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Academic Information

Reasons to attend ISMAT- Instituto Superior

  • Our own scholarships for students from the Algarve region, students from CPLP countries, scholarships for excellence and merit and access to scholarships from DGES (Directorate-General for Higher Education);
  • All undergraduate and master's programmes accredited by the National Accreditation Agency (A3ES);
  • Day and evening classes;
  • Integration into the Lusófona Group - Portugal's largest private higher education group with international expansion in Portuguese-speaking countries (Brazil, Angola, Guinea, Cape Verde and Mozambique);
  • Mobility programmes at Lusófona Group institutions;
  • Privileged location in the centre of Portimão, close to the airport, road and rail network and access to the motorway linking the Algarve to various points in Portugal and Spain;
  • Facilities with rooms and laboratories suitable for theoretical teaching and laboratory practice;
  • Close liaison between students, teachers and all the administrative and teaching structures;
  • Highly qualified teaching staff, meeting the high demands of university teaching and combining academic recognition with business practice with strong links to the community;
  • Deeply integrated into local and regional life, ISMAT establishes dynamic links with the world of work, maintaining collaboration protocols with various institutions, companies and organisations based in the Algarve;
  • International mobility programmes (Erasmus+);
  • Admission/access programme for international students.

The Institute and its most honoured students

It is our students who make ISMAT a unique university institute. A place of recognised merit.

  • Vítor Vicente, Guilherme Teixeira and Chiril Hamoza won the prize for best entrepreneurial project at the Project Showcase, organised by Startup Portimão and Territórios Criativos, with their Lusomed clinical information software project.
  • David Matos and Dércio Gonçalves, 2nd year students in the 1st cycle of the Integrated Master's Degree in Architecture, came 5th in the 9th International Competition for Architecture Students, organised by Steelcase.
  • Daniel Gonçalves, Archiprix 2018 Honourable Mention, for his final dissertation The Cubist House and its Metamorphosis, completed in October 2017.
  • Dário Bonugli, Integrated Master's Degree in Architecture, for his final dissertation, completed on 23.03.2017..

School of Arts in Shoreditch, London: proposal for the development of an architectural project. See all the images of the project here.