University of Aveiro

The University of Aveiro is a public university in the Portuguese city of Aveiro that also provides polytechnic education, created in 1973 and organised into campuses and teaching poles in Aveiro, Águeda and Oliveira de Azeméis, with research concentrated in materials, marine and environmental studies, telecommunications, health and design.阿威罗大学是一所位于葡萄牙阿威罗市的公立大学，同时承担理工教育职能，创办于 1973 年，在阿威罗、阿格达与奥利韦拉迪阿泽梅什设有校区与教学点，研究集中于材料、海洋与环境、电信、健康与设计领域。

It became a public foundation under private law in 2009, runs sixteen departments and four polytechnic schools, and enrols about 16,000 students, roughly twelve per cent of them international, with about 1,800 professors and researchers.该校于 2009 年改制为受私法规范的公立基金会，现设 16 个系与 4 所理工学校，在校学生约 16,000 人，其中约 12% 为国际学生，并拥有约 1,800 名教授与研究人员。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 425th, the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking places it in the 701-800 band, the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranks it 673rd and the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities puts it in the 501-600 band.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列第 425 位；2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名处于 701 至 800 区间；2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名第 673 位；2026 年世界大学学术排名处于 501 至 600 区间。

History

• On 15 December 1973 the Minister of National Education, José Veiga Simão, delivered an inaugural address at the Aveiro Museum, marking the first meeting of the commission that established the university.1973 年 12 月 15 日，时任国民教育部长若泽·韦加·西芒在阿威罗博物馆发表创校演说，标志着筹建委员会的首次会议。

• Teaching and research began in 1974 with the first telecommunications course, which enrolled 46 students.学校的教学与科研活动于 1974 年启动，首个电信课程招收学生 46 名。

• By 1976 there were 338 students and courses in environmental science and education, natural sciences and education, mathematics and education, Portuguese-English, and Portuguese-French.到 1976 年，学校已有 338 名学生，并开设环境科学与教育、自然科学与教育、数学与教育、葡英双语及葡法双语等课程。

• The first buildings were erected in 1976 on the land that later became the Santiago University Campus.首批建筑于 1976 年在后来成为圣地亚哥大学校区的土地上落成。

• In the 1977-1978 academic year the university proposed and created CIFOP, the first integrated centre for teacher training in Portugal, headed by the former vice-rector João Evangelista Loureiro.1977 至 1978 学年，学校倡议并创建了葡萄牙首个综合性教师培训中心 CIFOP，由前副校长若昂·埃万热利斯塔·洛雷罗主持。

• The early licentiate courses at Aveiro covered areas that traditional Portuguese universities had not explored, including environment, materials and telecommunications.阿威罗早期开设的本科课程覆盖传统葡萄牙大学未曾涉足的领域，包括环境、材料与电信。

• During the 1980s the university consolidated, adopting internal regulations and creating its fundamental bodies under the second rector, José Mesquita Rodrigues, while land for the campus was bought.二十世纪八十年代，学校在第二任校长若泽·梅斯基塔·罗德里格斯领导下完成制度化建设，订立内部规章、设立基本机构，并陆续购置校园用地。

• In 1986 a team coordinated by the architect Nuno Portas began selecting among prestigious Portuguese architects to design the Santiago University Campus.1986 年，由建筑师努诺·波尔塔斯协调的团队开始从葡萄牙知名建筑师中遴选人选，以设计圣地亚哥大学校区。

• The campus buildings were designed by architects including Álvaro Siza Vieira, Eduardo Souto Moura, Alcino Soutinho, Gonçalo Byrne and Pedro Ramalho, whose works are studied by specialists every year.校区建筑由阿尔瓦罗·西扎·维埃拉、爱德华多·索托·莫拉、阿尔西诺·索蒂尼奥、贡萨洛·拜尔内与佩德罗·拉马略等建筑师设计，其作品每年都吸引专业人士前来考察。

• The law of 24 September 1988 granted the university autonomy, which allowed its statutes to be homologated in June 1989.1988 年 9 月 24 日颁布的法律赋予大学自治权，学校章程遂于 1989 年 6 月获得批准。

• By the mid-1980s teaching had expanded with innovative courses in environment, industrial management, music, tourism, chemical industry and new technologies, several of them designed to answer the needs of local industry and of the Aveiro region.到二十世纪八十年代中期，学校新增环境、工业管理、音乐、旅游、化学工业与新技术等创新课程，其中多门课程是为回应本地产业与阿威罗地区的需求而设，教学规模随之扩大。

