Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Universidade NOVA) de Lisboa was founded on the 11th of August 1973, and is the youngest of Lisbon’s three state Universities. Integrated within a framework of expansion and diversification of higher education, the University adopted a new model within the Portuguese system that stressed interdisciplinary approaches, technological developments while, at the same time, safeguarding offerings in traditional academic domains including medicine, sciences and humanities. Universidade Nova de Lisboa is identified as a university institution with internationally recognised research and quality teaching, progressively oriented towards second and third cycle education, capable of providing high levels of professional success to its students and providing relevant services to the community, national and international; a university with distinct elements at national level, both in training programmes and in pure and applied research, and with strategic partnerships of excellence. Universidade Nova de Lisboa is made up of 5 Faculties, 3 Institutes and a School, all with public legal status and administrative and financial autonomy. NOVA's teaching diversity, involving more than 18 000 students, is reflected in more than a hundred courses from the 1st to 3rd cycles, almost all in compliance with the Bologna Process requirements. We are not only participating as an institution in the European Higher Education Area, but also competing in this space.
