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 ECTU programme in English offered by 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 emphasis on teamwork, involving groups of students from different majors and cultures, to solve real-world multidisciplinary problems.

EPS@ISEP, which was launched in 2010/2011, is currently on its 12th edition!