Aveiro University (UA), was created in 1973, and is located in the northern central region of Portugal. Since its creation, it has been regarded as one of the most innovative and dynamic universities in Portugal. Nowadays, it has almost 15.000 students distributed across 58 graduation courses, over 40 MSc courses and 25 PhD programs. Is a leading R&D  university, having a large number of active research units developing programmes targeted at both the international business community and the significant national industry.

Faculties

Administratively, the teaching and research activities are distributed by Departments and Autonomous Sections, both with specialized faculty, that may cooperate in any type of activity. UA has 17 Academic Departments which work together in an inter-disciplinary manner according to their academic and research affinities.

The Department is the unit of teaching and research that groups together teaching staff in similar scientific profiles, taking responsibility for a particular group of course units that are integrated into one or more study programs.
› Environment and Planning
› Biology
› Education Sciences
› Communication and Art
› Didactics and Education Technology
› Economics, Management and Industrial Engineering
› Electronics and Telecommunications
› Ceramics and Glass Engineering
› Mechanical Engineering
› Physics
› Earth Sciences
› Languages and Cultures
› Mathematics
› Chemistry
› Civil Engineering
› Health Sciences e)
› Social, Legal and Political Sciences

Apart from University-level higher education, the University of Aveiro also offers Polytechnic-level higher education in its four Higher Schools which are distributed throughout the Aveiro District, in order to meet the regions’ needs for graduates of professional courses.
› Higher School of Design, Management and Production Technologies of Aveiro North
› Higher School of Health of the University of Aveiro
› Águeda Higher School of Technology and Management
› Higher School of Accounting and Administration of Aveiro

International Programms and Students

A number of University networks are using the ERASMUS programme as a basis to develop enhanced forms of student exchange.

Apart from that, UA is also part of CAMPUS EUROPAE. This initiative has brought together 18 universities from around Europe to create a two-year exchange programme with strong links to regional business communities, reinforced langauge training and advances in academic recognition issues.

Another such network is the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU), which, among its many activities, is developing opportunities for study combined with internships in local and regional business and industry and 1st degree twinning programmes.

The University of Aveiro welcomes applications from foreign students who are already registered at a Higher Education Institution outside Portugal and who wish to take some course units / modules from our wide range of undergraduate programmes. A typical study period lasts between 3 and 9 months.

In order to make the necessary arrangements, there must be a written agreement between the University of Aveiro and the home Institution of the applicant, which describes the terms and conditions of the “mobility period” (sometimes called the “exchange period”).

You can find out more information about this programmes at the international office webpage.

Scholarships

International candidates should be aware that many countries have research institutes, private enterprises, state and semi-state bodies or local authority / government departments who can offer scholarships and grants.
More information

The University of Aveiro offers a very limited number of scholarships for postgraduate study and research. International students are eligible to apply. Further information can be obtained through Research Institute of the University of Aveiro.

The University of Aveiro may offer limited financial assistance to exchange students in cases where there are previously defined funding arrangements set out in the inter-institutional protocols and agreements. Information about these arrangements should be requested at the home institution of the candidate.

Find more information about funding opportunities for foreign students here.

Contacts

Universidade de Aveiro
Campus Universitário de Santiago
3810-193 Aveiro
Portugal
Telefone (+351) 234 370 200
Fax (+351) 234 370 985
E-mail: gri@ua.pt

Official Website

Please note that Mladiinfo does not give scholarships or any financial support, but only informs about different opportunities. Click on the direct link to the official page above to apply for the program.

The Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) was created in 1930, as the result of the union of older schools. Nowadays, it comprises seven different faculties and institutes, in many different areas. Around 20,000 undergraduate students and 3500 postgraduate students currently attend the seven Schools of the UTL. Despite being one of the largest Portuguese state universities, the UTL has always adopted a decentralised organisational model,  giving all faculties and institutes an ample degree of autonomy in pedagogic, scientific, administrative and financial matters.

Faculties

UTL schools have their own management bodiesmeaning that their management structure is organised by departments or speciality areas. All UTL schools run specialist centres, institutes, units or other bodies dedicated to research, cooperation, international relations, business links and the labour market.

* FMV – Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
* ISA – School of Agriculture
* ISEG – School of Economics and Management
* IST – School of Engineering
* ISCSP – School of Social and Political Sciences
* FMH – Faculty of Human Kinetics
* FA – Faculty of Architecture

International Programms and Students

UTL has an extensive cooperation network worldwide and has been acknowledge for its teaching and research achievements internationally as well as theparticipation in national and international contact networks. UTL is involved with universities all over the world with different subject, geographical, historical and language interests and has signed protocols with about 100 universities in 21 countries.

