The Lusophone University of Humanities and Technology is the largest private university in Portugal and is part of the subsystem private and cooperative higher education Portuguese. The name derives from the University of the term "Lusophone" which refers to the common linguistic and cultural space demarcated by the use of Portuguese language. The University assumes Lusophone with the institution responsible for scientific, cultural, social and economic space of geographically and linguistically with over 200 million inhabitants.
Civil society and citizens in general expect the universities and higher education institutions in general are one of the central poles of development of their countries and their culture. In the midst of many adversities and constraints, and a national framework from a legal, economic and social is not always favorable, higher education, particularly private higher education, has been playing this a globally positive role in Portugal over the last thirty years.
The University of Lusophone Humanities and Technology managed during this period to assert itself as the largest institution of higher education sub-sector of Portuguese private and cooperative, vital and integral part of the Lusophone Group, the biggest project of this Portuguese language learning with schools and training in Portugal and in all Portuguese speaking countries ( http://portal.grupolusofona.pt ).
Today, the search for a tertiary level reaches levels never seen in the past and the higher education institutions are faced with public increasingly varied and diverse. Many of these students represent different public as mature students or foreign origin, the institutions that put new and exciting challenges.
Simultaneously, the higher education institutions increasingly feel the need to broaden the base of development of their activities, leaving to focus exclusively on production and accumulation of knowledge, to worry more actively with the distribution and circulation of knowledge between the network of institutions and organizations that gather around it.
Thus, in addition to students and teachers, unique objects of activity of universities in the past, businesses and other organizations are increasingly emerging as a central activity of the vertices University and a nuclear pillar of its growth and sustainability.
Massification, internationalization, innovation and entrepreneurship, so are terms that became part of the vocabulary of university life and what matters to each institution able to internalize the activities of your day to day.
The changes in the profile of the target groups of institutions have been accompanied by profound changes in patterns of education and training, including those that resulted from the implementation of the Bologna Declaration. Above all, today's higher education institutions are required to define clearly what they want is for their role in society and what their contribution to social, economic and social community in which they operate.
The University of Lusophone Humanities and Technology has as its core mission through its teaching and research to develop scientific, cultural, economic and social development of Portugal and all countries where Portuguese is spoken.
In order to achieve these goals the University conducting activities for training, research and service in diverse areas of knowledge relevant to society, and constantly seeks and actively establish itself as a valuable partner and indispensable to all those who like her, believe that higher education and awareness are the main drivers of development and advancement of our society.
Contact:
Campo Grande, 376
Lisbon
Portugal
1749-021
+351217515500
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