- Twenty four study rooms with an overall capacity of around 1200 students – open from 20.00pm onwards and during all night,
- Four computer rooms, with 40 computers – open 24 hours,
- There are various study rooms in the different departmental buildings, some of which are equipped with computers,
- Copy centre,
- Common room,
- Sports field,
- Jogging Circuit,
- Climbing wall,
- Medical centre,
- Kindergarden,
- Grocery store
- Mail box and stamp dispensing machine
- Caixa Geral de Depósitos Bank
- Bookshop
- Agência Abreu Travel Agency
Support services
Academic Division (http://www.fct.unl.pt/en/faculty/services/academic-division)
The Academic Division deals with all matters relating to academic life of students. To this end, ensures a constant updating of their databases, makes a screening of the documents received, ensuring its routing through the appropriate channels, after preparation of technical information and / or appear to enable a higher decision-making and provides all data statistics that are required internally and externally.
It also guarantees the attendance of the public, filing and secretariat of all public examination of doctoral programs.
The Academic Division (AD) consists of the following sections:
Section of Graduate Studies (GS) - Responsible for ensuring the effectiveness of all administrative procedures relating to academic students of the 1st Cycle of Cycles and the Faculty of Integrated Studies. (http://www.fct.unl.pt/en/faculty/services/academic-division/undergraduates-section);
Section Postgraduate (SPG) - Responsible for ensuring the effectiveness of all administrative procedures relating to academic students of 2nd and 3rd cycle of Postgraduate Degree and Diploma of Advanced Studies. (http://www.fct.unl.pt/en/faculty/services/academic-division/postgraduates-section)
Student Support Section (NCS) - Responsible for ensuring the integration of students in the College and promoting mobility through exchanges of students with other institutions of higher education by providing vocational counseling and psychological support integration in employment of graduates Faculty. (http://www.fct.unl.pt/en/faculty/services/academic-division/student-support-section).
This section includes the following areas:
a) Attendance and Mobility (http://www.fct.unl.pt/en/student/student-orientation-and-mobility);
b) Vocational Counseling and Psychological (http://www.fct.unl.pt/en/student/advising);
c) Integration in Working Life (http://www.fct.unl.pt/en/student/job-search-and-job-offers).
Library
The FCT Library mission is to facilitate and promote access to a wide range of knowledge resources from print to electronic materials.
We aim to provide users with a modern, comfortable environment conducive to study and research.
We seek an adjusted setting where up-to-date information delivery services are flexible. Our top priority is to find innovative approaches to Information Access.
The Library has 434 reading seats spread over five reading rooms. The collection is under open access policy and it’s available to all teachers, researchers, students and staff of the FCT as well as the general public.
All documentation is recorded in the catalog that is available online (OPAC). All documents, in whatever form, are Requestable for home reading, except reference works (encyclopedias, dictionaries, language, thematic dictionaries, standards ...), scientific journals, and reserved works (works with special features that are grouped into collections) and those documents marked with yellow circle.
Users can also access documents that don’t exist in the FCT Library, through a program called the interlibrary loan, which is a partnership between similar institutions in the country and abroad.
The Library provides several Xerox machines on a self-service basis that allow copying, printing and scanning.
The copier works with card. Users can purchase the photocopy card at any service desk and reload them in the green room (floor 1) or in the blue room (floor 2). The card is rechargeable. The price list is posted at the counters and near the equipment. The Library undertakes to comply with the law of copyright.
The printing service is available through Vouchers. Users may acquire a voucher at any service desk and then activate them in the computers available in the reading rooms. The price list is posted at the counters and near the equipment.
The scans are completely free.
There are forty-two computers available in the library building, for work and research.
The entire building is served by "wireless” Internet and you can remotely access all the documentation in digital form.
The Library has 40 individual working rooms and 8 group working rooms (6 persons each). The Individual working rooms are intended primarily at users who are developing research activities. The group working rooms are destined exclusively for groups. These working rooms must be occupied by at least two people and under no circumstances for more than six people simultaneously.
Through the library is possible access a large number of scientific journals as the institution is part of the consortium B-On, even if users are outside the campus.
The Library also has an exhibition hall and an auditorium with capacity for 80 people.
The Library provides a cultural program with a wide range of different activities such as: art exhibitions (painting, art installation, photography, sculpture), lectures on relevant social issues, movies, plays, dance .
We recently opened a space called "American Corner".
The "American Corner" provides access to collections of books and scientific databases.
Library Projects
RUN (Repository, New University of Lisbon), which aims to collect, store, manage, preserve and give access to the university’s research output, and Blimunda Project (Survey of policies of publishers and Portuguese scientific journals regarding self-archiving in institutional repositories.
Hours:
Weekdays: 9:00 to 20:00
Holidays: 9:00 am to 17:00
Closed: Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays
Contacts:
E-mail: biblioteca@fct.unl.pt
Tel: +351 - 21 294 7829
Fax: +351 - 21 294 8347
Other equipment
Interchange programs
03-02-2004/05-03-2007
04-11-2002
Technical-scientific and cultural Cooperation and Exchange. Academic staff and student exchange.
