MOBILITY AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OFFICE - GMCI
Office Description
The Mobility and International Cooperation Office (GMCI) is the responsible for the treatment of all issues relating to national and international mobility and cooperation of the Institute and its schools.
The GMCI - IPVC is a support, coordination, and promotion structure of all initiatives to internationalize both the theoretical and practical research, particularly in the context of cooperation and academic mobility.
Functions
- Promote, support and implement all the initiatives that foster mobility and international cooperation, exchange actions and international cooperation within the framework of internationalization of education / cooperation and academic mobility;
- Find, collect and process information on programs and initiatives for cooperation and academic mobility, their credit lines and application procedures;
- Establish contacts with national and international organizations in the same area of action;
- Promote, support, implement and monitor the mobility of national and International students, teachers and non teaching staff;
- Establish with its other services contacts and necessary collaboration for the prosecution of their skills;
- Play the role of informer and link with universities, companies and international partner networks;
- Strengthen existing partnerships and encourage the establishment of new cooperation agreements with institutions of higher education in the European Union.
- Monitoring equivalences at education level, degrees, academic quality and recognition between the European institutions;
- Organization of international activities that contribute to the enlargement of the IPVC image internationally.
Among its main objectives are to strengthen existing partnerships and establish new cooperation agreements with institutions of higher education in the European Union, aiming in the coming years for its extension to other continents.
INSTITUTIONAL COORDINATOR FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Prof. Ana Paula Vale – Vice-President
MOBILITY AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OFFICE
Elsa Coelho
Sónia Simas
internacional@ipvc.pt
Open Hours:
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 2:30 to 4:30 pm
Tel: +351 258 809 610
Fax: +351 258 829 065
E-mail: internacional@ipvc.pt
Address:
International Office- GMCI
Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo - IPVC
Rua Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun’Álvares, n.º 34
4900-347 Viana do Castelo • PORTUGAL
