The School Social Action Service has the mission of attributing social benefits and incentives to the training of students, through the application of the social action regulation and the regulation of scholarships and merit scholarships, and the management of the protocols established with various entities , so that no student is excluded from higher education due to financial incapacity.
Main Social Support:
- Reduction of tuition fees, fees and other benefits under the Regulation of the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa
- DGES Scholarships – General Directorate of Higher Education
- Merit Scholarship
- Resume Program
- Financing of tuition fees under the Agreement with Santander Universities
Table of Social Benefits and other tuition fee reductions approved by the instituting Entity of the Autonomous University for the academic year 2017/2018:
Other social benefits:
Reduction of Tuition Fees to economically disadvantaged students, provided that they have previously applied for DGES scholarships, and have not been covered, to students from the PALOPS and to students whose socio-economic situation changes throughout the school year.
Application deadlines:
Students from the PALOPS
- 15 days after the act of registration
Others:
(students who applied for the DGES scholarship and did not receive support)
- 15 days after publication of the result
Table applied by UAL's SASE:
Per Capita Income and respective reduction:
- Lower than IAS 50% (€421.32) – Unclarified economic situation
- from 50% to 75% of the IAS (€421.32) – 20%
- from 75% to the limit of IAS – 10%
Scholarships:
For more information, contact UAL's SASE or consult the UAL's website. DGES
The General Directorate of Higher Education provides a simulator to determine the value of the scholarship that you may enjoy. Click here to access.
The current version of the simulator does not allow the assessment of specific conditions associated with the following situations:
- Professional internships;
- Students enrolled on a part-time basis;
- Students with student worker status;
- Students who have changed course;
- Exceptional situations provided for in the legislation in force;
- Households with business and professional income resulting from organized accounting, declared in Annex C of the IRS declaration;
- Households with capital income resulting from holdings in private limited companies;
- Students enrolled in the thesis, dissertation, project or internship of the course;
- Single-person households with income below six times the social support index in force;
- The simulator also does not allow evaluating the attribution of complements.
Procedures for 2017/2018:
All candidates who have access credentials (user code and password), even if they have not been enrolled in the previous or previous academic year, can renew their application on the personal page of the DGES.
New candidates, who do not have access credentials (have attended Higher Education, but have never applied for the scholarship), should go to UAL's GAS, and bring their BI and NIF, or Citizen Card. , or Permanent Residence Permit, or in the case of candidates of Brazilian Nationality, the Equality Statute, to pre-register – receive access credentials (user code and password) that allow them to complete and subsequently submit the application online for the present school year.
Candidates entering Higher Education for the 1st time (1st Year) may request access credentials (user code and password) after their enrollment/enrollment at the Autonomous University.
Resume program:
The resume program is a measure that forms part of the National Plan for the Implementation of a Youth Guarantee, approved by the Resolution of the Council of Ministers No. 104/2013, of December 31.
The resume program has as main objectives:
- Allow the return to education and training, in the context of higher education, of students who wish to complement previously initiated training or undertake different training, namely by encouraging the return of FORMER STUDENTS who abandoned the study cycle before its conclusion;
- Combat school dropout in higher education, bearing in mind social utility criteria of employability;
- Promoting higher qualifications for young people who are neither working nor involved in education or training.
Merit Scholarships:
Merit scholarships are awarded by public and private educational establishments to exceptionally successful students, regardless of their income, in accordance with the Rules for Awarding Merit Scholarships to Students of Higher Education Institutions.
Within the scope of the Merit Scholarship Award to Students from Higher Education Institutions, published in Order nº 13531/2009, of 9 June, the students awarded in accordance with article 5 of the above-mentioned Order's regulation gathered the conditions of exceptional use in the academic year 2012/2013.
See here the list of students who obtained merit scholarship in previous years.
Financing:
Under the existing protocol with Santander Universities, the Autónoma branch has a set of products designed with UAL students in mind. Consult the financing conditions.
See here Merit Scholarships awarded in the 2011/2012 Academic Year.