Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra - IPC

The teaching/learning process follows Bologna and is centred on the student capacities development towards labour market. Teaching methodologies include project development, individual/team research, laboratory and field practice. The curriculum of the Crop and Livestock Engineering and Organic Agriculture courses, Bachelor`s and master`s degrees, are unique in the country and in the context of technical training within the primary sector, with training in agriculture and livestock production in ESAC campus. A mandatory internship in all courses will allow a contact with real work situations.

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Academic staff is involved in research affiliated to research centers, mainly CERNAS. National and international partnerships with which the ESAC is committed to RTD&I are farmers, associations, enterprises and Higher Education Institutions, in networks and protocols of strategic collaboration. Research involves soil, water, plants or animals, in order to improve environmental sustainability, profitability and final product quality, genetic breeding and conservation of plants or animals and animal welfare. Agrarian economy, natural resources and agricultural policies are also research topics.

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Crop and livestock production (ISCED 0811), Horticulture (ISCED 0812), Agroecology

The bachelor aims at training professionals, in the area of agricultural and animal production technologies and provides solid basic training on multidisciplinary work. The degree corresponds to 180 ECTS and lasts for 3 years, including a final internship and 2 practical internship periods held at ESAC’s farm. Agriculture and Animal Husbandry are the major scientific areas of the degree (58% of the total ECTS). The farm in the campus of ESAC allows the development of critical mind, capacity of organization, innovation, teamwork and agriculture skills.

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The program offers solid multidisciplinary scientific and technological skills in agriculture and animal production areas, such as communication, economics and agricultural management, mechanization, rural construction, water and soil management. It aims to prepare professionals for the immediate professional exercise in the areas of training; able to integrate R&D projects; proceed for master's studies. The solid scientific and pedagogical profile of the academic staff, involved in different research areas, allows a strategy oriented to teaching, research and community support.

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MAB students, generally have different backgrounds that reinforce multi and transdisciplinary discussion. MAB is organized in basic and integrative disciplines (indicators determination and conversion to organic agriculture), also includes study visits or participation in congresses. The ESAC campus provides an educational, research, experimentation and demonstration space. ERASMUS and other mobilities enhance international knowledge, integration and benefit sharing for organic farming.

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full time

The curriculum for this cycle conferring a master's degree is unique in Portugal and in the context of technical training within the primary sector. The network of the national agricultural education is systematically composed of two dichotomous dimensions ¬ or it is offered in exclusive training on agriculture, or it is offered in exclusive training on livestock production. The MEAP curriculum encompasses the 2 strands, in an updated broadband training perspective. The training plan also constitutes a natural continuity and suitable to the curriculum of the 1st cycle.

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full time

ESAC, integrated in the Polytechnic of Coimbra since 1985, has a history of 134 years.The School is proud of its secular past, valuing and disseminating it. However, it has never ceased to adapt to new technologies and changes in the sectors for which it is suited. He teaches Professional Higher Education Courses, Degrees and Masters in the areas of biological agriculture, agriculture, environment, biotechnology, ecotourism, forests, gastronomy and food technology, characterized by a strong professional component and a very close connection to the business fabric, associations and cooperatives

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The ESAC has excelent researchers and professors involved in different research projects, has labs that are highly equipped (Ex. VALOREN) where students are developing their projects supervised by highly internationally recognized researchers and professors

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Engineering and Industrial Management (EIM) includes several knowledge areas, that have correspondence in the several UC of the Master Course, namely, Maintenance, Production, Logistics, Operations Management, among others. However, Industrial Maintenance is assumed as the most relevant research area of the Master Course and its differencing characteristic, what led “… to consider that the development of the Scientific Area of EIM should have the Industrial Maintenance Area the dominant one, as a differentiating and competitive factor in the national market”.

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Full time

Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra - IPC

A member of the polytechnic subsystem of the higher education system in Portugal, ISCAC offers a very practical oriented teaching profile. While also keeping a high scientific standard, what differentiates ISCAC's programs from others is how they provide the students practical learning, by having laboratorial courses ans many lecturers who also have an activity in the industry.

