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The Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - FCSH) is an organic unity of NOVA University of Lisbon (UNL) and a legal person under public law, endowed with scientific, pedagogical, administrative and financial autonomy, whose public service mission is to qualify citizens at the highest level. According to its statutes, “the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA University of Lisbon is an institution dedicated to education, scientific research and cultural creation" [1]. The Faculty's own identity stems from the coexistence of social sciences with the humanities, allowing an unusual interdisciplinarity in the Portuguese higher education panorama.

General description

The FCSH main building is inspired from the image of an open book

FCSH was established in January 1977 by Decree-Law No. 464/77, following the development of the area of Human and Social Sciences then existing in UNL and led by a group of faculty members and researchers, namely by J. S. da Silva Dias, Leonor Buescu, João Morais Barbosa, Artur Nobre de Gusmão, Fernando Gil, Augusto Mesquitela Lima, A.H. de Oliveira Marques, José Augusto França, Vitorino Magalhães Godinho, José Mattoso, Raquel Soeiro de Brito, Teolinda Gersão, Leonor Machado de Sousa, Yvete Kace Centeno and Teresa Rita Lopes. The Faculty began its activity on the 2nd of January of 1978.

The FCSH is located in Berna Avenue, in the centre of Lisbon, next to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and enjoys very good access to public transport. Based on barracks that belonged to military forces, the Faculty’s facilities are divided by [1] B1 and B2 buildings (classrooms and departments), Tower A (classrooms and head office of the Languages Institute of NOVA University of Lisbon - ILNOVA]), Tower B (departments, and library Mário Sottomayor Cardia), boards of management, administrative services, canteen, Students Association and, since 2009, the ID building (Research and PhD degrees). This building, known as the former DRM (District Military Recruitment), has recently undergone a major change in order to be adapted to the objectives that it has been assigned for. In ID we find the core of the administrative support to PhD degrees, the research units associated with FCSH and classrooms for the PhD’s programmes.

In addition to teaching areas (classrooms, lecture halls and auditoriums), the FCSH also holds some socializing places, a printing room and a large courtyard. To solve logistical issues created by recent growth, new facilities are planned for the FCSH Detailed Plan of the Campolide Campus, where other units of the NOVA University of Lisbon (UNL) are already installed, the Faculty of Economics (FE), the Faculty of Law (FD) and Institute of Statistics and Information Management (ISEGI). The Rectorade of NOVA and the University residence Alfredo de Sousa are also located in the Campolide Campus.

Faculty Structure

The Faculty Structure, according to the RJIES [2], has the following bodies:

  • Faculty Council
  • Dean
  • Scientific Council
  • Pedagogic Council
  • Student Council


  1. ^ Diário da República Portuguesa, series II, No. 128, 4/6/1990
  2. ^ Article 8, II Chapter of the Despacho Reitoral No. 3849/2009
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