/ APPLICATION FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021

For the application for admission in the academic year 2020/2021 in postgraduate courses (Post-Graduations, Masters and PhD’s) the Faculdade de Belas-Artes offers three phases of application. Vacancies in the second and third phase (in each of the specific regimes) will depend on the existence of surplus places in the earlier stage.

Two regimes of application, with specific vacancies, are available:

• Vacancies for admission of national students, European Union citizens and residents in Portugal (citizens, not being nationals of an EU Member State, legally residing in Portugal for more than two years, continuously, on January 1 of the year of the application).
• Vacancies for admission of international students.

Students that fullfil the following conditions are considered as international students:

• Not having Portuguese nationality;
• Not being a national from a Member State of the European Union;
• Not legally residing in Portugal until the 1st of January of the year in which intend to enroll in higher education for more than two years, continuously, and not being family of foreign citizens that hold a resident permit for more than two years;
• Not being family of a Portuguese or European Union national;
• Not having until the 1st of January of the year in which intend to enroll in higher education a status of equality of rights and duties assigned under an international treaty granted between the Portuguese State and the State of which students are nationals.

Applications of students on finishing stage of a Licenciatura degree in a Portuguese higher education institution are accepted.
In case of admission, the same is subject to the presentation of the degree certificate, mandatorily until 30 September 2020.

Detailed information about the conditions and application requirements, are available in the web page of each course.

Application calendar

1st phase of application
(for national students, European Union citizens and residents in Portugal, and international students)

Application > april 3 to april 24, 2020
Publication of results > from may 22, 2020
Enrollment of admitted candidates > within 10 days after the publication of the results

2nd phase of application
(for national students, European Union citizens and residents in Portugal, and international students)

The 2nd phase of application will only be available in courses with surplus places from the 1st phase.
Information regarding available positions for the 2nd stage will be published in this page from june 8, 2020.

Application >  june 8 to june 26, 2020
Publication of results > from july 13, 2020
Enrollment of admitted candidates > within 10 days after the publication of the result

3rd phase of application – last phase
(for national students, European Union citizens and residents in Portugal)

The 3rd phase of application will only be available in courses with surplus places from the 2nd phase.

Application >  july 14 to july 20, 2020
Publication of results > from august 1, 2020
Enrollment of admitted candidates > within 10 days after the publication of the result

available vacancies

The available positions for each of the courses, for admission in the 2020/2021 academic year are indicated below.

Post Graduations:

* due to the small number of candidates, the course will not open in 2020/2021. It will continue as a research line of the Center for Research and Studies in Fine Arts (CIEBA)
** available positions for the 3rd phase of applications

Masters:

* available positions for the 3rd phase of applications

PhDs:

 * available positions for the 3rd phase of applications

HOW TO APPLY

Applications are made exclusively online through the Fenix platform.
For the presentation of the application, a non-refundable application fee is due:

• Application in the first phase: 30 EUR
• Application in the second phase: 40 EUR
• Application in the third phase: 40 EUR

Before you initiate your on-line application to the course please read carefully the instructions below. For questions regarding the submission of your application do not hesitate to contact the Faculty’s Academic Services

1. To make your online application, you must access the Fenix system and authenticate with the data of your Campus@ULisboa account. If you have lost access to your Campus@ULisboa account, you can make the recovery here
2. If you haven’t attended any course at Faculdade de Belas-Artes and have no Campus@ULisboa account, you must necessarily carry out a pre-registration in Fenix application here
3. After accessing the application, you must select the Applications tab. Next, you must create your application by choosing the regime and the course. After these steps, you must fill the requested data in the electronic form.
4. All the documents required for the application process must be attached in digital format.
5. The online application will become valid only after payment of the application fee. For that purpose, an ATM payment reference is made available (only usable under the portuguese banking system). It is also possible to make the payment by credit/debit card. If the payment is not made until the indicated deadline, the application will be canceled.
6. The non-submission of the required documents, or the incorrect presentation (e.g., Illegible document, not legalized foreign document, etc.) will invalidate the application. The candidate will be informed of this fact by the Fenix platform or by e-mail.
7. Errors or omissions in filling out the electronic application form, or in carrying out the application process, are the sole responsibility of the candidate.

After the ranking process, applicants will be informed by email of the final result of the application. In case of acceptance, it will be dependent on the presentation at the Academic Services of the original (or a legal copy) of the degree certificate, during the indicated period.

>> Begin On-Line Application

Required documents

The application process will include the following documents:

For Post Graduation and Master courses:

• Certificate of the academic degree or equivalent (present the original at the Academic Services in case of admission);
• Transcript of records;
• Academic, scientific or professional curriculum (with copies of the documents to which it refers);
• Letter of application / motivation to the frequency of the course;
• Copy of identification document (passport, UE citizen card, etc.);
• Declaration, under oath, that the candidate is not a Portuguese national, and is not covered by any of the conditions which, according to the International Student Statute, doesn’t confer him the status of International Student (only for students who are covered by the International Student Statute)

For all post graduation courses and for masters in multimedia art, drawing, communication design, equipment design, painting and contemporary typographical and editorial practices, it is also necessary to present a portfolio. In the case of audiovisual records, the candidate may indicate in a specific area of the portfolio a link to a digital repository.

For PhD’s:

Legalization of foreign documents
If you have completed your degree/course abroad, and haven’t made any prior application for it’s registration, recognition or equivalence in Portugal, for the Mestrado application process it’s required the legalisation of your degree certificate under the Portuguese legislation. Authentic documents issued in a foreign country are considered legalized in Portugal as long as the signature of the public servent who issued it is recognized by a portuguese diplomatic or consular officer in that country and authenticated with the respective consular stamp. Similarly, if the country where the degree was obtained is a party of the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961 (Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents), you can alternatively authenticate the certificate by the Hague Apostille Convention.
Certificates issued in member countries of the European Union do not require legalization. 

If the documents are not in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish or Italian, they must be translated into one of these languages by a translator recognized by the Portuguese diplomatic representation in the country where the document was issued. Similarly, the following authorities can also carry out and certify translations: notaries; consulate in Portugal of the country where the document was issued and suitable translator; conservadores of any Conservatória; lawyers and solicitadores.

other information

Admission and enrollment conditions
The admitted candidates must perform their enrollment and registration during the periods set out. At the time of registration and enrollment is mandatory the payment of the first installment of the tuition fee (30% of the total annual tuition fee in the case of international students) along with the registration fee. In case of withdrawal of the course, duly formalized, the student is only relieved from paying the tution fees’ installments that have not expired. The payment made by the registration and enrollment is not refunded in case of withdrawal.
The issue by the Academic Services of the declaration of acceptance to the approved students in the application process, is subject to the payment of the above amounts. Placement in the course is only valid for the registration and enrollment in the academic year concerned in the application.

Other information for international students
Students who enroll in higher education under the Statute of the International Student (Decree-Law no. 36/2014 of 10 March) maintain the status of international student until the end of the course in which enroll initially or to which change afterwards. Exceptions to this provision are applied to international students who acquire the nationality of an EU Member State. In this situation, the termination of the application of international student status as a result of the acquisition of the nationality of an EU Member State takes effect in the academic year following the date of acquisition of nationality.

Consult here the Regulamento de Ingresso e Acesso para Estudantes Internacionais da Universidade de Lisboa.

Consult also the Universidade de Lisboa website, where you’ll find a comprehensive set of practical information (on accommodation, living costs, visas, etc.) for international students.