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University Fernando Pessoa was recognized as a public interest
organization by the Portuguese State in July 1996 and it is the result of a
pioneering higher education project initiated in the 1980’s with the creation
of two higher education institutes that provided its structural basis. Today,
the University is organized in three faculties (Health Sciences, Human and
Social Sciences, Science and Technology), one School of Health Sciences and
one autonomous unit (Ponte de Lima College).Being a foundational University,
UFP has never been market oriented. It has managed to develop into a solid
private higher education institution with a strong academic focus and a
constant concern with quality maintenance and improvement in what concerns a
highly qualified teaching staff, physical infrastructures and equipments and
its teaching, research and extension project.
The mission of University Fernando Pessoa is to provide high quality
education services and to be an internationally recognized European teaching
and research university, contributing for the promotion of private higher
education as a public good, associated with private benefits and based on the
over-arching principle of public responsibility. The University understands
that it has a key role to play in the scientific, cultural, social and
economic development of the society and aims at continuously strengthen its
position as a member of the international community of scholarly
institutions.
UFP pledges its commitment to effective, efficient, caring and innovative
approaches to teaching, research and community service; client-centered
management and administration; and good governance. UFP sees itself as
serving and acting primarily at the national level, even though we understand
that importance of geographical constraints in higher education is being
blurred at a very fast pace.
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community and our action principles privilege this role, be it in the form of
service providing, be in the development of close relationships with major
national socio-economic actors, in order to promote mutual advancement.
Through our Office for Organizational Quality and Excellence, we are the
first Portuguese corporate university, in another pioneering step to bridge
the gap between business and learning, and contribute to the development of
Portugal’s economic agents.
Internationally, we want to contribute with our expertise and value to
promote a culture of quality in teaching, scholarship and research in private
higher education, to develop, with similar institutions, national and
international channels through which institutional quality cultures can be
recognized, legitimatized, and continually enhanced so that a truly inclusive
European Area of Higher Education can be shaped.
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