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ISCTE - Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa
Higher Institute of Business and Labour Sciences

Established:	1972
Type:	Public university institute
Rector:	Luís Antero Reto
Students:	6,000
Location:	Lisbon, Portugal
Campus:	Cidade Universitária de Lisboa
Website:	iscte.pt

ISCTE - Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (pron. IPA: [ĩʃti'tutu supɨɾi'oɾ dɨ si'ẽsiɐʃ du tɾɐ'baʎu i dɐ ẽ'pɾezɐ]; in English Higher Institute of Business and Labour Sciences), in Lisbon, is a Portuguese public university institute (with the unique formal status of Non-Integrated University Institute), located in the centre of Lisbon in the campus known as the "University City" (Cidade Universitária de Lisboa) which is chiefly occupied by the premisses of the University of Lisbon. ISCTE is on the way to be renamed Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisbon University Institute), and already presents itself as such (both in Portuguese and English) in many occasions, for example when hosting international conferences.

1 Departments
2 History
3 Research units
4 Notable alumni and professors
5 See also
6 Notes
7 External links

[edit] Departments

The University Institute has about 6,000 students at both undergraduate and graduate levels and 400 lecturers (comprising Teaching Assistants, Assistant Professors, Associate Professors and Full Professors), and offers all levels of academic degrees in Anthropology, Architecture, Economics, Computer science, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, Finance, Business Management, Human resources, Industrial engineering, History, Computer science & Business Administration, Marketing, Social psychology, Political Science, Sociology and Planning, amongst many others specializations.

[edit] History

ISCTE was established in Lisbon in 1972^[1], from the faculty and facilities of the Instituto de Estudos Sociais (created in 1963), as a first step towards a new and innovative public university in Lisbon at the time. The neighboring Instituto de Estudos Sociais continued to grow aside its offspring and became one of the most prestigious institutes of the country in the fields of social and political studies, attracting some of the Portuguese leading academics in these related fields.

From its creation ISCTE was able to grant the degrees of bachelor and licenciatura (a 4 to 5 year degree, which were roughly equivalent to the present master's degree after the implementation of the Bologna process, often with a final written scientific dissertation). From 1983 onwards, ISCTE also granted the Portuguese full scientific master's degree (a specific degree above the common master's but still bellow a PhD.)

What was to be the first college of a never completed larger projected university (due to the carnation revolution of 1974) always remained as a non-integrated University Institute - situation that was institutionalized in 1988. From that date onwards, ISCTE grants all academic degrees, comprising Bachelors, Masters, PhDs, Honorary doctorates and Habilitations (equivalent to higher doctorates, called agregação in Portuguese).

ISCTE is today part of both the Fundação das Universidades Portuguesas (Fundation of Portuguese Universities) and the Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas (Council of Rectors of the Portuguese Universities).

[edit] Research units

This institution comprises quality research centers in several domains^[2] such as Management, Economy, Information Technology, Social Studies and others. Additionally, a significant number of the academic staff develop their research as affiliated members of national research institutes including some of the restricted Associate Laboratories of the State. Under these national research institutions, with critical mass on the respective domains, they develop research leading to publications in both international conferences and scientific journals .

[edit] Notable alumni and professors

João de Pina-Cabral - Anthropologist (former professor)
João Mário Grilo - Film director (former student in Sociology)
José Sócrates - Prime Minister (MBA programme)
José Vieira da Silva - Minister for Labour and Social Solidarity (professor)
Manuel Braga da Cruz - Rector of the Catholic University of Portugal (PhD student in Sociology and former professor)
Manuel Carvalho da Silva - Sindicalist and leader of the General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers (PhD student in Sociology)
Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues - Minister for Education (professor and former student)
Miguel Vale de Almeida - Anthropologist and LGBT activist (professor)
Paulo Pedroso - former minister in the Government of Portugal and member of the Parliament of Portugal (professor and former student)
Paulo Trezentos - creator of Caixa Mágica (teaching assistant, PhD student in Information Technologies, former undergraduate student on Computer Science and Management)