University of Aveiro

University of Aveiro is a Portuguese new generation public university, headquartered in Aveiro since its 1973 creation. The University has more than 12,500 students distributed across 58 graduate courses, over 40 MSc courses and 25 PhD programs. It is a leading R&D university, having a large number of active research units developing programmes targeted at both the international business community and at national industries, in fundamental and applied physics, chemistry, telecommunications, robotics, bioinformatics, sea sciences, materials, design, business administration and industrial engineering. Its graduates become researchers or work for new companies and established ones, such as Portugal Telecom, EFACEC, Nokia Siemens Networks, Cisco Systems, Alcatel, Ericsson, Vodafone, BOSCH and NEC.