the Escola Superior de Saúde (in 2000), and the accomplishing of a polytechnical academy in the arctic district, the Escola Superior Aveiro-Norte], was allotment of this action of integration.In 2012-13, it was ranked 351-400 in the Times Higher Apprenticeship World University rankings. Rankings
The aboriginal authorization of its sixth rector, Dr. Maria Helena Nazaré, was apparent by the alpha of able affairs in technology (2002-2003). Since 2009, it has hosted a SexLab aimed at belief animal health

Catholic University of Portugal

The Catholic University of Portugal (Portuguese: Universidade Católica Portuguesa, pronounced: [univɨɾsiˈdad(ɨ) kɐˈtɔlikɐ puɾtuˈɡezɐ]), aswell referred to as Católica or UCP for short, is the alone concordatary university (non-state-run university with concordatary status) of the Catholic Church, in Portugal.

Although it is just one university, UCP is organized as a university system, fabricated up of four above bounded centres: Lisbon (the headquarters), Beiras (Caldas da Rainha and Viseu), Braga, and Porto. These cover 18 faculties, schools and institutes, which are the basal apprenticeship and analysis units. Besides the four bounded centres in Portugal, UCP aswell has the University of Saint Joseph in Macau as its affiliate.The Catholic University of Portugal was accustomed in 1967 by decree of the Holy See (Lusitanorum Nobilissima Gens), at the appeal of the Portuguese Bishop's appointment and beneath Concordat Law. It was founded in 1967 and acquired official accepting in 1971.

Its aboriginal basic Faculty was the Jesuit-owned and run Faculty of Philosophy of Braga (Northern Portugal). However, the University was anon continued to Lisbon area it opened, in 1968, the Faculty of Theology and, in 1971, the Faculty of Human Sciences.

The Portuguese government's official accepting of UCP occurred in 1971, via decree-law 307/71, which accustomed the Catholic University as on a par with the added Portuguese universities and conferred on the degrees it grants - anon Licentiate, Master and Doctorate, - the aforementioned amount and the aforementioned furnishings as those awarded by State universities.

The backward 1970s and 1980s saw the enactment and development in Portugal of a abreast endemic area in college apprenticeship (including both universities and polytechnics). Within that context, there has been a ambiguous accepting of the characteristic position captivated by the Catholic University - a public, non-State and non-profit-seeking institution.

Nowadays, and afterward the accepted trend in Portugal and abroad, UCP enjoys a ample amount of freedom in the conception and active of new campuses, commonsense and courses.

Currently it has, a part of others, the able-bodied accepted courses of Business, Economics, Architecture, Law, Media and Cultural Studies, Civil Engineering and Dental Medicine.

University Institute of Lisbon

ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, abbreviated ISCTE-IUL (in Portuguese ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), is a Portuguese accessible university institute, amid in the centre of Lisbon in the University City campus.

In the past, ISCTE-IUL was alleged Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa abbreviated ISCTE (in English Superior Convention of Business and Labour Sciences), but that name was alone in 2009 if ISCTE-IUL was afflicted to a university convention of basal attributes (along with the University of Porto and the University of Aveiro).ISCTE-IUL was accustomed in Lisbon in 1972 as ISCTE[2] application the adroitness and accessories of the Instituto de Estudos Sociais (Institute of Social Studies, founded in 1963) as a aboriginal footfall appear a new and avant-garde accessible university in Lisbon. Its present appellation dates from 2009.

From its conception ISCTE-IUL was accustomed to admission the bachelor's amount and the licenciatura degree, which was accepted afterwards achievement of a four to 5 years continued affairs that generally appropriate autograph a final argument and appropriately was almost agnate to the accepted master's degree, instituted as allotment of the Bologna process. From 1983 onwards, ISCTE-IUL was aswell accustomed to admission the master's degree, which was academy than the accepted Bologna action master's amount but still lower than a doctorate degree).
What was to be the aboriginal academy of a never completed beyond projected university (due to the carnation anarchy of 1974) consistently remained as a non-integrated University Convention - bearings that was institutionalized in 1988. From that date onwards, ISCTE-IUL grants all bookish degrees, absolute Bachelors, Masters, PhDs, Honorary doctorates and Habilitations (called Agregação in Portuguese).

ISCTE-IUL is today allotment of both the Fundação das Universidades Portuguesas (Foundation of Portuguese Universities) and the Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas (Council of Rectors of the Portuguese Universities). It is aswell one of the few accessible universities in Portugal with a basal nature,[3] calm with the University of Porto and the University of Aveiro.