Faculdade de Ciências (CIENCIAS ULISBOA) is part of the University of Lisbon, the largest and most prestigious Portuguese University, covering a wide range of the key scientific areas of exact and natural sciences and techno-sciences and providing its students with high-quality infrastructures and research environment. It ranks 5th among Latin-American universities, 28th in the SCIMAGO rankings and is among the 150 best Universities in the world according to the latest available QS World University Rankings.
CIENCIAS ULISBOA hosts more than 5000 students, 300 academics and 900 researchers, which are supported by more than 130 teaching laboratories and 180 research laboratories in its 10 departments and 17 research and development units. In 2022, over 1200 scientific papers were published in indexed scientific journals (most of them Q1). CIENCIAS ULISBOA has over 500 national and international research and development projects underway, including 6 ERC grants, 5 Marie Curie and over 50 European Collaborative Grants with an annual competitive funding of around 15 million euros (2023), which together with more than 600 collaboration protocols with Portuguese and foreign institutions, public and private, allows CIENCIAS ULISBOA to train highly qualified professionals.
On top of this, CIENCIAS ULISBOA fulfils its duty regarding knowledge and technology transfer to society through its incubator (Tec Labs), which has hosted 35 Start-Up companies (many of which faculty spin offs). CIENCIAS UL is followed by several thousand people through its social networks. CIENCIAS UL interacts with public and private companies, regulatory and government entities and participates in living labs on several societal challenges. Over 70% of CIENCIAS ULISBOA graduates take less than one year after graduation to find a job in the global market.