University of Coimbra

The Main University space accommodates simply atiny low a part of the full that constitutes the University of Coimbra these days. It occupies numerous areas within the town, with its eight schools, [*fr1] a score analysis centres, AN Institute for knowledge domain analysis, structures for the encouragement of entrepreneurship and of affiliation to the management field, a university structure, the museum, the Gil Vicente tutorial Theatre, the arboretum, structures of support for college kids (dormitories, university restaurants, bars, study areas, centres for social contact) and therefore the biggest academy within the country.

At the top of the 20th century, a movement of a good physical growth of the University began, and that is at now, attaining its peak. the quantity of construction concerned during this movement is what is more the most important within the history of this establishment.

In 1992 Delawarevelopment} works resulting in the accommodation of the University's field two started within the Pinhal de Marrocos, occupying a district cherish field one that is to be found within the Main University space. The Departments of pc Engineering, Electrotechnical Engineering, engineering science, Chemical Engineering and technology (Faculty of Science and Technology) have functioned here since 2001.

In addition to a good quantity of departments happiness to the present school, the colleges of psychological science, of instructional Sciences, of Sports Sciences and of education also will operate on field two.

The construction of the third field of the University, the Health Sciences field, wherever the colleges of drugs and Pharmacy furthermore as numerous analysis centres and units are going to be transferred to, began in 2001, the year within which the primary construction works were verified.

When fully finished, this field of the University of Coimbra can represent at the side of the University Hospitals of Coimbra, the Portuguese Institute of medicine, the National Institute of forensic pathology and therefore the medicine Hospital of Coimbra, the most important field for rendering health services in Europe.

The University of Coimbra is at this time AN example of dynamism in its constant seek for rising the management, analysis and therefore the education models used, furthermore as AN increasing link with the community by conducive additional and additional to the development of science, technique and to the affirmation that culture is a vital part in people's lives.

Such AN angle places this University within the leadership of the many comes, not solely in Portuguese Republic however conjointly within the remainder of Europe.