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 means of transport.
To find out about the conditions of access and use, see ipbike.ipb.pt/.
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 to regularize access to health care in Portugal, weekly rehabilitation exercises during working hours to prevent work-related musculoskeletal injuries and mediation in occupational medicine processes.
For more information contact:
Gabinete de Saúde
Residência Verde dos SAS-UPB
Campus de Santa Apolónia
5300-252 Bragança
Phone number: 964 445 729
Plataform SASocial [Health]
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 to the community, the event included both scientific and more informal sessions.
The Graça Morais Mountain Arts Laboratory, in collaboration with the Bragança Students’ Association and the Inclusion4all project, organized a poetry soiree dedicated to the CPLP (Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries) community, in celebration of Poetry Day.
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 The genres in competition were short story, poetry and micro-story, provided they were unpublished and written in Portuguese, German, Spanish, French or English.
The award ceremony took place on July 12 at the School of Education, and students Filipe Pires (1st prize), Carlos Liberal (2nd prize) and Ricardo Gonçalves (3rd prize) were congratulated.
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 advanced training and extensive experience in the field of Translation Studies. At the same time, it aims to help raise students’ awareness of the importance of languages and translation in an increasingly global world, which also has an obligation to defend linguistic minorities.
The awards ceremony took place on 12 July at the School of Education, where students Duarte Luz (1st prize), Ana Margarida Costa (2nd prize) and Charles Barbosa (3rd prize) were congratulated.
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 have subtitling, audio description and live interpretation in portuguese sign language.
“ Diálogos com o Cinema” (Dialogues with Cinema), an initiative of the Graça Morais Mountain Arts Laboratory and the School of Communication, Administration and Tourism. This event, with free admission, aims to reinforce movie-watching habits, as well as providing an opportunity for the community to watch films outside the commercial circuit.
The “Sétima Arte | UPB Audiovisual Week – 1st Edition” took place from October 23 to 27 with various activities at the Graça Morais Mountain Arts Laboratory.
Throughout the week, various guests shared their professional experiences, projects and knowledge.
IMPLICARTE – Visual, Dramatic and Musical Arts Exhibition
The 8th edition of IMPLICARTE reinforced what was started in 2008 by the departments of artistic studies at the Bragança School of Education: putting students and their work in contact with the public outside the academy.
Through a range of activities including exhibitions, performances, concerts, conferences and workshops in various locations in the city of Bragança, through contact with professionals in the fields of visual arts, design, music, dramatic expression and theatre, the aim is to give students, as well as the general public, the chance to begin or complement their training and contribute to local cultural expansion.
Find out more about IMPLICARTE here.