14-07-2005
04-04-1997
To set up and regulate a pedagogic, scientific, technological and university extension programme. Academic staff, researchers and student exchange.
30-01-2003
Academic staff, students and non-teaching staff exchange. Joint research.
01-12-2005
Exchange of undergraduate and postgraduate students, teaching and non-teaching staff. Setting up joint research, academic publishing and international events.
19-02-2004
Academic staff, researchers, non-teaching staff and students exchange.
Establishing common research projects.
27-07-2004
Academic staff, students, administration, faculties and departments exchange
02-05-2005
Development and extension of scientific cooperation and academic research and training. Academic staff, researchers, non-teaching staff and students exchange.
17-10-1992
Establishes the terms of an annual internship programme to be carried out in French companies in France.
07-12-2005
Development of academic and cultural exchanges and mutual support in the fields of education, research, etc. Academic staff and student exchange (undergraduate and post-graduate)
20-03-2006
FCT support in training academic staff and in the curricular planning of ISCTEM courses; establishing scientific projects.
22-04-1997
Academic staff exchange. Organisation of workshops and conferences.
Student exchange. Setting up research projects.
04-06-1996
Cooperation in the area of Natural Sciences and Engineering. Welcoming academic staff and undergraduate and postgraduate students. Erasmus-Socrates Programme.
30-11-2005
Academic staff exchange (conferences, workshops, seminars). Promotion of academic programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Exchange of pedagogic and scientific experiments.
01-06-2004
Academic staff exchange (conferences, workshops, seminars). Promotion of academic programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Exchange of pedagogic and scientific experiments.
04-06-2004
Academic staff exchange (conferences, workshops, seminars). Promotion of academic programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Exchange of pedagogic and scientific experiments.
24-03-2004
Promoting international scientific cooperation in the fields of academic education, academic internships and research
27-03-2006
Establish cooperation in the fields of scientific and technical training, teaching and research.
18-10-2002
Cooperation between institutions, such as exchange of academic staff, researchers, non-teaching staff and students; establishing joint research programmes through common programmes.
18-07-2005
Cooperation through Socrates-Erasmus contracts and other bilateral programmes. Promotion of other academic activities.
18-07-2005
Academic exchange, setting up courses and research. Student exchange.
25-02-2003
25-02-2003
Internships
Internships/Employment
At FCT the internships and employment offer is centered on Student Support Section of the Academic Division (SAE/DA).
All FCT students or graduates that want to receive job and/or internship offers, or have access to other news, must subscribe the FCT Employment site at http://emprego.fct.unl.pt/. After account opening allowed by an administrator, they just proceed to the submission of the remaining data and a Curriculum Vitae.
They can apply online to offers that interest them most. Companies can thus see the applications at any time.
All data entered and their updating is of the sole responsibility of the user.
Scholarship
FCT rewards the students with the Merit Scholarship in accordance with the usual legal procedure:
Prizes and Scholarships
Awards
Competition of Ideas – Entrepreneurship
http://www4.fct.unl.pt/empreendedorismo/entrepreneurship
School Awards
Every year the FCT rewards students with the highest rating in courses that have completed.
Armando Lencastre Award – Msc in Environmental Engineering;
António Mineiro Award – Msc in Civil Engineering;
Jorge Neves da Silva Award – Msc in Mechanical Engineering;
Award the student who graduated with the highest rating of all courses of FCT.
FCT/UNL APDIO Award – For the student who achieved the highest grades in Operational Research.
Language courses
UAPRE | Training
Support Unit Projects and foreign support Directorate develops several supplementary training for students and alumni of the FCT to diversify their skills in other areas of knowledge fundamental to professional life. Examples are the language courses, Technical courses and other training. There are further specialised training courses directed to professionals from diverse areas of engineering, as an example: qualified experts in the field of energy and Teachers in school education.
The courses are held in schedules compatible with classes and work according to the school calendar.
Location: library building, floor 0
Contacts: Telef. direct: 212 947 897
Email: gab-ad.formar@fct.unl.pt
More information at http://www.fct.unl.pt/ensino/ensino
Food services
Students can eat at the UNL Social Welfare Services Canteen at the Caparica Campus.
There are also eleven catering facilities which are also available on the campus as an alternative.
Special needs facilities
FCT provides parking places specifically for students/academic staff with special needs, and also has access ramps to its buildings and lifts. It is also possible to carry out a case-by-case analysis to try and minimise any difficulties that such students/academic staff may feel.
Extra curriculum activities
The FCT Students'' Union (AEFCT) sponsors a large number of sports teams and thematic centres.
FCT sponsors two university "Tunas":
The Library periodically organises exhibitions, colloquia and conferences.
Periodically, the departments organize themed conferences.
Students associations
Founded in 1979, the Students'' Union of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (AEFCT) is the body that represents student interests, and aims mainly at the promotion and improvement of student studying conditions and the civic awareness of its members. The Students'' Union organises various activities each year, which include the New Student Welcoming Week, the Pedagogic Forum, and the Centres Forum, in addition to other one-off cultural, recreational or sports activities.
The AEFCT includes leisure centres, as well as pedagogic associations that are mainly targeted at students from specific undergraduate courses. Additionally, students are encouraged to join sports teams.