Founded in 1977, the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (NOVA FCSH - NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities) is distinguished by a teaching philosophy characterized by the diversity and creativity of knowledge and by the freedom of thought. Located near Lisbon city center, it hosts a total of 5 154 students, 2 693 in undergraduate programmes, 1 583 in masters and 878 in PhD programmes. It has 305 professors, almost all holding a PhD degree.

The excellence of research in Social and Human Sciences, one of the missions of NOVA FCSH, is assured by 16 Research Centres and branches of interuniversity centres. There are 13 UI funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology (FC&T), five of which rated as “Excellent” and seven as “Very Good”.

Currently, the growing academic community at NOVA FCSH has about 1 200 researchers who are integrated and/or associated to a Research Unit, as well as many other co-researchers, students and research grant holders.