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Doctoral Program in Architecture (PDA)
2025/26 - Admission - Doctoral Programme - 3rd Phase

Deadlines

Start date for application submittal:	2025-06-11
Deadline for application submittal:	2025-07-25
Deadline for disclosure of approved applications:	2025-08-04

Information to be provided by the candidate

Information to be provided - Personal data

• Name (Mandatory)
• Identity Card (Mandatory)
• Taxpayer no. (Mandatory)
• Date of birth (Mandatory)
• Country of origin (Mandatory)
• Nationality (Mandatory)
• Father's name (Mandatory)
• Mother's name (Mandatory)
• Street (Residence) (Mandatory)
• Parish (Residence) (Mandatory)
• Postal Code (Residence) (Mandatory)
• Country (Residence) (Mandatory)
• Telephone contact (Mandatory)
• Gender (Mandatory)
• Marital status (Mandatory)
• E-mail (Mandatory)

Information to be provided - Academic and professional data

• Academic qualifications (Mandatory)
• Country where the last higher education degree was completed (Mandatory)
• Last higher education course in which you enrolled. (Mandatory)
• Last school year which you enrolled in a higher education course (Mandatory)
• Country in which you completed secondary education (Mandatory)
• Professional qualifications (Mandatory)
• Course you are applying for (Mandatory)
• Prioritisation of areas of expertise (Mandatory)
• How did you learn about this course? (Optional)
• Applications for other courses (Optional)
• Additional information relevant to the application (Optional)

Information to be provided - Scanned documents

• Cartas de Motivação (Mandatory)
• Other documents deemed relevant to ranking criteria (Mandatory)
• Curriculum vitae (Mandatory)
• Photo (coloured "passport photo", preferably with a neutral background; 200 pixels high by 140 pixels wide; JPG format; Average or higher quality in the JPG compression algorithm) (Mandatory)
• Identification document (Mandatory)
• CV (Mandatory)
• Certificate entitling the holder of a Portuguese university degree, or equivalent to a Portuguese university degree, with the final mark (Mandatory)
• Certificate of subjects taken and passed in higher education, indicating the regime (semester or year) and no. of Course Units/ECTS. If your certificate does not contain all these elements, you should add a detailed list of subjects taken, with the missing information. Students of the institution must attach only the detailed list of subjects taken, with the indication of regime (semester or year) and no. of Course Units/ECTS. If you did not pass a subject, a certificate of enrolment in higher education. For qualifications obtained abroad, the document must be authenticated by the official education services of the respective country and recognised by the Portuguese diplomatic or consular entity, or bear the Apostille of the Hague Convention. The same applies to the translations of documents not written in Spanish, French or English. (Mandatory)
• Declaração de fluência em língua portuguesa (Mandatory)
• Letters of recommendation (Optional) (Optional) (2*)
• Certidão de conclusão de licenciatura. No caso de aluno em conclusão de licenciatura, deve entregar uma declaração indicando a data de conclusão e média final previsível, ficando a inscrição condicionada à apresentação do respectivo diploma. Para habilitações obtidas no estrangeiro o documento deve ser autenticado pelos serviços oficiais de educação do respectivo país e reconhecido pela autoridade diplomática ou consular portuguesa ou trazer a apostilha da Convenção de Haia. O mesmo deve acontecer relativamente às traduções de documentos cuja língua original não seja a espanhola, a francesa ou a inglesa. (Optional)

Fees

Fee:

Segundos e terceiros ciclos

(fixed) 55 €

Contact for further information

Academic and International Services
Telephone:(+351) 220 42 5415 / 22 042 5416
Fax:(+351) 22 605 71 99

Number of vacancies

Admission Scheme	Curricular year	Vacancies
Admission - Doctoral Programme	1	9