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Social Action Office

Serviços e Informação académica

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENT INTO HIGHER EDUCATION

The scholarship is an annual cash benefit for school fees, allocated by the State, in the lost state and in the respective school year, when the student does not have an adequate minimum level of financial resources, subject to an assessment of the condition of resources.

More information: Grants from the General Directorate of Higher Education

Regulation for the Granting of Scholarships to Students of Higher Education

Applications for scholarships are open for the academic year 2025-2026

To Apply

The scholarship is aimed at all students attending higher education.
All applicants who have access credentials (Social Action Scholarship), even if they were not enrolled in the 2024/2025 academic year or earlier, can renew their application on their personal page.

New applicants who do not have access credentials or have attended higher education but have never applied for the scholarship should go to the Social Action Office of the Escola Superior Artística do Porto – ESAP, with their Citizen’s Card, to pre-register – they will receive access credentials, which will allow them to complete and submit the application for the current academic year.

Candidates who have applied for a scholarship through the National Competition for Access to Higher Education (public), either in the current academic year or in previous academic years, should go to ESAP’s Social Action Office to request the transfer of their scholarship application from public higher education to private higher education.

For more information, please contact the ESAP’s Social Action Office.

Application deadlines

The application for a scholarship must be submitted by the following deadlines:

– Between June 25 and September 30
– Within 20 working days of enrolment, if enrolment is made after September 30
– In the 20 working days following the issue of proof of the start of the internship, for those doing a professional internship.

You can also apply for the scholarship during the academic year, between October 1 and May 31. In this case, the value of the scholarship is proportional to the value calculated for one year, taking into account the period between the application and the end of the academic term or internship.

If you are finishing your bachelor’s degree this academic year and are starting your master’s degree next academic year, you must apply for a scholarship within the following deadlines:

– Between June 25 and September 30
– In the 20 working days following registration, if this takes place after September 30.

Merit Scholarships - CESAP

CESAP awards merit grants that aim to promote performance and reward the excellence of students entering or attending ESAP courses.The conditions for awarding a Merit Scholarship are the student’s enrollment or enrollment in an undergraduate, integrated master’s or master’s degree course of ESAP and meet the following requirements cumulatively:

a) Have Portuguese nationality.

b) For students who enter the first year of any course have been admitted in the academic year of the scholarship through access tender and have an access average of 17 or higher without rounding.

c) For students who already attend any of the subsequent years of the respective courses, the scholarship will be awarded to the student who is regularly registred, obtaining the highest classification in each year and in each course, determined by the classification in the previous year, provided that equal to or greater than 17 , without rounding, being attributed conditioned to the performance of all UC’s of that year and not being in any debt of any importance to the CESAP.

Regulation for Assignment of CESAP Merit Scholarship (only in Portuguese)

DGES Merit Scolarship

The merit scholarship is a fixed-sum cash benefit for students who have shown exceptional achievement.
It is considered as exceptional achievement when the student satisfies, cumulatively, the following conditions:

a) In the academic year prior to the award of the scholarship, the studant has obtained approval in all the curricular units that are part of the syllabus of the curricular year in which he/she was registred;
b) The average classifications of the curricular units referred to in point (a) have been not inferior to very good (16).

For further information, please contact the ESAP Social Action Office

Dispatch Nº 7761/2017

Notice No. 26/24-25 – Awarding of DGES Merit Scholarships 2023/2024

Provisional List of Results – DGES Merit Scholarship Award 2023/2024

Final List of Results – DGES Merit Scholarship Award 2023/2024

Scholarships - Porto de Conhecimento

The City Council of Porto has signed with the CESAP/ESAP a collaboration agreement to award “Porto Conhecimento Scholarships”.

The ‘Porto de Conhecimento’ program aims to support the pursuit of studies by young people in a situation of economic fragility, in one of the private higher education institutions that are partners of the Municipality of Porto in the ‘Porto de Conhecimento’ program, thus promoting the training and qualification of young potential and their settlement in the territory, as a strategy for renewing the social fabric.

The support granted by CESAP/ESAP is as follows:

1. full exemption from the payment of:
– Application, registration and enrolment fees for the 1st year of the degree and subsequent years until completion;
– Exam registration fees until completion of the degree.

2. 30% exemption from the payment of tuition fees for 3 candidates.

Deadline for applications: until August 17, 2025

More info: https://www.cm-porto.pt/destaque/bolsas-de-estudo-porto-de-conhecimento

Internships (Architecture)

Only in Portuguese
INTERNSHIPS FELLOWSHIPS (ARCHITECTURE)

Os titulares de grau licenciado ou de mestre que no período de 24 meses após a obtenção do grau, se encontrem a realizar estágio profissional para o exercício de uma profissão, poderão candidatar-se a bolsa de estudo, nos 20 dias subsequentes à emissão de comprovativo de início de estágio por parte da entidade promotora – artigo 28º n.1 alínea c) do RABEEES.
(artigo 11º que remete para o artigo 46ºB aditado ao decreto lei nº 74/2006, de 24 de março, pelo decreto lei nº 107/2008, de 25 de junho)

PRAZOS PARA CANDIDATURA

Entre o dia 25 de junho de 2023 e o dia 30 de setembro de 2023;

Nos 20 dias úteis subsequentes à inscrição, quando esta ocorra após 30 de setembro;

Nos 20 dias úteis subsequentes à emissão de comprovativo de início de estágio por parte da entidade promotora no caso de licenciados ou mestres que estejam a realizar estágio profissional;

Ocorrendo a inscrição antes de 30 de setembro de 2023 o estudante dispõe sempre de um prazo de 20 dias úteis para submeter o requerimento, mesmo que esse prazo ultrapasse o dia 30 de setembro;

A candidatura pode ainda ser submetida entre 1 de outubro de 2023 e 31 de maio de 2024, sendo que, nesse caso, o valor da bolsa de estudo a atribuir é proporcional ao valor calculado nos termos do presente regulamento, considerando o período que medeia entre o mês seguinte ao da submissão do requerimento e o fim do período lectivo ou do estágio.

PROCEDIMENTOS PARA 2023/2024

A Bolsa de Estudo destina-se a todos os estudantes que estejam a frequentar o ensino superior.

Todos os candidatos que possuam as credenciais de acesso (Bolsa da Acção Social), mesmo que não tenham estado inscritos no ano letivo 2022/2023 ou anteriores, podem efectuar a renovação da candidatura na página pessoal.

Os novos candidatos, que não possuam as credenciais de acesso ou tenham frequentado o Ensino Superior, mas nunca tenham concorrido à bolsa, deverão dirigir-se ao Gabinete de Acção Social da Escola Superior Artística do Porto – ESAP, munidos do Cartão de Cidadão, para efetuarem o pré-registo – receberão as credenciais de acesso, que lhes permitirá preencher e submeter a candidatura para o presente ano letivo.

Os candidatos que tenham solicitado a bolsa de estudo através do Concurso Nacional de Acesso ao Ensino Superior (público), quer no corrente ano letivo quer em anos letivos anteriores, deverão dirigir-se ao Gabinete de Acção Social da ESAP para solicitar a transferência do requerimento de bolsa de estudo, do ensino superior público para o ensino superior privado.

Para mais informação dirigir-se ao Gabinete de Acção Social da ESAP.

SCHEDULE

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CONTACTS

Soledade Almeida
Phone. 22 33 92 130
Email: sas@esap.pt

The purpose of the ESAP’s Social Action Office is to ensure that no student is excluded from higher education due to financial incapacity.

The main function of ESAP’s Social Action Office is to ensure the management and functionality of the support provided to students in the framework of School Social Action.