Education

Preparing Citizens for the challenges facing the Planet and People

UCP's mission is to prepare citizens to face the environmental and social challenges facing the planet and people. To this end, it offers an integral and qualified education, inspired by the values of freedom, ethical responsibility and the Church's social doctrine. The University promotes critical reflection and student autonomy, combining them with the principle of usefulness for the solid exercise of the profession.
 

SDG Curricular Units

In order to raise everyone's awareness of these common and global challenges, the Universidade Católica Portuguesa has launched, as part of its Strategic Development Plan, the innovative Strategic Initiative called ‘SDG Chairs’. This initiative aims to introduce into the academic curriculum of 1st cycle students optional subjects dedicated specifically to the study and understanding of the various Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda.

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Service-Learning

The CApS Project - Universidade Católica and Service-Learning: Innovation and Social Responsibility - led by the Faculty of Education and Psychology (FEP) and the Unit for the Integral Development of the Person (UDIP), aims to institutionalise and consolidate the ApS methodology in specific, transversal and extracurricular curricular areas within the UCP and create guidelines for other HEIs that want to follow suit.

It is the first national project to involve the university's four campi (Headquarters - Lisbon, Braga, Porto and Viseu), boosting internal cohesion and a common focus on innovative and distinctive teaching by contributing to the training of students committed to the future and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sensitive to the problems of the most vulnerable and capable of leading change.

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