Creating your own job and encouraging entrepreneurship are strongly encouraged in the community. FEUP publicises and supports various initiatives aimed at promoting entrepreneurship as a personal and professional skill and as an incentive to create one's own job, promote initiative and innovative spirit.

Startup School
This is a business idea acceleration programme promoted by UPTEC and designed to prepare new entrepreneurs for the main challenges of creating and developing a business project.
For three months, the participants, graduate entrepreneurs who have a business idea, have the opportunity to work with tools, concepts, structures and people who help validate the ideas in the market in order to create their own company.
Support for the creation of spin-offs and start-ups
FEUP R&D projects from research centres, interface institutes and competence centres can lead to the creation of new technology-based companies. Several start-ups have been created within the Faculty of Engineering.