This office was created within the Rector's Office in 1991. Its flexible structure is designed to help its main function, which is to encourage and co-ordinate exchange activities organised and run by the various faculties and centres.

Mission and goals

Relations between UCP and foreign universities, and with various university federations. Contact with international institutions in terms of finding, collecting and processing information on projects in education, culture and science; Informing UCP faculties on the various international projects in education, culture and science; Fostering and supporting the exchange of lecturers and students between UCP and foreign universities. Co-ordinating student and lecturer mobility within the LLP/Erasmus Programme

ERASMUS  programme
(European Union programme for education)
UCP participates in this programme through partnerships with many European universities. The activities are as follows:

Student and teacher mobility   Participation in intensive programmes    Co-ordination of thematic networks

Mobility In 2007/08 around 320 students participate under the partnership agreements between UCP and EU universities. Intensive Programmes   "Social policy and vulnerable groups: immigration as a cultural, social and political change"   Networks Network co-ordinated at the Higher School of Biotechnology, Prof.ª Cristina Silva ISEKI-FOOD, Integrating Safety and Environmental Knowledge Into Food Studies - Towards European Sustainable Development More: Who is who at UCP for Erasmus

Links
(Erasmus Programme)
- Agência Nacional para a Gestão do Programa de Aprendizagem ao Longo da Vida
http://alv.addition.pt

- Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/index.htm

- ESN, Erasmus Student Network
http://www.esn.org

Bologna
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Declaration of Bologna
http://www.mces.gov.pt 


Position of the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities (CRUP)
http://www.crup.pt/docs/Posicao_CRUP_Bolonha.pdf


Graz
http://www.bologna-berlin2003.de/pdf/Graz_convention.pdf

 
Berlin
http://www.bologna-berlin2003.de/pdf/Communique1.pdf


European Union

European Commission
http://europa.eu.int/

 
UE Legislation
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/index.html

 
European Programmes
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/programmes_en.html
ERASMUS World
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/news/ip/world/world_pt.pdf
External cooperation programmes
http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/index_en.htm

EURYDICE - The Information Network on Education in Europe
http://www.eurydice.org/

Study and research grants

FCG Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
www.gulbenkian.pt
FLAD Luso-American Desenvolpment Foundation
www.flad.pt
Camões Institute (with grants awarded by foreign institutions and governments)
www.instituto-camoes.pt
Fulbright Commission - Luso-American Cultural Commission
www.ccla.pt

    EUA European University Association

IFCU/FIUC International Federation of Catholic Universities
www.fiuc.org
FUCE Fédération des Universités Catholiques Européennes
www.fiuc.org/fuce/fuce.html
AULP Association of Portuguese-language Universities
www.aulp.org

Other links


UNESCO
http://www.unesco.org