The Recognition of foreign degrees and diplomas has been in force since 1 January, 2019, as per Decree-Law no. 66/2018 of 16 August and Decree no. 43/2020 of 14 February, the latter as an amendment to Decree no. 33/2019 of 25 January.

How to make a request?

• The request for recognition is to be submitted in the national platform RecON, by way of a form made available by the Directorate General for Higher Education (DGES), alongside other documents in digital format.
• The request is subject to payment of a fee.
• Upon payment, U.Porto shall analyse the request and start a proceeding. This proceeding will then be carried out by the respective intended Faculty.

For information on submitting the application, you can consult the DGES website, after payment of the due fees.

To obtain information regarding the For matters regarding the status of the request or its validation, you shall contact the Academic Management Service – Graduate Training Unit – sga@letras.up.pt and/or Olga Silva - osilva@letras.up.pt.

You shall contact the Rectorate of the University of Porto directly, to e-mail address formacao@reit.up.pt, in the following cases:

• Automatic recognition; 
• Precedence-based recognition;
• Before paying the fees due.