Students - Incoming Students

In each academic year, international students enrolled in foreign Universities with an existing Erasmus+ Bilateral Agreement or a Cooperation Agreement (eg. Brazil), have the opportunity to carry out a mobility period of studies at FPCEUP, by attending curricular units and obtaining academic recognition in their home university.

Students can apply for a mobility period at FPCEUP according to a limited number of places defined each academic year, therefore if you want to come to FPCEUP, don’t forget to check it with the International Office at your home university.

Please note that, the nomination process of your University and/or the submission of your online application to UP does not ensure, by itself, the acceptance of your mobility!

Student's application is formally accepted, only after receiving the Acceptance Letter issued by the Rectory of U.Porto.

Please do not purchase your trip, rent accommodation or travel to Porto without first being formally accepted by UPorto.

All applications and supporting documents should be submitted ONLINE according to the following deadlines:

• Full Academic year: from 1st April to 21st May (results to be announced from July);
• 1st semester: from 1st April to 21st May (results to be announced from July);
• 2nd semester: from 1st September to 15th October (results to be announced from December).

Please check the Academic Calendar as our academic year is organized as follows:

• Fall Term or 1st semester: from September to December;
• Evaluation period: January and middle of February;
• Spring Term or 2nd semester: from middle of February to the end of May;
• Evaluation period: June and July.

Students selected by their Home Institution have to register online in order to obtain a username and password to access the Application Form on the University of Porto website.

These credentials will be automatically sent to the student in order to create the Application Form.

We strongly advise the student to read the Online Application Guide also available in the same page (sidebar on the right).

For a more effective and easier way to fill in the application, we recommend students to organize all the required information and documents with the responsible person for the mobility at their Home Institution.

Once the online application form is completed, it must be submitted, printed in pdf (option “Print” sidebar on the right), signed by the student and his/her Mobility Coordinators, stamped and uploaded with all the required documents in ONE single pdf file at UPorto website.

Please note that, the application is completed/finished ONLY after the upload of all mandatory documents!!

MANDATORY DOCUMENTS

• Online Application Form and Learning Agreement
• Transcript of Records issued by the Home Institution in Portuguese or English (the ToR is a certificate with a list of all completed subjects, their corresponding ECTS credits, the credits according to a local or national scale and the assigned awarded ECTS grades)
• Copy of ID Card or Passport
• Medical certificate (if applicable) confirming the student disability or special need that may interfere with the accomplishment of mobility, particularly in his/her learning process in FPCEUP
• CV (optional for mobility studies but compulsory for internship/placement mobility)
• Motivation Letter (optional)
  

LEARNING AGREEMENT FOR STUDIES

The Learning Agreement is a part of your application form online and it’s a study plan listing the courses you intend to attend during your mobility.

As the University of Porto uses the ECTS Grading system, all courses have a number of ECTS credits which reflects the number of hours and amount of study workload the student has to accomplish in each course.

The credit is the total of all study activities for one course: lectures, seminars, practices, homework, reading, preparation for exams, writing essays, etc. At the University of Porto, one credit corresponds to 27 hours of student total work. The credit load per semester is 30 ECTS and 60 ECTS for one academic year.

We strongly advise mobility students to sign up for a minimum of 20 ECTS per semester when applying, as it is the minimum credit load demanded at UP.

Local grades are awarded on a scale of 0-20 (pass mark 10).

ACADEMIC OFFER

Detailed information about the content of each course is available HERE.

Click on each course to check its content and pre-requisites.

Please note that:

This information is reference and is always subject to possible changes!

It is not guaranteed your enrolment in the chosen courses, as the study programs may change before the start of each semester.

The majority of the curricular units have a limited number of vacancies available.

The choice of curricular units from different years, courses or faculties, may imply incompatibility of timetable and examination calendars.

The timetable of the courses will be available only at the beginning of each semester.

The Learning Agreement approved by FPCEUP is subject to adjustments/changes upon arrival of the student at FPCEUP.

FIRST DEGREE COURSES

Students can choose courses from the 1st to the 3rd year, however cannot choose the following:

• E107 SIMF: Contexts of Work and Mediation in Education;
• E512 SIMF: Initiation to the areas of professionalization in Education/Training;
• E608 SIMF: Unit Contact with the outside.

Students are encouraged to choose courses “Suitable for English-speaking students”.

The 1st degree in Education Sciences is not addressed to training teachers or early childhood educators.

First Degree in PSYCHOLOGY

Students can choose courses from the 1st to the 3rd year.

Students are encouraged to choose courses “Suitable for English-speaking students”

• Master Degree Courses
  Only students attending an equivalent post-graduate level at their home university may be enrolled in Master's curricular units.
  
• Master Degree in EDUCATION SCIENCES
  Students may choose all courses from the 1st year of the Master, but courses of theSpecific Curricular Unit 3, because only full degree students can attend them.
  

Master in PSYCHOLOGY

Students may choose ONLY Optional Courses from the 1st year of the Master.

We cannot assure vacancies available in the areas of “Clinical and Health Psychology” and “Psychology of Justice and Deviance”.

Students are encouraged to choose courses “Suitable for English-speaking students”.

Doctoral Degree Courses

For both doctoral programmes, mobility students can only attend courses from the 1styear.

