Celebrations of the National Day of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa 2020

The Universidade Católica Portuguesa invites you to celebrate the National Day of UCP, which takes place on February 2. The celebrations will take place on the following Friday, February 7, 2020, at 3:30 p.m., at the Ilídio Pinho Auditorium, in the Porto Regional Centre.

Under the theme "The University as a protagonist of the future", the ceremony includes the imposition of the insignia and the handing over of doctoral letters to the doctors who obtained their degree in 2019 and the distribution of silver medals from the UCP to the employees who completed 25 years of service in 2019.

The National Day of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa will also be marked by the intervention of His Excellency the Bishop of Porto and the intervention of His Excellency the President of the Republic.

The President of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa invites the whole Community to participate in the celebrations of the National Day of the Universidade Católica, highlighting the role of the Universidade Católica as "a protagonist insofar as it knows how to train and give space to new protagonists, who do not ignore the complexity that surrounds us, but who know, with creativity and responsibility, to contribute to a transformed future in the professional, social and cultural field".

Read message here. Read speech here. (Both documents are only available in Portuguese).

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