• The 1990s brought a new phase in which priorities were redefined towards internationalisation, European programmes and relations with Portuguese-speaking and Latin countries.二十世纪九十年代，学校进入新阶段，把重点转向国际化、欧洲项目以及与葡语国家和拉丁国家的关系。

• In 1994 an internet search engine, SAPO, was created at the university, one of the earliest such services in Portugal.1994 年，互联网搜索引擎 SAPO 在该校诞生，是葡萄牙最早的一批同类服务之一。

• Since 1998 the university has developed an ecological motor vehicle named Ícaro to travel the greatest distance on the smallest amount of fuel, taking part in the international Shell Eco-marathon.自 1998 年起，学校研制名为「伊卡洛」的环保机动车，力求以最少燃料行驶最远距离，并参加国际壳牌环保马拉松赛。

• Under the fourth rector, Júlio Pedrosa, the student population reached 8,000 and the university held its largest number of internationally recognised programmes.在第四任校长儒利奥·佩德罗萨任内，学生规模达到 8,000 人，学校拥有的国际认可项目数量也达到历史最高。

• In 1997 the Águeda School of Technology and Management was created, and the Aveiro Institute of Accounting and Administration was integrated in 1999.阿格达技术与管理学院于 1997 年创建，阿威罗会计与行政学院则于 1999 年并入。

• The School of Health was set up in 2000, and a polytechnic school in the north of the district, the Aveiro-Norte School, followed later.健康学院于 2000 年成立，随后又在该区北部设立了理工学校——阿威罗北部学院。

• In 2002 and 2003 professional technology programmes started under the sixth rector, Maria Helena Nazaré, and since 2009 the university has hosted a SexLab studying sexual health.在第六任校长玛丽亚·埃莱娜·纳扎雷任内，学校于 2002 至 2003 年开设专业技术项目；自 2009 年起还设有研究性健康的 SexLab。

• In February 2010 Manuel António de Assunção became the seventh rector and served two terms until May 2018, promoting the creation of the Fábrica science centre.2010 年 2 月，曼努埃尔·安东尼奥·德·阿松桑出任第七任校长，连任两届至 2018 年 5 月，并推动创建了「工厂」科学中心。

• Paulo Jorge Ferreira took office as the eighth rector on 8 May 2018, and Artur Manuel Soares da Silva took office as the ninth rector on 20 May 2026.保罗·若热·费雷拉于 2018 年 5 月 8 日出任第八任校长，阿图尔·曼努埃尔·苏亚雷斯·达席尔瓦于 2026 年 5 月 20 日出任第九任校长。

Academics

• The university is organised into sixteen departments and four polytechnic schools.学校由 16 个系与 4 所理工学校组成。

• Those polytechnic schools are the Águeda School of Technology and Management, the Aveiro-Norte School of Design, Management and Production Technologies, the School of Health and the Institute of Accounting and Administration.这四所理工学校分别是阿格达技术与管理学院、阿威罗北部设计管理与生产技术学院、健康学院，以及会计与行政学院。

• It runs twenty research units, eight of them labelled or integrated as Associated Laboratory, covering the natural sciences, engineering, health, design and the social sciences.学校设有 20 个研究单位，其中 8 个被列为或整合为联合实验室，覆盖自然科学、工程、健康、设计与社会科学的领域。

• In the most recent evaluation by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, fourteen research units were classified as Excellent and four as Very Good.在葡萄牙科学技术基金会最近一次评估中，该校有 14 个研究单位被评为「优秀」、4 个被评为「很好」。

• Its Aveiro Institute of Materials, known as CICECO, is one of the largest materials research units in Portugal.其材料研究所 CICECO 是葡萄牙规模最大的材料研究机构之一。

• The Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies works on atmospheric processes, marine and estuarine ecology and coastal zone management.环境与海洋研究中心的研究涵盖大气过程、海洋与河口生态以及海岸带管理。

• Other units include the Institute of Telecommunications, the Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro and the Institute of Biomedicine of Aveiro.其他研究单位还包括电信研究所、阿威罗电子与信息工程研究所以及阿威罗生物医学研究所。

• The Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture and the Institute of Ethnomusicology cover design, digital media and music and dance studies.设计、媒体与文化研究所以及民族音乐学研究所，覆盖设计、数字媒体与音乐舞蹈研究。

• The university offers 58 graduate programmes, 40 master's degrees and 25 doctoral programmes.学校开设 58 个研究生项目、40 个硕士项目与 25 个博士项目。

• Research covers fundamental and applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, telecommunications, robotics, bioinformatics, sea sciences, materials, design, business administration and industrial engineering.其研究覆盖基础与应用数学、物理学、化学、电信、机器人、生物信息学、海洋科学、材料、设计、工商管理与工业工程。

