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On September 19th, Portucalense University hosted the new students with a welcome program that included presentations of the Departments, the Academic Services and the Student Centres. In the late afternoon, the Aula Magna was the stage for the Institutional Welcome Session. [Vídeo] “This is the beginning of a university journey that is also intended to be crowned with academic and personal success. An important and demanding stage that requires a lot of dedication, work and discipline. And essentially attitude so that they may build a solid and prosperous future”, Armando Jorge de Carvalho, Chairman of the Board of Directors, said to an audience full of new students and of parents and family members. With a consecutive growth in the number of students, Portucalense University is once again registering an increase in this new academic year: “The sustained growth that we have been achieving over the past five years has allowed us, in terms of the number of students enrolled and registered in the three or four-year degree courses, to see an increase of around 50% and that even in relation to last year, although the process has not yet finished, it can already be deduced that this increase is relevant and of the order of double digits”, revealed Armando Jorge de Carvalho.  “In addition, it is important and very relevant to mention that, in the very first phase, six of the courses of the UPT have sold out vacancies, which gives an extremely positive sign of the quality of education that is practiced in this house”, he added. For Armando Jorge Carvalho, the success translates “the market’s recognition of the work developed in the University by a whole team made up of leaders and collaborators, teachers and employees, who have contributed to the strengthening of the prestige capital acquired by the institution”.  To the new student assumed the commitment of Portucalense University: to contribute to “the excellence of its integral development and its enrichment aimed at human training at the highest level, in its scientific, technical, professional, moral, ethical and cultural dimensions, preparing him conveniently to be an active agent and collaborate for an improvement of global society, through the exercise of a full and responsible citizenship”. In this Welcome Session, Rector Fernando Ramos also focused on the need for students to assume the academic challenges as “unique opportunities” for enrichment, both intellectually and in terms of the development of scientific, technical and behavioural skills”, as they “will be decisive in their future professional life”.  He stressed that “scientific research is, along with teaching, a fundamental pillar of the activity of Portucalense University, because it is through the involvement in projects and research activities that we ensure the permanent updating and scientific enhancement of our teachers”.  In the context of the modernization of the training offer, the Rector said that “the installation of the latest generation of technology to support hybrid teaching” is underway at the University, which represents “the beginning of a new path”.   “This will be the seed for the progressive adoption of more flexible solutions for students, allowing us to take the quality of our training offer further and to more differentiated target audiences”, he concluded. The Welcome Session was also marked by the delivery of the Brandzone – Media Experts Award to the student with the best final average and to the best student of the 1st cycle in Marketing in the 2021-2022 academic year, the Cerejeira Namora, Marinho Falcão Award to the best dissertation of the Master in Law and the scholarships for the Promotion of Quality and Merit of Portucalense University to the students who stood out for their good academic performance. The closing of the ceremony was brightened up with a symbolic performance that brought together the Academic Tuna and the Veteran Tuna. No dia 19 de setembro, a Universidade Portucalense integrou os novos estudantes com um programa de acolhimento que incluiu apresentações dos Departamentos, dos Serviços Académicos e dos Núcleos de Estudantes. Ao final da tarde, a Aula Magna foi o palco da Sessão Institucional de Boas-vindas. [Vídeo] “Este é o começo de um percurso universitário que se pretende também coroado de sucessos académicos e pessoais. Uma etapa importante e exigente que obriga a muita dedicação, trabalho e disciplina. E essencialmente atitude para que possam construir um futuro sólido e próspero”, começou por dizer Armando Jorge de Carvalho, Presidente do Conselho de Administração, à plateia repleta de novos estudantes e de pais e familiares. A crescer consecutivamente no número de estudantes, a Universidade Portucalense volta a registar, neste novo ano letivo, um incremento: “O crescimento sustentado que temos vindo a obter ao longo dos últimos cinco anos, permitiu-nos que, em termos de número de alunos matriculados e inscritos nos três ou quatro anos de licenciatura, se constate um acréscimo da ordem dos 50% e que, mesmo em relação ao ano passado, embora o processo ainda não tenha terminado, já se possa deduzir que esse acréscimo é relevante e da ordem dos dois dígitos”, revelou Armando Jorge de Carvalho.  “Complementarmente, é importante e muito relevante referir que, logo na primeira fase, seis dos cursos da UPT tenham esgotado as vagas, o que dá um sinal extremamente positivo da qualidade do ensino que se pratica nesta casa”, acrescentou. Para Armando Jorge Carvalho, o êxito traduz “o reconhecimento do mercado relativamente ao trabalho desenvolvido na Universidade por toda uma equipa constituída pelos dirigentes e colaboradores, docentes e funcionários, que têm contribuído para o reforço do capital de prestígio adquirido pela instituição”.  Ao novo estudante assumiu o compromisso de a Universidade Portucalense: contribuir para “a excelência do seu desenvolvimento integral e no seu enriquecimento vocacionado para a formação humana ao mais alto nível, nas suas dimensões científica, técnica, profissional, moral, ética e cultural, preparando-o convenientemente para ser agente ativo e colaborar para uma melhoria da sociedade global, através do exercício de uma cidadania plena e responsável”. Nesta Sessão de Boas-Vindas, o Reitor Fernando Ramos também incidiu na necessidade dos estudantes assumirem os desafios académicos como

Portucalense University informs that it will award doctoral scholarships. These scholarships are intended for candidates to the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Counselling and Doctorate in Legal Sciences Tuition fee waiver scholarships will be awarded to the candidates with the best absolute merit in the following criteria: Academic qualifications; Scientific production Professional experience; Motivation letter. The 3rd phase of applications for Doctorates takes place between 11 and 21 October.

Mariana Correia, Director and Researcher of the Research Centre Gallaecia – CIG, is part of the European project VERSUS+ “Heritage for People” which aims to share the lessons of vernacular architecture and explore new ways of applying these principles to contemporary sustainable architecture.

Professors and researchers Jorge Marques, Helena Albuquerque and Makhabbat Ramazanova participated in the I National Conference in Paraguay and III Training in person of the Project “INNOVA – Promoting Research Management at Higher Education Institutions in Bolivia and Paraguay”, which took place between 29 August and 3 September, at the National University of Asunción, in Paraguay.

The training, carried out in partnership with the Portuguese Freight Forwarders Association, takes place online and post-labor hours.

Applications for the Applied Training in Strategic Control and Organisational Innovation are open until 6 January.

The 4th application phase for the 3rd study cycle (Doctoral Degree) will take place until 21st November.

From July 22 to August 31 is the 2nd season of registration for the Special Tests of Access and Entry to Higher Education for over 23 years, who wish to apply to the 16 courses of 1st cycle of studies of the Universidade Portucalense. The entrance via “Over 23” is intended for candidates who do not have higher education access qualifications and have completed 23 years until December 2021.

The Hotel School is the bet of  Portucalense University to consolidate the Tourism and Hospitality Management Bachelors. With this laboratory training space, which resembles a hotel, the two degrees now provide a more dynamic and practical training. In Reception, ensuring the management of reservations and customer contact, or in Housekeeping, managing the rules for cleaning and tidying rooms, students have the opportunity to develop fundamental skills for the future, through simulation actions based on the characteristics and challenges of hospitality and hotel management.

On 15 July, the Rector of the Eduardo Mondlane University, Manuel Guilherme Júnior, was at the Universidade Portucalense, where he signed a cooperation protocol between the two universities. The Eduardo Mondlane University, founded in 1962, is the oldest institution of higher education in Mozambique. The public university is present in the provinces of Maputo, Gaza, Inhambane, Zambézia, and, through distance learning, throughout the country and abroad.