If you are experiencing personal, emotional, social, academic, or professional difficulties, the Student Support is available to assist you. The type of support will be tailored to your needs and the type of help you are looking for.

Requests for individual support should be made using this form.

Educational support

Educational support aims to empower students to realise their academic potential by promoting effective study habits, acquiring and consolidating learning methods and techniques tailored to their individual needs, and strengthening self-confidence, self-regulation and academic self-concept, contributing to a more autonomous, consistent and successful educational path.

Career guidance

Support for exploring and building a career plan in line with your skills, aptitudes, interests and personal values, while promoting psychological well-being and a more informed, conscious and adapted transition to the job market. This includes support in writing your CV, cover letter and preparing for interviews.

If you are struggling with one or more course units. If you have already tried to complete the course unit(s) and have not been successful. If you feel you need additional support, then the StudyGroups Programme may be the right answer to your needs.

StudyGroups Programme

The StudyGroups Programme aims to address academic failure through supervised study sessions for students experiencing academic difficulties, particularly those in the 1st and 2nd cycles of study, including international and exchange students.

The Programme is based on peer collaboration dynamics, valuing the human person and promoting bonds of solidarity, responsibility and knowledge sharing. It involves students with good academic performance in certain CU(s), who are available to support and facilitate the educational process of colleagues who express learning difficulties in those same CU(s).

Are you a student at the Oeiras Campus and want to support other students in improving their academic performance through supervised study sessions? Sign up as a tutor here.

Tutors

Who can be a tutor?

• Second and third-year undergraduate students or second-cycle students can apply;
• Students who can prove they have a final grade of 15 or higher in the course unit(s) they wish to support;
• Students who have been selected through an interview to join the programme.

Benefits associated with the role of tutor

• By participating in the programme, tutors will have access to a Training Programme, which aims to develop various cross-cutting skills, with particular emphasis on supporting more vulnerable students and those with SEN;
• Tutors may have their participation in the StudyGroups Programme recognised through a Certificate of Participation and Diploma Supplement;
• Hours of participation are counted and can be added to other activities for the purposes of AEC I or AEC II credit.

Tutees

Who can be a tutee

• Tutees are students who are attending the 1st cycle of studies at Instituto Superior Técnico for the first time and who voluntarily decide to enrol as tutees;
• Tutees may be invited to join the Programme by decision of the Programme coordination team.

Benefits associated with the role of tutee

• Attend at least 1.5 hours per week, for a total of at least 10 hours per semester of supervised study.

Requirements for participation as a tutee

• Fill in the registration form, indicating the course unit in which you wish to receive support.

A maximum number of tutees per StudyGroup may be defined, with priority given to students with the lowest grades in the course unit in question.

StudyGroups Programme Regulations