• It serves as a pole for an inter-university doctoral programme together with the universities of Porto and Minho, and takes part in European networks such as the European University Association.该校与波尔图大学、米尼奥大学共同承担一项校际博士项目，并参与欧洲大学协会等欧洲网络。

• In 2015 there were 316 research and technology transfer projects active at the university, eighty of them funded by international and European programmes, including 27 through the 7th Framework Programme, 13 through Horizon 2020 and 17 through Erasmus+.2015 年，学校有 316 个研究与技术转移项目在运行，其中 80 个由国际与欧洲项目资助，包括第七框架计划 27 个、地平线 2020 计划 13 个与伊拉斯谟加计划 17 个。

• Its integrated master's in electronics and telecommunications engineering was the first Portuguese information-technology engineering master accredited by the European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education under the EUR-ACE label.其电子与电信工程本硕连读项目是葡萄牙首个获得欧洲工程教育认证网络 EUR-ACE 认证的信息技术类工程硕士项目。

• The academic community includes about 1,800 professors and researchers and 980 technical, administrative and management staff.学校的学术共同体包括约 1,800 名教授与研究人员，以及 980 名技术、行政与管理类人员。

• More than 16,000 students are enrolled, of whom about twelve per cent come from outside Portugal.在校学生超过 16,000 人，其中约 12% 来自葡萄牙以外。

• The Honoris Causa title was first awarded by the university in 1988 and has since been conferred 45 times on national and international figures.该校自 1988 年首次颁授名誉博士学位，此后已向国内外杰出人士授予 45 次。

• The Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies and the Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies unit study education policy, regional innovation and tourism.高等教育政策研究中心以及治理、竞争力与公共政策研究单位，研究教育政策、区域创新与旅游。

• In 2026 the university strengthened cooperation with Macau University of Science and Technology and hosted the annual meeting of the European Committee on Fire Safety.2026 年，学校加强了与澳门科技大学的合作，并承办了欧洲防火安全委员会的年度会议。

• The Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies and the Aveiro Research Centre of Risks and Sustainability in Construction are among the units that give the university a profile in education policy, construction safety and applied materials.高等教育政策研究中心与阿威罗建筑风险与可持续性研究中心等部门，使学校在教育政策、建筑安全与应用材料方面形成研究特色。

• Courses are taught mainly in Portuguese, and a growing number of master's and doctoral programmes are offered in English to attract international students, with the European Credit Transfer System used for credit recognition.学校课程主要以葡萄牙语授课，同时越来越多的硕士与博士项目以英语开设以吸引国际学生，并采用欧洲学分互认体系进行学分认定。

• The Institute of Telecommunications and the Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro take part in the LASI associate laboratory and cooperate with industry on wireless, optical and embedded systems research.电信研究所与阿威罗电子与信息工程研究所参与 LASI 联合实验室，并在无线、光通信与嵌入式系统研究方面与企业开展合作。

• The University Library, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira, serves the academic community through a documentation and museology service that also covers the polytechnic schools in Águeda and Oliveira de Azeméis.由阿尔瓦罗·西扎·维埃拉设计的大学图书馆通过文献与博物馆服务系统为师生提供服务，其服务范围还覆盖阿格达与奥利韦拉迪阿泽梅什的理工学校。

Campus

• The university has two campuses in Aveiro itself, the Santiago University Campus and the Crasto Campus, together with teaching poles in Águeda and Oliveira de Azeméis.学校在阿威罗本市设有两个校区——圣地亚哥大学校区与克拉斯托校区，并在阿格达与奥利韦拉迪阿泽梅什设有教学点。

• The Santiago Campus occupies a vast area between the lagoon and the city centre, equivalent to about 92 football fields, and is commonly described as a city within a city.圣地亚哥校区占据潟湖与市中心之间的大片区域，面积约相当于 92 个足球场，常被形容为「城中之城」。

• It concentrates teaching and research buildings, central services and cultural, sports and leisure facilities in one place, is surrounded by former salt pans and lies a short walk from the city centre, to which it is linked by footpaths and cycleways along the lagoon.校区把教学科研建筑、中央服务设施以及文化、体育与休闲设施集中在一处，四周是旧盐田；校区沿潟湖设有步行道与自行车道，与市中心相连。

• The campus comprises about 60 buildings designed by leading Portuguese architects, which has made it an open museum of contemporary Portuguese architecture.校区拥有约 60 座由葡萄牙知名建筑师设计的建筑，这使它成为一座当代葡萄牙建筑露天博物馆。

