The Eu­ro­pean Project Se­mes­ter (EPS) is a one-semester pro­gramme of­fered by 19 uni­ver­si­ties from 12 European coun­tries to stu­dents who have com­pleted at least two years of study. The concept EPS was created in Denmark by Prof. Arvid Andersen in 1995 with en­gi­neer­ing stu­dents in mind, but other stu­dents who can par­tic­i­pate in an en­gi­neer­ing project are also welcome. It is crafted to ad­dress the de­sign re­quire­ments of the de­gree and pre­pare en­gi­neer­ing stu­dents with all the nec­es­sary skills to face the chal­lenges of today’s world econ­omy. EPS is a mix­ture of “Project Re­lated Courses” and project organized/problem-based learn­ing. Stu­dents work in in­ter­na­tional and usu­ally in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary teams of 3–6 stu­dents on their projects, and most of the projects are interdisciplinary. Some projects are done in co­op­er­a­tion with com­mer­cial busi­nesses and in­dus­tries, other projects are more aca­d­e­mic. Stu­dents learn to learn and to take re­spon­s­ibil­ity for their learn­ing and their project work and they de­velop their in­ter-­cul­tural com­pe­tences, their com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills and their interpersonal skills. For + info: Eu­ro­pean Project Se­mes­ter Providers

The Eu­ro­pean Project Se­mes­ter at ISEP (EPS@ISEP) is a 30 European Credit Transfer Units (ECTU) programme in English offered by Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) to international 3rd and 4th year (or higher level) engineering, product design and business students. The programme comprises the following modules:

Project (20 ECTU);

Team Building & Project Management (2 ECTU);

Marketing & Communication (2 ECTU);

Ethics & Deontology (2 ECTU);

Energy & Sustainable Development (2 ECTU);

Portuguese (2 ECTU).

It is a project-based learning offer with an emphasis on teamwork, involving groups of students from different scientific backgrounds and cultures, to solve real-world multidisciplinary problems.