Academic life

ISCTE-IUL Spirit 

ISCTE-IUL provides its students with a great environment to learn as well as opportunities to relax and take a break from your studies. As well as the auditoriums and classrooms where you will take your classes we have many private and group study rooms which can be reserved. The campus also houses five  café/bars, two restaurants and many spaces to relax in. Wi-Fi internet is available, to ISCTE-IUL students, throughout the campus.

Student's Association

Library

How are we evaluated?/Given our grades?

Class Schedule

Exam Schedules

Students' Association 

The ISCTE’s Students Association «Associação de Estudantes do ISCTE – AEISCTE» is an autonomous organization held by the students of ISCTE. It’s mission is to socially and culturally complement the students academic life while they are with the ISCTE.
In the Association headquarters, located in the ISCTE main building, you will be able to find information about events held not only in Lisbon, but also in other cities of Portugal. There, you can also find leaflets about concerts, performing arts and movie festivals that take place in Lisbon, and much more…
There is a students’ counselling office which could provide some help for any individual problem, not only concerning the student life but also the private life too.

To be a member of AEISCTE, all you have to do it is apply. Afterwards you will receive the Membership Card. The enrolment costs 5 euro, and you need to hand over 2 pictures of yours.

With this Membership Card you have access to many discounts, like: Medical clinics – about 10%-20% of discount, Language Schools – depends on the school discount is 10%-50%, Renting a Car, Gyms – 50% of discount in inscription and 10% of discount of monthly payment, Danka – Discount in the copy canter at ISCTE University, Dancing classes, All event that takes part at ISCTE, like parties

Library

ISCTE-IUL Library is one of the largest university’s library with about 56.000 books. It receives approximately 17.000 periodicals (digital and paper). Our library specializes in Management and the Social and Technological Sciences. Students benefit from every service imaginable in a full-service bibliographic facility. In addition, PhD students have access to dedicated areas that include individual workstations and meeting rooms.

There are approximately 40 thousand titles and 2.200 journals in paper or in digital format.There’s also the possibility of access to the Financial Lab, with its vast array of financially-oriented databases - Bloomberg, Reuters Xtra/ Knowledge, Datastream, Worldscope, Compustat (North America), Eventus, CRSP, Thomson One Banker and WRDS.

Remote access to excellent research systems such as B-On (more than 16.000 scientific magazines available), ABI/Inform Global, Proquest, Web of Knowledge and JSTOR.

You can find it on the 4th floor of the new building. It is open from Monday to Friday, from 9:30am to 9:30 pm. You can take 3 books home but you must pay attention to the obligatory delivery period. A database created by the Library Services can be consulted locally or online.

How are we evaluated?/Given our grades?

In ISCTE, there are two types of evaluation, continuous and exam only. Each module will have a different type of structure of each, but below is a description of each and its components:

Avaliação Contínua / Continuous

This is the most recommendable type of evaluation. It relies on a combination of the following components;

• Class attendance 
• Class participation
• Group Projects &/OR Individual Projects
• Tests (Final &/OR Periodic)
• Presentations (Group OR Individual) 
• Assignments 

Some lecturers will advise students that have low grades on the Continuous evaluation method to pass onto the Final Exam. This is because students that have Continuous evaluation are able to improve their grades by going to the the 2nd calling of exams, whereas Exam students are able to go to the two exam callings.

Avaliação Periódica/ Final Exam

This type of evaluation relies almost entirely on the exams at the end of each semester. Students find that it's a lot harder than all of the tests taken in the continuous evaluation. It may  have the following components as well as the exam itself:

• Group project OR Individual project - which sometimes has a Presentation component

For this reason, even if you chose the Final Exam evaluation, it is ESSENTIAL that you talk to the lecturer and find out how the evaluation is structured and the due dates of any assignment that they might need from you. 

Class Schedule

As an Erasmus student, your classes might have been chosen modules from different courses and different classes. For this reason, it is important that you contact the International Relations Office to ask them about the schedule of your particular modules, if you have not recieved this information already.

However, there is also another way to find out; if you know from which course and year your modules are, then it is possible to find out through the site horarios.iscte-iul.pt.
In this site, you will have to find the class and year and from there will be able to find the room and time of your modules.

Exam, Test and Assignment Schedules

Students that are taking the Continuous Evaluation will receive the due dates of their assignments and the dates of their exams and tests directly from their professor, and may ask him/her at any time when they are given, provided they have already been scheduled.

In most cases, a Class email will exist, and students may ask a colleague to access it.

There is also a site which gives all the Exam schedules.

Information taken from http://ibs.iscte.pt/en/?pt=prospective-students
 Information taken from: http://www.iscte-iul.pt/en/internacional/Study_at_ISCTE-IUL/practical_information.aspx