UTL welcomes students from all countries and has cooperation agreements with universities from many countries in view of promoting the exchange of students or simply for mutual recognition of degrees. Also, UTL participates in many international student mobility programmes (ALFA, TEMPUS, Jean Monnet, Asia-Link, Fulbright, Smile, Erasmus, among others).

International Students can also apply to non-degree studies if they have already a degree and want to take supplementary courses or if they want to acquire qualifications required for certain professions. Each School of UTL has its own application procedure.

At present, several courses at Master’s or Doctoral levels are taught in English. At Doctoral level, English is a current working language.

Language courses are available that help students to integrate themselves in the daily student life.

Here you can find more information on how to apply to UTL.

Scholarships

If you wish to apply for a scholarship, pelase contact the social action services, they will provide you more information.

Contacts
Rector’s Office
Alameda Santo António dos
Capuchos, 1 1169-047 Lisboa
Phone: +351 218 811 901
Fax: +351 881 19 90
E-mail: gre@reitoria.utl.pt

External Relations Office
Isabel França
Phone: +351 218 811 901
Fax: +351 218 811 990
E-mail: isabel.franca@reitoria.utl.pt

Official Website

Please note that Mladiinfo does not give scholarships or any financial support, but only informs about different opportunities. Click on the direct link to the official page above to apply for the program.

Lisbon University (UL), Classical University of Lisboa,  is one the oldest public universities in Portugal. It was officially created by a decrete on 22 March 1911, after the fall of the Portuguese monarchy regime, but the history of a university in Lisbon goes back to the 13th century. The University of Lisbon has, currently, an estimated number of 20 000 students and a teaching staff of 1 800 teachers. Traditionally each Faculty has a colour of its own that is used in the gowns of the teaching staff in public academic events, and by the students on their symbols and festivities.

The University provides education in three main cycles – bachelor’s, master’s, doctor´s and PhD in different fields, for instance Medicine, Arts, Sciences, Law, Pharmacy, Social Sciences and Psychology and Educational Sciences.

Faculties

* Faculty of Fine Arts
* Faculty of Science
* Faculty of Law
* Faculty of Pharmacy
* Faculty of Letters
* Faculty of Medicine
* Faculty of Dental Medicine
* Faculty of Psychology
* Institute of Social Sciences
* Institute of Education
* Institute of Geography and Territorial Planning

International Programms

The area of Cooperation and Mobility is under the directorship of the External Relations Office of the External Relations Department at the Rectorate. The External Relations Services – External Relations Division has the purpose of managing and disseminating the information relating to exchange mobility  programmes, EU programmes, as well as agreements and protocols established with both national and foreign entities.

The UL is part of different mobility networks, like Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Tempus and many different researh programs.

Scholarships

The responsable to grant scholarships and accomodation is the Social Actions Services (SAS).  To apply for a scholarship the student has to be enrolled in one of the UL faculties, be a citizen of one EU member State with a visa permit or come from a country whith which a cooperation protocol has been celebrated.

To find out more about scholarships and accomodation conditions, please chcek the SAS website.

Contacts

Reitoria
Alameda da Universidade
Cidade Universitária
1649 – 004 Lisboa
Portugal

Phone:
+351 217 967 624
+351 210 113 400
Fax: +351 217 933 624
Email: reitoria@reitoria.ul.pt

Official Website

Please note that Mladiinfo does not give scholarships or any financial support, but only informs about different opportunities. Click on the direct link to the official page above to apply for the program.

The University of Porto is largest Portuguese university according to the number of students. It has one of the most noted research outputs in Portugal. It is a public university located in Porto and founded in 22 March 1911. Initially, the University was composed by three different faculties: Faculty of Mathematical, Physics, Chemical, Historical and Natural Sciences (including the Engineering School); Faculty of Medicine (including the Pharmaceutical School); Faculty of Trade (never implemented).
Currently around 28,000 students, 11,000 of which are postgraduate, attend the courses provided by the U.Porto’s fifteen schools (13 faculties, a biomedical sciences institute and a business school).

Studying

University of Porto offers 63 graduate degree courses, over 160 master courses, and several doctoral degree courses and other specialization courses, supported by 2300 lecturers and a technical and administrative staff of over 1600 people.
In 2007, a Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan’s ranking, placed the University of Porto in 459. It was the only Portuguese university in the top 500 according to the Taiwanese ranking.

Facilities

The University buildings are placed in three main sites: in the city centre — where the neoclassical building of architect Carlos Amarante is; Site 2 is a campus in the northern end of Porto; and site 3 (Campo Alegre) is in the western part of the city, over the river Douro bank. A number of other institutes and centers are scattered all over the city and even beyond its limits.

