International exchange programmes

Erasmus Programme

NOVA is part of the Erasmus Programme since its creation in 1987. It has developed links with 377 universities, across 26 European nations. According to statistics published by the European Commission, related to the academic year 2007/2008, NOVA ranks amongst the 4 000 European Universities, occupying the 60th position in outgoing students and 40th position in incoming students, positioning itself, at the national level, as the 2nd institution to send and receive most students. As a consequence, students and teachers come from different cultures and nationalities, building an innovative, cosmopolitan university environment, open to the future.

Erasmus Mundus Programme

The university also takes part in the Erasmus Mundus Programme. This is cooperation and mobility programme aims to enhance quality of European higher education and promote the EU as a worldwide excellence centre in the education. Its main goal is to give greater visibility and appeal to the European higher education worldwide. It supports the creation of high quality Master and Doctorates courses, taught by consortiums of higher education institutions from different EU countries, as well as partnerships with non-European higher education institutions. Universidade NOVA de Lisboa participates in several consortiums leading to Master and PhD degrees and also has partnerships with Russian universities, within the framework of this Programme.

Portuguese-Brazilian Grants Santander – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

As a result of the agreement signed between the Portuguese  and Brasilian universities and Santander Totta Bank, a Programme of exchange grants has been established, so students from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa’s 1st and 2nd cycles may now benefit from mobility grants to Brasil, financed by Santander Totta.

Practical information for mobility students

Foreign students should make sure they have the following items:

• Identification document (passport or identity card);
• Letter from the host University or some document that can prove the awarding of the scholarship and their mobility student status;
• European Health Insurance Card for students from European Union (EU), European Economic Space (EEE) and Switzerland;
• Students not included in the last paragraph, should check if there is an agreement between the social security systems of the country of origin and of destination. If an agreement does not exist, students must obtain a health insurance;
• Recent photographs (passport size).

Foreign students should enrol as soon as possible. To do so, they should contact the International Relations Office at their academic unit. They can only enrol after establishing this contact.

After enrolment, they will receive a student card which will entitle them to the same rights as any other Portuguese student: access to canteens, libraries, documentation centres, price reductions for books and concert tickets.

You can find out more information for mobility students in the Erasmus Student Guide, including some tips for students before and after arriving in Lisbon, as well as general information about the history of Portugal and the city of Lisbon.

National Health Service

As it was previously stated, students from the EU, the EEE and Switzerland are eligible to use the European Health Insurance Card, which will give them access to the Portuguese health system with the same rights of a national citizen. To benefit from the card’s advantages, the students should request its issuing before coming to Portugal. The remaining mobility students should make sure that they have health insurance, before coming to Portugal.

School Insurance

All NOVA Students, Portuguese or in a mobility programme, benefit from school insurance, offered at/payable at enrolment. For more information, please contact academic services of each NOVA Academit Unit. Please notice that, in the event of an accident, students must immediately contact services mentioned above, in order to report the accident to the insurance company.

For more information on International Exchange Programmes, please contact:

International Relations Office
Tel.: +351 213 845 207/8
Fax: +351 213 715 621
E-mail: international@unl.pt
http://www.unl.pt/erasmus