• Two Pritzker Prize winners are represented on the site, with the library and the water deposit by Álvaro Siza Vieira and the Department of Geosciences by Eduardo Souto Moura.校园内可见两位普利兹克奖得主的作品，包括阿尔瓦罗·西扎·维埃拉设计的图书馆与蓄水塔，以及爱德华多·索托·莫拉设计的地球科学系馆。

• Almost two dozen sculptures and murals by national and foreign artists are scattered across the Santiago Campus.圣地亚哥校区内散布着近二十件由国内外艺术家创作的雕塑与壁画。

• The Crasto Campus continues the Santiago Campus and has a complex of student residences, a canteen, the head office of the academic association, the Health building and a synthetic sports field.克拉斯托校区与圣地亚哥校区相连，内有学生宿舍群、食堂、学术协会总部、健康大楼以及人造草坪运动场。

• In the central service area known as the catacombs, students find a bookshop, a post office, a health centre offering free consultations, a bicycle workshop and a study room open 24 hours a day.在被称为「地下墓穴」的中央服务区，学生可以找到书店、邮局、提供免费门诊的医疗中心、自行车工坊以及每天 24 小时开放的自习室。

• The Águeda school occupies several buildings in the city centre, and its refectory complex in a rehabilitated former military building by the architect José Luís Gomes was inaugurated in 2002.阿格达校区的教学设施位于市中心的多座建筑中，其食堂群由建筑师若泽·路易斯·戈梅斯对一座旧军事建筑改造而成，于 2002 年启用。

• Four electric vehicle charging stations were installed across the campuses at the beginning of 2019, part of wider environmental policies covering energy, water, waste treatment and green spaces.2019 年初，各校区共安装了四个电动汽车充电站，这是涵盖能源、用水、废物处理与绿地等方面的整体环境政策的一部分。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the university is placed 425th, the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking places it in the 701-800 band, the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranks it 673rd and the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities puts it in the 501-600 band.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列世界第 425 位；2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名处于 701 至 800 区间；2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名第 673 位；2026 年世界大学学术排名处于 501 至 600 区间，以各榜单官方发布为准。^[1]

• In the Times Higher Education Europe Teaching Rankings the university is placed in the 51-75 band, putting it among the top 100 higher education institutions in Europe for teaching.在泰晤士高等教育欧洲教学排名中，该校处于 51 至 75 区间，跻身欧洲教学水平最高的 100 所高等院校之列。

• In 2026 it was placed among the world's top 300 universities in the UI GreenMetric ranking of sustainable universities, reflecting its environmental policies.2026 年，该校在 UI GreenMetric 可持续大学排名中进入全球前 300，体现出其环境政策成效。

• In the Ranking Web of Universities for 2019 it was listed sixth in Portugal and 482nd in the world.在 2019 年世界大学网络排名中，该校位列葡萄牙第 6、全球第 482。

• In 2012-13 the university was placed in the 351-400 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, its highest position in that league table to date.2012 至 2013 年，该校在泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 351 至 400 区间，是其在同类榜单中取得的最好位次。

• Every research centre at the university that was evaluated by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology was rated excellent or very good.该校接受葡萄牙科学技术基金会评估的全部研究中心，都获得了「优秀」或「很好」的评级。

• Its research output is measured by OpenAlex at 69,459 works attracting 4,213,280 citations, a strong record for a university founded in 1973.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校研究成果为 69,459 项、累计被引 4,213,280 次，对于一所 1973 年创办的大学而言成绩突出。

• In 2026 research at Aveiro led to the development of a drug for hyperkalaemia, and the university joined an 8.7 million euro project on lung cancer screening.2026 年，阿威罗的研究催生了一款治疗高钾血症的药物，学校还参与了一项预算 870 万欧元的肺癌筛查项目。

• Faculty members such as José Carlos Pedro and Nuno Borges de Carvalho have been named Fellows of the IEEE, while the university's materials and telecommunications groups rank among the strongest in Portugal.该校的若泽·卡洛斯·佩德罗与努诺·博尔赫斯·德·卡瓦略等教师当选为 IEEE 会士，其材料与电信研究团队也在葡萄牙位居前列。

• The university states that it aspires to be one of the foremost research organisations in Europe and a leading university in Portugal in terms of research production and impact.该校表示，其目标是成为欧洲最重要的研究机构之一，并在研究产出与影响力方面成为葡萄牙的领先大学。

