ISLA Polytechnic Institute of Management and Technology

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ISLA - Polytechnic Institute of Management and Technology in Vila Nova de Gaia has just celebrated its silver anniversary. With 25 years of existence, it started its activity in 1989 and has been able to draw on the accumulated experience, an image of quality in the area of Higher Education in Portugal.
The public image of ISLA is without doubt the one of credibility and trust. We have so...cial and financial sustainability. We have each time more consistent training supply and quality, truly suited to the market needs, providing an expanding range of opportunities at all levels, based on strong bond of cooperation with national and international businesses and higher education institutions.
What we are now is based on a past full of contributions and creativity of those who have worked here and made ISLA Gaia grow.
We are sure that we are on the right track for the full affirmation of ISLA, which is a time consuming process that has to be undergone safely in a constant adaptation to the changes that are being imposed by the government and by the guidelines of the European Union. The adaptation to the Bologna Process is a clear example of this.
Waiting anxiously for the cited date of 2025, the one that symbolized and is the institution"s expectations milestone, ISLA-Gaia faces the complex reality of having to prepare itself for a more challenging external environment in the coming years.
We can only be proud of the extraordinary progress that we have achieved in the relatively turbulent environment that the Portuguese higher education has been experiencing over the last years.
Guiding us through this ambitious vision, this is the best way to ensure that our institution will be amongst the best, enhancing in all of us proud to belong to ISLA. In this sense, with the contribution of all and with great propects for success, ISLA will continue its vision for 2025.
In response to these challenges, ISLA Gaia adopted the ISLA-Gaia Plan 2025 - a Strategic Plan for its reconstruction and repositioning as a as a higher education institution of national prestige.
Based on the experience and on the example of similar institutions of reference, this ambitious plan seeks to maximize the main competitive advantages of ISLA-Gaia, as well as taking advantage of partnerships in whch it will integrate.
The Polytechnic Institute of Management and Technology"s objectives (ISLA Gaia) are Stimulating cultural creation and scientific and entrepreneurial spririt development, as well as reflective thinking. Training graduates in different fields of knowledge, qualified to integrate in the various professionals sectors. Participating in the development of society and contributing to their continuing education. Encouraging research and scientific research aimed at the development of science and technology, humanities and arts, and the creation and dissemination of culture and developing the understanding of integration of man with the environment. Promoting the spread of cultural, scientific and technical knowledge, which constitutes the heritage of humanity and communicating knowledge through teaching, publications or other forms of communication. Encouraging the desire for constant cultural and professional development, integrating the skills that are being acquired in an intellectual framework and systematizing knowledge of each generation, in education throughout life and generational and inter-generational investment, aiming to perform the formation process; Diario da Republica, 2nd Series on October 2009. Encouraging knowledge of the world"s problems, from a global perspective, in particular regional, national and European, providing specialized services to the community and establishing a reciprocal relationship. Establishing cooperation with national and international companies and organizations, making employability and participation in research and development projects of its students and graduates easier. Promoting association or cooperation agreements with public or private, domestic or foreign educational and research institutions, through network integration, encouraging students", graduates" and teachers" mobility and establishing common partnerships and projects, including joint degrees or facility or equipment program sharing. Continuing cultural and vocational training of citizens for the promotion of appropriate cultural extension forms. Encouraging artistic, cultural and scientific activities, promoting practical spaces and supporting the development of extracurricular skills, both on a collective and social participation. Supporting student associations, providing the necessary conditions for the affirmation of autonomous associations setting up in accordance with the legislation in use. Promoting and valuing Portguese language and culture by encouraging relations with portuguese-speaking countries. Promoting critical thinking and freedom of expression and research.
Consequently oriented to the offer of solid scientific training, through the articulation of studying, teaching, research and experimental development, the education aims at the creation, transmission and dissemination of culture, knowledge, science and technology.