University of Porto
With origins dating back to the eighteenth century the University of Porto is currently one of the most prestigious Higher Education Institutions of Europe. Close to 32.000 students, 2,000 teaching staff and researchers along with 1,700 administrative staff attend its 15 schools and 60 scientific research units, spread across 3 university campuses located in the city of Porto, Portugal.
It is not just because of its size that the University of Porto stands out, but also because of the quality of its teaching staff (comprising 80% of PhD’s) and the high level of its research units.
In choosing to hold ECER 2014 at the University of Porto, EERA has acquired a very prestigious partner. The University of Porto is the Portuguese institution with the best scores in the majority of the international rankings for higher education and scientific research and has been voted one of the best 350 universities in the world.
Education & Training
With 14 faculties and a business school, the University of Porto provides an exceptional variety of courses, covering the whole range of study areas and all levels of higher education. In fact, offering over 600 training programmes per year (from degrees to continuous professional training), the University of Porto has teaching solutions for everyone.
Research & Development
With 60 research units, the University is responsible for more than one fifth of the Portuguese articles indexed each year in the ISI Web of Science.
Around 75% of its research units were classified as “Excellent” or “Very Good” by the latest international evaluations. In fact, the University of Porto has some of the most productive and internationally renowned Portuguese R&D centres.