Education, Training and Research Programmes

University of Porto offers various mobility opportunities, by participating in several EU and non-EU education, training and research programmes.
This University participates in the EU Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP). It has 4 sub-programmes focused on different stages of education and training: Erasmus (higher education), Leonardo da Vinci (training and vocational education), Comenius (schools) and Grundtvig (adult education).

The U.Porto also takes part in other EU Programmes such as Erasmus Mundus, Tempus, Edulink, etc.

Other non-EU programmes in which U.Porto participates are Atlantis, EU-Canada, Fulbright, etc.
More about all mobility opportunities.

Address
Reitoria da U.Porto
Praça Gomes Teixeira
4099-002 Porto
PORTUGAL

Telef.: +351 220 408 000
Fax: +351 220 408 186/7
E-mail: up@up.pt

Official address

Please note that Mladiinfo does not give scholarships or any financial support, but only informs about different opportunities. Click on the direct link to the official page above to apply for the program.

The University of Minho is founded in 1973 as a public university. It belongs to the group of so called “New Universities” that in the last years significantly changed the landscape of higher education in Portugal.
This University is situated in the region of Minho, famous for the outstanding economic activity and by the youth of its population. It could be said that University of Minho has played the role of driving vehicle for the development of the region.
It has more than 15,000 students (2,000 of those are postgraduate students) and 1200 professors and it is considered as one of bigger universities in Portugal.

International students

At University of Minho there not many possibilities for studying on other languages than Portuguese. Most of the classes are taught in Portuguese and students are expected to be fluent enough to be able to follow them. Exams can be held in another language depending on agreement between the student and the lecturer. There is the possibility of developing individual work/project/seminar with supervision in a foreign language common to the supervisor and the student.
In the beginning of each semester the International Relations Office (GRI) organises a Portuguese Language Course of about 60 hours, for all exchange students. It is aimed at providing the basic tools of the Portuguese language in order to make things easier for studying with us.

For more practical information about the University

Scholarships     

Scholarships are reserved for students who have financial needs. Grant for study concerns students economically debilitated whose familiar aggregate can not by it self face charges inherent University frequency.

If you are interested in applying at University of Minho, you can do this on line
Download here the on-line application

Address

Universidade do Minho
Largo do Paço
4704-553 Braga

Reitoria
Gabinete de Comunicação Informação e Imagem
Telef. 253 601109
Fax: 253 601105
email: gcii@reitoria.uminho.pt

Official Address

Please note that Mladiinfo does not give scholarships or any financial support, but only informs about different opportunities. Click on the direct link to the official page above to apply for the program.

The University of Coimbra (UC) is a public university in Coimbra, the “City of students. UC is one of the oldest universities in the world, the oldest university of Portugal, and one of its largest higher education and research institutions. University of Coimbra was founded a long time ago, in the time of the foundation of the Portuguese nation in the 13th century (1290).
It is considered to be the most cosmopolitan university in Portugal, hosting one of the largest international students’ communities in the country. The UC has around 20,000 students, eight different faculties, offering academic degrees in education, architecture, humanities, engineering, mathematics, law, medicine, natural sciences, psychology, social sciences and sports. UC is founder of the Coimbra Group, a world famous group of leading European research universities.

Admission

The admission at the UC is merit-based. The university has some programmes which are known for higher-than-average selectiveness. To these study programmes like biomedical engineering, pharmacy, medicine or architecture, admission is very difficult process. Acceptance rates may vary significantly from faculty to faculty or from department to department. International applicants usually make up around 10 percent of the applicant pool, and are considered individually by the merits achieved in their respective state of origin.

Scholarships

There are many different scholarship or internship possibilities. You will find all of them on this page.

The most popular is probably the  Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window (EM ECW).
The University of Coimbra makes part of MONESIA (MObility Network Europe-Southamerica: an Institutional Approach) an academic exchange project for academic staff, undergraduate, master, doctorate and post-doctorate students between Latin America and Europe and vice-versa. To learn more about this project and submit an application, please go to this page.

International applicants wanting to become part of UC can fulfill the online application HERE

Deadline for one academic year or first semester: until 1st of June

For this and similar issues you should best contact the International Relations Unit – DRI. DRI facilitates the mobility of students, teaching and administrative staff, supports and encourages all the activities developed within the University’s existing international networks and stimulates new initiatives. It also organises international meetings and keeps the media informed about the international activities conducted by the University.

Postal Address:
Reitoria
Universidade de Coimbra
Paço das Escolas
3004-531 Coimbra
Phone: (+351) 239 859 800 (geral), (+351) 239 859 810/860

Official web page

Please note that Mladiinfo does not give scholarships or any financial support, but only informs about different opportunities. Click on the direct link to the official page above to apply for the program.