• Doctoral Program in Educational Sciences
• Psychology Doctoral Programme
  

Acceptance Procedure

Once all needed documents have been uploaded, including the application form, FPCEUP will decide on your acceptance by validating your application. Only after that, the International Office of the University of Porto will issue and send you the official Acceptance Letter and the Approved Learning Agreement, which means that you are formally accepted!

Please do not purchase your trip, rent accommodation or travel to Porto without first being formally accepted by UPorto!

All courses lectured at FPCEUP are taught in Portuguese and the majority of them require fluent verbal interaction in Portuguese language, so students should try to have some preparation in Portuguese before their arrival (minimum recommended level B1) otherwise students cannot attend them.

For information about Portuguese Language Courses offered at the UPorto click HERE or contact directly the: Continuing Education Office (Academic Management Office) of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto:

Phone: (+351) 226 077 165 | e-mail: [email protected]

A language certificate is not mandatory, although we recommend a B2 level in English language and a B1 level in Portuguese language knowledge.

Some lectures may allow students to write assignments and take exams in other languages, namely in English, but this situation can only be agreed upon arrival, individually.

Students are encouraged to choose courses “Suitable for English-speaking students”. This doesn't mean that the classes are taught in English, as the majority will be taught in Portuguese, however English may be used for assessment purposes (study/pedagogical materials, exams, etc.) and tutorials in English will be provided, whenever possible.

ERASMUS+

Erasmus+ provide mobility grants for students who wish to carry out a placement/internship abroad, in a European country entity (SMP mobility). In this case, bilateral agreements between institutions are not necessary only a Training Agreement.

If you want to apply for a placement/internship at FPCEUP you should:

Contact the Research Center/Lab/Department where you want to do your traineeship directly OR

Contact theMobility Office ([email protected]) by providing a brief description of the internship (objectives, area of interest, activities to develop, duration…), your CV and a Transcript of Records, in order to find you a supervisor.

As soon as the arrangements between your training supervisor and yourself are set up, you can fill in the application form online by choosing the option “Programme Erasmus+ Placements: Mobilities for Placements under Erasmus+ Program”.

During the application process you need to prepare the training agreement where you must indicate:

1. The activities to be developed:
2. The competences to be acquired;
3. The tasks to be performed by the student at the Host Institution;
4. The evaluation of the internship.

The Learning Agreement for Traineeships must be signed by you and also signed and stamped by the Erasmus coordinator/scientific supervisor at your home institution and uploaded with all the required documents in ONE pdf file at UPorto website.

COOPERATION AGREEMENTS

If you are a PhD student you can apply for a placement/internship at FPCEUP to carry out research work as part of your doctoral project.

In this case you should:

Contact directlythe Professor that will be your supervisor at FPCEUP OR

Contact theMobility Office ([email protected]) by providing a brief description of your PhD project, proposed working plan and your CV. At the same time, you should contact the Postgraduate Office to get information about your acceptance by the Scientific Council of the FPCEUP

When the arrangements between your training supervisor and yourself are concluded, you can fill in the application form online by choosing the option “Cooperation Agreement - Placements ”.

Please bear in mind that, you are not able to attend courses, therefore you should fill in the “Work program” field a brief description of the planned research work you will develop at FPCEUP and indicating the name of your future supervisor at FPCEUP.

The Application Form and Work Program must be signed by you and also signed and stamped by the Mobility coordinator/scientific supervisor and the professor responsible at your home institution. After that, upload all the required documents in ONE single pdf file at UPorto website.

Please note that, in case of an internship/placement, no grades or ECTS credits will be awarded, only a qualitative report could be provided by FPCEUP’ Supervisor.

Todas as candidaturas e documentos comprovativos devem ser apresentados ONLINE 2 meses antes da data de início do estágio/estágio.

Por favor, consulte o Calendário Académico, pois o nosso ano académico está organizado da seguinte forma:

• Período de Outono ou 1º semestre: de Setembro a Dezembro;
• Primavera ou 2º semestre: de meados de Fevereiro até ao final de Maio.

Online Application

Students selected by their Home Institution have to register online in order to obtain a username and password to access the Application Form on the University of Porto website.

These credentials will be automatically sent to the student in order to create the Application Form.

We strongly advise the student to read the Online Application Guide also available in the same page (sidebar on the right).

For a more effective and easier way to fill in the application, we recommend students to organize all the required information and documents with the responsible person for the mobility at their Home Institution.

Once the online application form is completed, it must be submitted, printed in pdf (option “Print” sidebar on the right), signed by the student and his/her Mobility Coordinators, stamped and uploaded with all the required documents in ONE single pdf file at UPorto website.

Please note that, the application is completed/finished ONLY after the upload of all mandatory documents!!

Mandatory documents

1. Online Application Form and Training Agreement
2. Transcript of Records issued by the Home Institution in Portuguese or English (the ToR is a certificate with a list of all completed subjects, their corresponding ECTS credits, the credits according to a local or national scale and the assigned awarded ECTS grades)
3. Copy of ID Card or Passport
4. Medical certificate (if applicable) confirming the student disability or special need that may interfere with the accomplishment of mobility, particularly in his/her learning process in FPCEUP
5. CV (optional for mobility studies but compulsory for internship/training mobility)
6. Motivation Letter (optional)
   

Acceptance Procedure

Once all needed documents have been uploaded, including the application form, FPCEUP will decide on your acceptance by validating your application. Only after that, the International Office of the University of Porto will issue and send you the official Acceptance Letter and the Approved Learning Agreement/Work Program.