Porto Design Factory is established in P.PORTO to advance knowledge and nurture leaders and innovators to anticipate, serve or solve societal and economic needs, through an integrated interdisciplinary education program, focused on developing the skills required by an ever-changing world and determined to co-create new knowledge and innovation with societal stakeholders.Porto Design Factory is part of the Design Factory Global Network (DFGN).

PORTO GLOBAL HUB is part of P.PORTO operating in the creating of conditions for innovation in education models, promoting entrepreneurship and being the interface of the academic and business worlds through new knowledge transfer and business services with value creation and social impact.

The mission of Students Welfare Services is to carry out school social action policies with the aim of ensuring equity in access to higher education, especially to students with financial difficulties, as well as to provide students with quality services that contribute to their academic success. To carry out its mission, P.PORTO favours close monitoring of students needs in its various areas of action: scholarships, emergency assistance, food, accommodation, healthcare services, psychology and social counselling, cultural knowledge, sports, among other services that characterise an active social policy.

P.PORTO is excellence in higher education, but is also a space of ideas and results in which we make a difference. We are a dynamo of cultural change, in our city, in our region, in our country. We try to meet current demands, building bridges between the academia, the world of work and civil society. We rank fourth among first-choice higher education institutions, and fifth in number of students.