ISTEC
Education
ISTEC, as a higher education institution, polytechnic in nature, which teaches courses exclusively in the area of information technologies, has as its mission:
- To contribute to improve the technological potential of the country's human resources;
- To provide a higher education level aimed to the pursuit of a profession in the areas of computer science and multimedia;
- To stimulate intellectual and professional training, as well as the mobility of students and graduates, both at a national and international level, namely within Europe;
- To contribute to render services to the community, mainly through the development of projects, on a partnership basis, in the area of information technologies;
- To implement, in departments set up for this purpose, applied research practices;
- To promote and institutionalize measures for a permanent integration of graduates into professional life;
- To create, maintain and promote a permanent and preferential relationship with the business and social fabric, at a national level and within its geographic area’s sphere of influence;
- To participate in international mobility programmes, preferably in the area of learning;
- To promote and contribute to training activities for teachers, researchers and staff.
To ensure the constant update of the syllabus contents and enrich the range of learning resources made available to students, namely through the use of educational multimedia and communication systems and online pedagogical interaction, aiming to increase the overall quality of the education provided and foster new ways of pedagogical interaction that, by optimizing the learning times of fundamental knowledge and aptitudes, favour and stimulate the students' initiative in order to create an education system based on skills development.
- To contribute to improve the technological potential of the country's human resources;
- To provide a higher education level aimed to the pursuit of a profession in the areas of computer science and multimedia;
- To stimulate intellectual and professional training, as well as the mobility of students and graduates, both at a national and international level, namely within Europe;
- To contribute to render services to the community, mainly through the development of projects, on a partnership basis, in the area of information technologies;
- To implement, in departments set up for this purpose, applied research practices;
- To promote and institutionalize measures for a permanent integration of graduates into professional life;
- To create, maintain and promote a permanent and preferential relationship with the business and social fabric, at a national level and within its geographic area’s sphere of influence;
- To participate in international mobility programmes, preferably in the area of learning;
- To promote and contribute to training activities for teachers, researchers and staff.
To ensure the constant update of the syllabus contents and enrich the range of learning resources made available to students, namely through the use of educational multimedia and communication systems and online pedagogical interaction, aiming to increase the overall quality of the education provided and foster new ways of pedagogical interaction that, by optimizing the learning times of fundamental knowledge and aptitudes, favour and stimulate the students' initiative in order to create an education system based on skills development.
