Latest news and stories about integration in education in Portugal for expats and residents.
The municipality of Vila Nova de Poiares in the Coimbra district is launching a new Portuguese language course for foreign residents. Starting in September, the program is designed to help English-speaking expats improve their language skills and support their integration into the local community.
The National Education Council highlights that access to Portuguese as a Non-Native Language is insufficient, while the Council of Portuguese Communities prepares to discuss educational and electoral reforms with the government.
Portuguese should come first. Internationalising should not mean erasing what we already have.
The rector of the University of Coimbra (UC), Amílcar Falcão, appealed today for deviant behaviours, including racism, xenophobia, and antisemitism, to be removed from the academy, and reiterated the importance of defending freedom.
On World Teachers' Day, marked this Monday, RTP shares the story of a teacher with over 30 years of experience.
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A teacher recounts their initial confusion upon arriving in Portugal when students asked about writing the 'sumário' (a specific term used in Portuguese schools for the daily lesson log) on the blackboard.
The course focuses primarily on teaching functional Portuguese applied to everyday life. The first edition will run from October 14 to March 15, 2027, and will have a total duration of 75 hours.
A school in Póvoa de Varzim has been considered a success in the integration of students.
An Aver-o-Mar school, in Póvoa de Varzim, is considered a success story in student integration.
Immigration, with integration, enriches the countries where it settles.
The University of Évora has opened a local migrant integration support centre to assist the foreign community attending the institution.
The university rector specified that, of the approximately 10,000 students at the University of Évora, nearly 650 are international students, “of whom about 600 are from outside the European Union”.
The educational project is “not a sum of projects, nor isolated initiatives”, but “organised into five pillars: caring, thinking, creating, participating and qualifying”, according to the councillor for Education.
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We cannot continue to demand pedagogical miracles while allowing for family lack of accountability and formal ignorance.
The University of Coimbra is part of a new European initiative that provides a free resource to assist in teaching the Portuguese language to migrant and refugee populations.
The guide was published as part of the Communikite project, which includes the University of Coimbra. It provides a catalogue of non-verbal language and testimonies from other migrants.
Document presents practical activities to promote linguistic and cultural inclusion.
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16 of the projects are located in the Greater Lisbon and West regions. The initiatives include mobile units, digital platforms, and professional training programs.
The “Babel Classroom” platform allows teachers to lecture normally in Portuguese, while their speech is automatically transcribed and translated in real-time into up to four languages.
The 1990 Orthographic Agreement returns, and will return, just as poorly resolved problems always do. They tried to convince us that the matter was closed. It is not.
More than 100 projects have been submitted to the first edition of the “Friends of Brazil” competition, organised by the Consulate-General of Brazil in Lisbon. As entries require at least two students, over 200 pupils are involved in this initiative aimed at integration and combating xenophobia. The entries include 31 essays, 14 videos, and 62 drawings, with the highest participation coming from students in grades 5 to 8 across various Portuguese municipalities. A jury will select the winners by May 25th, evaluating criteria such as creativity, knowledge of Brazil, and the promotion of friendship and interculturality between Brazil and Portugal. Winning groups will receive cash prizes, and the three teachers with the most registered groups will win a trip to Brazil.
The retired professor, former Portuguese ambassador to UNESCO and former presidential candidate, considers there to be a “serious problem” in the sciences where the English language overrides other languages. He also points to a challenge: learning Portuguese as a means of integrating immigrants.
The number of immigrants seeking Portuguese language courses in Portugal is rising, helping to facilitate their social and professional integration.
Enrolments in PLA courses—certified at the end with a diploma that serves as proof for nationality application purposes—increased from 22,014 in 2020/2021 to 56,397 in 2025 in Portugal.
Over a weekend, students swapped screens for silence. In the third edition of the Offline Weekend, all participants were foreign students. Portuguese students hesitate when it comes to signing up.
The registration deadline for the 'Friends of Brazil' competition has been extended to 8 May following requests from schools in Portugal. The initiative, promoted by the Consulate-General of Brazil in Lisbon in partnership with the Guimarães Rosa Institute and the Brazilian Embassy, is open to students from the 5th to 12th grade living in the country. The competition encourages reflection on the friendship between Brazil and Portugal, as well as themes of interculturality and integration. Groups of two to five students, including at least two different nationalities, can submit entries in categories such as handwritten essays, videos, or drawings and paintings. Prizes can reach €500 per group, and teachers from schools with high participation rates are eligible to win a trip to Brazil.
The consulate has pushed back the deadline for entries to the Amigos e Amigas do Brasil competition to 8 May.
