Higher School of Education of Paula Frassinetti (ESEPF)

Formed in October 22, 1963, Higher School of Education Paula Frassinetti (ESEPF) has already trained thousands of education professionals (teachers, social educators, and other educational agents) through bachelor, masters, post-graduate and ongoing training. The institution is known for its quality teachers that add human proximity to academic excellence. As a higher education institution, it favors the pedagogic practices in professional context and it has protocols with more than eighty (80) institutions (Schools, IPSS, Municipalities and others) in the Greater Porto area. In its activity, it implicates teachers and students in projects and international networks of scientific investigation and socio-educational intervention. The international level is a constitutive part of the ESEPF’s dimension, for it integrates the educational network of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Dorothy, which runs educational centers in Europe, Africa and North and South America. There are, in total, 50 educational centers, with more then 4 500 teachers and almost 7 000 collaborators for around 48 000 students. Besides the ESEPF, two other higher education institutions are also part of this educational network, both operating in Brazil – the Frassinetti Faculty of Recife and the Saint Dorothy Philosophy Faculty, in Nova Friburgo.