Universidade Católica Portuguesa creates Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing (FCSE)

Universidade Católica Portuguesa announces the creation of the new Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing (FCSE). The new Academic Unit is the result of the strategic plan implemented in the area of health and nursing, integrating all the courses that have been taught at the Institute of Health Sciences (ICS) until now.

The consolidated growth of the ICS over the decades, as well as the increasing diversification of knowledge and the training and research offer, have given rise to a new multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary faculty.

The ICS, founded in 2004, has given way to this new faculty, also of national scope, operating in Lisbon and Porto. The FCSE will be dedicated to areas of knowledge ranging from Nursing, Neurosciences, Palliative Care, Language (biolinguistics / evolution of language in the human species, sign languages), Cognition and even neuroscience-based Inclusive Education.

According to Ana Mineiro, the Faculty's director, "the new faculty will be dedicated to teaching and scientific research into the themes that make up the spectrum of life, health and illness, encompassing the different levels of care".

In the near future, FCSE intends to integrate new fields of health sciences to provide effective responses with an impact on society, health and disease, especially in key areas such as new emerging careers.