EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

In addition to their academic experience, FCUP students have access to a range of extracurricular activities designed to enrich them both individually and professionally.

The University of Porto offers all students a wide range of activities, such as the ones here described.

UP Volunteering

The aim is to stimulate the academic community, especially students, to engage in social responsibility activities to promote the common good and greater social justice, on a free, generous and completely voluntary basis.

Volunteering at U. Porto requires both host entities and volunteers to assume this undertaking in accordance with the principles followed by the University of Porto.

G.A.S.Porto

GASPorto is an NGO established in April OF 2002 that develops volunteer projects in Porto in partnership with 18 social institutions, working with children, institutionalized young people, isolated older people, people with learning disabilities, people without shelter and teenage mothers. This NGO also works in Mozambique and East Timor, developing projects in the areas of education and health.

Currently, GASPorto has about 400 volunteers and reopens its annually registration in September / October.

Debating Society

The Debating Society of the University of Porto (SdDUP) is a non-profit organization, founded and led by UP students, who engage in debates as a means of promoting critical thinking, mutual understanding and love of language, words and ideas.

Its main aim is to stimulate critical faculties, contribute to the improvement of rhetorical skills, to the development of a sense of humour, the ability to improvise, the ability to express opinions and to use oral communication as a means of conveying ideas.

Its approximately 500 members organize debates and related training events, and compete internationally with equivalent debating societies operating at the best universities in the world.