deadlines for courses running throughout the academic year or in the first semester:

 Applications Now Open for the First and Second Phases of the Postgraduate Specialization Course in Contemporary Photography Discourses 

Applications >  22 June to 13 July 2026

Publication of results > from 27 July 2026
Enrollment and registration of accepted candidates > within 5 days of receiving enrollment and registration instructions.

2nd phase of application

The 2nd phase of application will only be available in courses with surplus places from the 1st phase.

Information on vacancies for the 2nd phase of applications will be posted on this page.

Application > from 5 August to 19 August 2026
Publication of results > from 7 September 2026
Enrolment of admitted candidates > within 5 days after receiving the enrolment instructions

 

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

Advanced Studies in Sound Art: Experimental Processes
Digital Experience Design
Scientific Illustration
Illustration and Visual Narrative
Technical Methods in Drawing

Applications >  22 April to 6 May 2026

Publication of results > from 20 May 2026
Enrollment and registration of accepted candidates > within 5 days of receiving enrollment and registration instructions.

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 on vacancies for the 2nd phase of applications will be posted on this page.

Application > from 27 May to 10 June 2026
Publication of results > from 24 June 2026
Enrolment of admitted candidates > within 5 days after receiving the enrolment instructions

 

Deadlines for courses running in the second semester:

1st Application Phase – Sound Art: Experimental Processes

Application > 14 October to 11 November 2026
Publication of results > from 30 November 2026
Enrolment and registration of successful candidates > within 5 days of notification of enrolment and registration instructions

 

2nd Application Phase – Sound Art: Experimental Processes

Application > 15 December to 5 January 2027
Publication of results > from 25 January 2027
Enrolment and registration of successful candidates > within 5 days of notification of enrolment and registration instructions

The 2nd application phase will only be available for courses with remaining places from the 1st application phase.

 

Applications from graduating students

Applications are accepted from students who are in the process of completing a degree at a Portuguese higher education institution.
To this end, and in place of the document proving the academic degree, the candidate must submit a Declaration, under oath, that they are, in the academic year 2025/2026, in the process of completing a Licenciado’s degree, with an indication of the expected final classification. In this case, admission to the postgraduate course is subject to the submission of a document proving that the degree has been obtained, which must be submitted by a date to be announced in the application calendar. If this is not submitted by the deadline, the right to enrol and register for the course is considered extinguished.
On the other hand, in situations where the conditionally admitted student completes their course with a final classification lower than the expected final classification indicated in the declaration, their admission is cancelled, except in situations where the number of applicants to the course is lower than the number of places set.

 

Schedule periodically updated according to the forecast for postgraduate courses in the 2026/2027 academic year. Applications for advanced courses are made available less in advance of the start of the course.

Applications are made exclusively online via the Fenix platform.
A non-refundable application fee of €50 is payable upon submission of the application.

• Application: to be determined

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

The vacancies for applications for admission in the 2026/2027 academic year are as follows:

Advanced Course in Sound Art: Experimental Processes	15
Digital Experience Design	22
Scientific Illustration	6
Illustration and Visual Narrative	-
Technical Methods in Drawing	9

Contemporary Photography Discourses

20

Obs.: Number of vacancies to be updated depending on the expected operation of postgraduate courses.

 

The application process will include the following documents:

• 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)
• Portfolio*

* For all practical post-graduation courses it is also necessary to present a portfolio (ex.: Sound Art: Experimental Processes;  Digital Experience Design, Discourses in Contemporary Photography, Scientific Ilustration, Illustration and Visual Narrative,Technical Methods in Drawing; amongst others), applicants must also submit a portfolio or documentation showcasing their work. If there are audiovisual recordings, you may provide, in a specific section of the portfolio, a link to a digital repository.

All documents required for the application process must be submitted in digital format, as a PDF file.

 

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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 or Spanish, 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.

In the process of selection there’s an overall assessment of your application, subject to a numerical scale of 0 to 20 values, in which the following criteria will be considered:

1. Final rank of academic degree. In the case of academic degrees obtained in foreign higher education institutions (when the foreign higher education institution adopts a different scale from the Portuguese), the mark will be the result of the proportional conversion of the obtained grade to the Portuguese grading system;
2. Academic, scientific, technical and artistic curriculum and / or portfolio. 

Applicants will be ranked according to the score obtained in the evaluation, resulting from the simple arithmetic average of the classifications attributed to each of the selection criteria, and candidates who obtain a grade lower than 9.5 will be excluded from the selection procedure. The assessment parameters are described in Annex I to the Regulation of Graduate Studies of the Faculty of Fine Arts.

An interview can take place if the Course Coordinator considers necessary, in which case it will be included in the evaluation criteria indicated above. Candidates who do not attend the interview will be excluded from the selection procedure.

The admitted candidates must perform their enrolment and registration during the periods set out. At the time of registration and enrolment is mandatory the payment of the first instalment 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 tuition fees’ instalments that have not expired. The payment made by the registration and enrolment 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 enrolment in the academic year concerned in the application.

Students who have been admitted on a conditional basis – students who are in the process of completing their degree – must pay, as a deposit, a fee equivalent to the first instalment of the tuition fee due for the academic year, within the time limit set. Enrolment and registration will only take place once the certificate proving completion of the degree has been presented.
In cases where it is not possible to definitively admit a student, the amount paid as a deposit may be refunded. A student placed on a conditional basis may not be admitted for the following reasons reasons:

• failure to complete the degree;
• failure to present the supporting certificate by the deadline;
• when the degree has been completed with a final classification lower than the expected final classification indicated in the declaration of honor submitted in the application, except in situations where the number of applicants to the course is lower than the number of places set.

Failure to pay the above mentioned deposit by the deadline will result in forfeiture of the right to enrol and register on the course, and the Faculty may call the next candidate on the placement list until the place is filled or there are no candidates for the competition in question.

The final issuance by the Academic Services of a declaration of acceptance to the students approved and admitted in the selection process is conditional on the payment of the amounts mentioned. Placement on the course is only valid for enrolment and registration in the academic year to which the application relates.

Admission to the course is also conditional on the submission to the Academic Services, by the date to be announced in the application calendar, of the original or certified copy of the documents proving the access qualifications, except when these relate to qualifications obtained at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon.

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