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ISCAC, as all polytechnic institutions, is not allowed to offer PhD programs. This hinders the school\'s research potential and processes. Although most of the academic staff has a PhD or is a PhD candidate, their research is carried out in external laboratories and research groups. However, there is a lot of research in the master programs, most of in in SMEs and focused in the region research is mostly conducted in external entities.

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Finance; Accounting; Marketing

The bachelor in Business Management is a study program that offers a very broad and complete view of management in the first 2 of the 3 years of duration and that, after that period, allows students to choose a specific area of specialization (finance, marketing, or human resources) for the final academic year. The final year, in each of the specializations, has a focus on providing students with a very practical oriented learning with a course that allows them to simulate the creation of a company, preparing them for those tasks when they hit the job market.

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full time, part time

Banku Augstskola, Riga, Latvia; Fachhochschule Brandenburg, Germany; Brno University of Technology, Hungary; Karol Adamiecki University of Economics, Katowice ,Poland; Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

The master program in Financial Analysis provides a very focused specialization, valuable for both recent graduates and experienced professionals by developing scientific and technical skills.

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full time, part time

The master program on Business Management offers students a very broad and complete perspective of all areas of management(HR, finance, marketing, operations, enterpreneurship, innovation), which makes this program a good option for people of diverse profiles and with diverse career paths. The final year can consist of an internship or a project, also catering to different interests and research profiles.

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full time, part time

This study program addreses an identified market demand for controllers, and a growing concern of organizations with management control. Once a concern of only very large organizations, mangement is currently considered mandatory for organizations of all sizes and sectors. This study program offers a very in depth and profession-oriented training, developing highly skilled professionals capable of creating value by management control execution and planning.

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full time, part time

This study program is the one with the longest tradition in the school and mostly responsible for the long lasting positive image of the school in the market. But this program doesn't rely on past glory, maintaining a very up to date approach and being recognized by the OCC (professional organization of the certified accountants) as one of the degrees that allows graduates to become certified accountants.

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full time, part time

Universidad de Burgos, Spain; Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania; University Politechnica of Bucarest, Romania; Universidad de Murcia, Spain

This study program is a recent one, that provides education in an area where there was clearly a demand of highly skilled and independent secretarial / clerk professionals. On this arena, most of the professionals have only lower level degrees or no specific training in the area, which means the graduates of this program are clearly distinctive in the market. The study program is more complete than lower level secretarial training by providing also a managerial mindset as well as traditional secretarial skills.

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full time, part time

This recent study program addresses two of the main areas portuguese companies have identified as critical to their growth: marketing and internationalization. The study program offers a complete and thorough preparation in marketing with an applied focus in developing professionals capable of helping companies to improve their market presence, namely in foreign markets.

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full time, part time

This study program is an innovative and successful program since it prepares students for the specific challenges and specificities of management and accounting in the public sector. This allows graduates to adapt to working in the public sector faster and easier than other professionals with a "normal" degree in management or accounting who need more time and training to specialize in the public sector after completing their studies.

yes

full time, part time

Banku Augstskola, Riga, Latvia;

This study program provides a thorough and rigorous training in the critical factors of success for accountants (accounting and taxation). The good performance of the study program in responding to market demand and to cope with the ever changing portuguese tax legislation has earned this program praise.

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full time, part time

This is a very innovative program in the school. This program is a joint degree between ISCAC and the Agricultural School, benefiting from the sinergies resulting from having these so different schools in the same institution. This collaborative effort allows management graduates to gain knowledge of the agricultural sector, preparing them to manage an organization in this area, and also allows agriculture graduates to gain basic knowledge of management, in order to assume the management of businesses in their field.

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full time, part time

This recent study program is aimed at preparing professionals to help companies develop their business with an internacional outlook. The degree is broad and flexible, allowing students to operate in all kind of organizational context, from SMEs, big multinational companies or even the public sector.

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The master program in Human Resource Management is the most recent degree of the school and one that came to address a clear market opportunity, since it's the first public master course in HR in the Coimbra region. It is structured in a way that provides a broad understanding of the context of people management, while also training the students in the specific technical skills of the operational HR activities

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This master program allows the students of the bachelor in Marketing and International Business to further specialize and be able to create more value for companies aiming at internationalization, while also allowing graduates from other degrees to become more prepared to work in an international context.

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