Design for Sustainability

Design for Sustainability

The Master's in Design for Sustainability is a joint iniciative of the Faculdade de Belas-Artes, of the Faculdade de Ciências, of the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, and of the Lisbon School of Economics and Management.

Objectives

The Master's in Design for Sustainability has as general objectives:

  • To provide postgraduate training in design in the context of sustainable development, understood in the transversality of the disciplinary framework of environmental, social, and economic sciences;
  • To promote reflection and debate on specific sustainability issues that allow the design, development, and implementation of projects at the local, regional, and global levels within the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in 2015;
  • To develop design projects in real context and in collaboration with public and private entities, in the scope of environmental, social, and economic sustainability.

    The Master’s degree in Design for Sustainability is granted to students who have obtained 120 ECTS.

    All classes are held in Portuguese. Therefore, it is recommended that students have be independent users of Portuguese (at least B1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

     

    1ST YEAR - 1ST SEMESTER

    Curricular Units ECTS
    Project I in Design for Sustainability 6 ECTS
    Design Thinking 6 ECTS
    Concepts of Economics and Management for Sustainability 6 ECTS
    The 2030 Agenda and the New Sustainable Development Goals 6 ECTS
    Introduction to Environmental Sciences 6 ECTS

     

    1ST YEAR - 2ND SEMESTER

    Curricular Units ECTS
    Project II in Design for Sustainability 6 ECTS
    Research Methods 6 ECTS
    Sustainability, Space, and Society 6 ECTS
    Elective Unit I (FC-ULisboa) 6 ECTS
    Elective Unit II (ISEG-ULisboa) 6 ECTS

     

    2ND YEAR - 1ST SEMESTER

    Curricular Units ECTS
    Seminar 6 ECTS
    Elective Unit III (FA-ULisboa or FBA-ULisboa) 6 ECTS
    Dissertation of Scientific Nature/Project Work/Report of curricular internship of professional nature 18 ECTS

     

    2ND YEAR - 2ND SEMESTER

    Curricular Units ECTS
    Dissertation of Scientific Nature/Project Work/Report of curricular internship of professional nature 30 ECTS

     

    A3ES Accreditation

    Accreditation of New Study Programme (2019)

    Requirements

    The following are admitted as applicants:

    • Holders of a bachelor's degree or legal equivalent;
    • Holders of a foreign academic degree conferred following a 1st cycle of studies organized according to the principles of the Bologna Process by a State adheding to this Process;
    • Holders of a foreign academic degree recognized as meeting the objectives of a bachelor's degree by the Postgraduate Studies Committee of the Faculdade de Belas-Artes;
    • Holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum recognized by the Postgraduate Studies Committee of the Faculdade de Belas-Artes as attesting the capacity to attend this cycle of studies.

    Applications of students on finishing stage of a bachelor's degree in a Portuguese higher education institution are accepted.
    In case of admission in this cycle of studies, the admission is subject to the presentation of the degree certificate, mandatorily until a fixed date.

    Applications

    Applications 2023/2024

    1st Call:

    • Applications: 5th April 2023 to 21st April 2023
    • Results: from 17th May 2023
    • Registration and Enrolment: within 10 days after receiving notificaiton

    2nd Call (only in case of surplus places from the 1st call):

    • Applications: 1st June 2023 to 14th June 2023
    • Results: from 3rd July 2023
    • Registration and Enrolment: within 10 days after receiving notificaiton

    3rd Call (only in case of surplus places from the 2nd call):

    • Applications: 5th July 2023 to 11th July 2023
    • Results: from 21st July 2023
    • Registration and Enrolment: within 10 days after receiving notificaiton

    Applications through the FBAUL FenixEdu platform: https://fenix.belasartes.ulisboa.pt.
    To create a registration, please access https://fenix.belasartes.ulisboa.pt/accountCreation.
    In case you already have a registration, you can recover the access at https://fenix.belasartes.ulisboa.pt/passwordResetRequest.
    In case you already have a student number at FBAUL, you should use your Campus account credentials. You may recover your access to this account at https://utilizador.ulisboa.pt.

    The application fee is € 30 for the 1st call, and € 40 for the following calls.

    Applicants must submit their application with the following documents:

    • Bachelor's certificate or equivalent academic degree (the original must be presented at the Academic Services in case of admission). If the applicant is in the process of concluding a degree at a Portuguese higher education institution, they must, in place of the document proving their academic degree, submit a Declaration, under oath, that they are, in the academic year 2021/2022, in the finishing stage of the degree, with indication of the expected final grade;
    • Transcript of records proving the grades obtained in the curricular units of the degree attended (for students in the final stages of graduation). If they have attended, or attend, a degree at the Faculdade de Belas-Artes of the Universidade de Lisboa, they are exempt from presenting these documents;
    • Academic, scientific or professional curriculum with copies of the documents to which it refers;
    • Letter of application/motivation to attend the programme;
    • If the applicant is not Portuguese, they must submit a declaration, under oath, that they do not have Portuguese nationality nor are they covered by any of the conditions that, according to the International Student Statute, do not grant them the status of International Student (only for students who are covered by the Statute of International Student).

    Admission

    In the selection of applicants, an overall evaluation of their career will be carried out, subject to a classification on a numerical scale of 0 to 20 values, in which the following criteria will be considered:

    • Classification of the academic degree they hold, and in the case of academic degrees obtained in foreign higher education establishments, the classification will be the result of the proportional conversion of the classification obtained to the Portuguese classification scale, when the foreign higher education establishment adopts a scale other than this;
    • Assessment of the academic, scientific, technical and artistic curriculum;
    • Relevant professional experience in the fields of the study cycle.

    Applicants will be ranked according to the score obtained in the evaluation, resulting from the simple arithmetic average of the classifications attributed to each of the selection criteria, with applicants who obtain a score lower than 9.5 being considered excluded from the selection procedure.

    A selection interview may be carried out for applicants, if the programme coordinator deems it necessary, in which case it will become part of the evaluation criteria indicated above, with applicants who do not attend the interview being excluded from the selection procedure.

    Coordinator 
    Coordenador Externo 
    Ana Thudichum Vasconcelos
    Faculdade de Belas-Artes