Student life

• The university has no widely publicised formal motto, and its identity rests instead on its lagoon-side campus and its academic traditions.学校没有广为人知的正式校训，其认同感更多建立在潟湖畔的校园环境与学术传统之上。

• The Academic Association of the University of Aveiro has its head office on the Crasto Campus and runs a shop where students buy the academic costume and its accessories, and it organises the university's traditional academic ceremonies and cultural events.阿威罗大学学术协会总部设在克拉斯托校区，并经营一家商店，学生可在那里购置学位服及附属配饰；协会还负责组织学校的传统学术典礼与文化节庆。

• In mid-spring a one-week break from formal studies allows students to take part in academic activities, concerts and the Enterro do Ano parade.仲春时学校会放一周假期，学生可在此期间参加学术活动、音乐会以及名为「送别旧岁」的游行。

• The university regularly takes part in and organises inter-university robotics competitions, Micro-Rato for hardware and Cyber-Rato for behavioural software.学校经常参与并组织校际机器人竞赛，包括面向硬件设计的 Micro-Rato 与面向行为软件的 Cyber-Rato。

• In 2008 one of its teams won the RoboCup world competition held in China, and the university also runs mathematics competitions aimed mainly at pre-university students.2008 年，该校一支队伍在中国举行的机器人大赛 RoboCup 世界赛中夺冠；学校还举办主要面向中学阶段的数学竞赛。

• The university hosts 3810-UA, a weekly national public television programme.学校承办每周播出的全国公共电视节目 3810-UA。

• Student life is concentrated on the Santiago Campus, which offers residences, canteens and bars, a sports pavilion, an athletics track and libraries, alongside sports courses open to students.学生生活集中在圣地亚哥校区，那里有宿舍、食堂与酒吧、体育馆、田径场与图书馆，并向学生开放各类体育课程。

• In 2026 the university organised the Festivais de Outono festival of music in dialogue with other arts, and launched the SER+ app to encourage student participation and recognise skills.2026 年，学校举办以音乐与其他艺术对话为主题的「秋季艺术节」，并推出 SER+ 应用，以鼓励学生参与并认可其技能。

• The university health centre offers free consultations to all members of the academic community, and a bicycle space helps students and staff maintain and repair their bicycles with self-service tools.学校医疗中心向学术共同体全体成员提供免费门诊，自行车服务站则以自助工具帮助学生与教职工维护和修理自行车。

Notable people

• José Veiga Simão, the Minister of National Education who delivered the inaugural address in 1973, is regarded as a founding figure of the university.1973 年发表创校演说的时任国民教育部长若泽·韦加·西芒，被视为该校的创始人物。

• João Evangelista Loureiro, a former vice-rector, headed the CIFOP project that created Portugal's first integrated centre for teacher training.前副校长若昂·埃万热利斯塔·洛雷罗主持了 CIFOP 项目，创建了葡萄牙首个综合性教师培训中心。

• José Mesquita Rodrigues, the second rector, oversaw the consolidation of the university during the 1980s.第二任校长若泽·梅斯基塔·罗德里格斯主持了学校在二十世纪八十年代的制度化建设。

• Renato Araújo, a later rector, completed the purchase of the land on which the Santiago Campus was built.其后一任校长雷纳托·阿劳若完成了圣地亚哥校区建设用地的购置。

• Júlio Pedrosa, the fourth rector, led the university when the student body reached 8,000 and serves as one of its most cited former leaders.第四任校长儒利奥·佩德罗萨领导学校期间学生规模达到 8,000 人，是被提及最多的历任校长之一。

• Maria Helena Nazaré, the sixth rector, launched the university's professional technology programmes in 2002 and 2003.第六任校长玛丽亚·埃莱娜·纳扎雷于 2002 与 2003 年推出学校的专业技术项目。

• Miguel Viegas, an economist, is a Member of the European Parliament and an alumnus of the university.经济学家米格尔·维埃加斯是欧洲议会议员，也是该校校友。

• José Carlos Pedro and Nuno Borges de Carvalho, both named IEEE Fellows, are professors at the university.若泽·卡洛斯·佩德罗与努诺·博尔赫斯·德·卡瓦略均当选 IEEE 会士，并任教于该校。

• Miguel Monteiro, a Paralympic bronze medallist and former world record holder in the shot put, is an alumnus.残奥会铜牌得主、铅球项目前世界纪录保持者米格尔·蒙泰罗是该校校友。

• Antero Ferreira, a key figure in the transformation of the online luxury platform Farfetch into a global business, is listed among its alumni.奢侈品电商平台 Farfetch 成长为全球企业的关键人物安特罗·费雷拉，被列为该校校友。