The main goal of Ensino Lusófona’s Social Responsibility Programme is to express the Vision, the Values and the Strategic Commitment defined by each institution that integrates the Ensino Lusófona project for sustainable development.
Education being our core area of intervention, the support to social, educational, cultural and environmental development of the communities they integrate, the institutions of the Ensino Lusófona project reinforce the links to all stakeholders in an active connection between citizens and companies.
The Social Responsibility Programme is structured according to the strategic orientations of each institution and is divided into:
Educational benefits for students
The Social Service Regulation aims to lay down the rules to grant educational benefits to the students enrolled in the different institutions of Ensino Lusófona. Educational benefits involve a decrease in the annual amount to be paid for tuition, made available to students, students’ relatives and workers of Ensino Lusófona, former students enrolled in PhD programmes, students from non-higher education institutions that are part of Ensino Lusófona, among others.
To date, these benefits have been steered to the education institutions located in Portugal. Step by step, they are also being implemented in the HEIs outside Portugal.
Scholarships
The Ensino Lusófona institutions have several excellence and merit scholarships schemes which reward the best students that enter our HEIs as well as our students who wish to advance their studies, the best students attending our bachelor and master programmes, and all students who enter our PhD programmes.
Scholarships for students from CPLP countries – Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries
The educational benefits granted students from the countries of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries integrate the institutional support programme aimed at training and prepare highly qualified human resources for the member states, with a view to contributing to the development of these Portuguese-speaking countries and peoples in their different fields.
To this end, Ensino Lusófona seeks to fulfil its mission and annually awards scholarships to support the students from CPLP countries, as a decrease in the annual amount of the tuition fees, thus ensuring the support these youngsters need to attend and complete higher education.
Further information on the scholarship and educational benefits schemes can be found on each institution’s website.
