FAP - Federação Académica do Porto
Federação Académica do Porto

FAP – for a priority in education

The Federação Académica do Porto (FAP) was founded in 1989, emerging as a representative party for the biggest Academy in the country. With FAP’s creation, a new phase in the evolution of the associative movement begins: FAP assumes itself as a coordinating body of the student’s movement, creating the means for the connection of the various associations.

Porto’s associative movement has increased, has created dynamic effects and has led to a constant associative interaction and defined in an extremely positive way to improve the quality of the Higher Education and of the Society.
This institution, with 24 years of existence, consists of 27 associations, representing and defending the interests of its students, which are more than 60 000.

Operating in three specific areas (academic, political and social), FAP represents the existing four Higher Education subsystems in Portugal: Public Universitary, Public Polytechnic, Private Education and Cooperative and Concordat Education.