In June 2018, a strategic partnership was established between Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA) and Lancaster University when a delegation from Lancaster travelled to Lisbon to sign a Memorandum of Understanding between our institutions (see here).
NOVA and Lancaster are young institutions who have rapidly risen through the international university rankings. Lancaster was founded in 1964 and NOVA in 1973.
NOVA University Lisbon is ranked 15th best European University in the QS World University Rankings “Top 50 Under 50” and ranked in the Times Higher Education “Top 100 under 50”.
Lancaster is ranked 131 out of more than 1,000 institutions in the 2019 QS World University Rankings. Lancaster University is also the Times and Sunday Times University of the Year 2018 and is in the top ten in all major national league tables. Lancaster is also ranked 17 in the Times Higher Education (THE) Golden Age University Rankings 2018. The Golden Age University Rankings cover universities established in the two decades between 1945 and 1967.
Lancaster has historic ties to Portugal. In 1986, the President of Portugal, Mário Soares, received an Honorary Doctorate from Lancaster University. The occasion served to celebrate 600 years of the Treaty of Windsor between England and Portugal, the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world still in existence.
For more information or to get involved, please email Patrick Rebuschat(p.rebuschat@lancaster.ac.uk) or João Amaro de Matos (jam@unl.pt).