About Us
A Message from the President
José dos Santos Costa
MANAGEMENT BOARD
João Vinhas
VICE-PRESIDENT
He holds a PhD in Education Sciences from the University of Évora, a Master’s degree in Applied Physics from the University of Aveiro and a degree in Physics from the University of Coimbra.
He has been President of the ESTGV, from 2019 to till date, having also held the position of Vice-President there, between 2011-2019. He has also been a member of the Representatives Assembly since 2019 and of the Scientific-Technical Council, since 2012.
Helena Vala
VICE-PRESIDENT
At the Instituto Politécnico’s Escola Superior Agrária, she has held several management positions: she served as Department Director, from 2000 to 2009; she was Vice-President of the Board of Directors, from 2003 to 2006; President of the Scientific Council, from 2009 to 2013 and President of the Representatives Assembly, from 2012 to 2018.
João Paulo Balula
VICE-PRESIDENT
He holds a PhD in Didactics from the University of Aveiro, a Master’s degree in Classical Literatures, from the University of Coimbra and a degree in Humanities and Educational Training, from Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
He was Vice-President of ESEV, from 2009 to 2016, and has been its President since 2016.
It values the activity of its teachers, researchers and non-teaching staff, stimulates the intellectual and professional training of its students and provides the best possible conditions for all duly qualified citizens to have access to higher education and lifelong learning.
It fosters an actual mobility of students and graduates, both nationally and internationally. It has both the right and the duty to take active part in activities that will strengthen its ties with society, namely those that seek the dissemination and transfer of knowledge, and the economic valuation of scientific knowledge. Another of its obligations is to contribute to the public awareness of humanities, arts, science and technology, by promoting and organizing actions meant to support the dissemination of humanistic, artistic, scientific and technological culture, and by providing the resources required to achieve these purposes.