Community Vegetable Gardens

Community vegetable gardens are spaces provided by the UPB for employees and people from the surrounding community to grow organic and, consequently, healthier products. As well as promoting direct contact with nature, they promote contact between the community, the sharing of knowledge and the promotion of healthy living. On the other hand, they contribute to …

Sports_UPBike

UPBike – Electric bikes The UPBike Project is funded by the U-Bike Portugal programme, a nationwide project to promote cycling in academia, which aims to encourage the adoption of more sustainable habits in terms of mobility. This project enables the UPB academic community to use electric or conventional bicycles as an alternative to individual motorized …

Health Office

The Health Office’s mission is to promote the health (physical, psychological and social) and well-being of the entire academic community by offering a range of specialized services (in partnership with other entities in the district). These services include support in the areas of Nursing, Sexuality and Family Planning, Psychology and Nutrition, help for international students …

Other arts_world poetry day

In the week of World Poetry Day, the Portuguese Department of the School of Education organized Book and Literature Week, with the aims of promoting reading and sharing the research and literary production of the Portuguese department’s teachers, in conjunction with other cultural agents, such as the Trás-os-Montes Academy of Letters. Intended to be open …

other arts_ESE literary competition

School of Education Literary Competition The Department of Foreign Languages of the School of Education organized another edition of the Literary Competition. The aim of the VIII Literary Competition is to encourage literary production by all UPB students. The genres in competition were short story, poetry and micro-story, provided they were unpublished and written in …

Other arts_translation competition

Translation Contest The Department of Foreign Languages at the School of Education has organised another edition of the 8th Translation Competition. This competition aims to encourage the practice of translation into various working languages in a formal context, offering higher education students the opportunity to take translation tests and be assessed by a committee with …

Cinema_Accessible Film Festival

The Accessible Film Festival was born in 2019 as part of UPB’s Master’s Degree in Translation. It is a regional and national reference event that offers accessible programming. The main objective is to make cinema and cultural visits accessible to people with hearing and visual impairments, but above all open to everyone. All sessions will …