Summary
8 September | Welcome Session for New Undergraduate Students 2025/2026 | IEP Welcome
10 September | Tribute Conference in Honor of Ernâni Lopes
11 September | IEP Volunteering Action 2025 for New Students
15 September | Welcome Session for New Master’s & Doctoral Students
Summary
Autumn Semester
SEPTEMBER 2025
08 September
Beginning of classes for the 1st term of the Autumn Semester (Undergraduate – 1st Cycle)
Welcome Session for New Undergraduate Students (10h00)
Welcome Session for New Erasmus Students (14h30)
Garden Party for Undergraduate and Erasmus Students (15h30)
10 September
Tribute Conference in Honor of Prof. Ernâni Lopes (18h00)
11 September
Fellows’ Meeting (13h00)
Volunteering Activity with Cáritas Diocesana de Lisboa (15h00–18h00)
15 September
Beginning of classes for the 1st term of the Autumn Semester (Master’s & Doctoral – 2nd & 3rd Cycles)
Welcome Session for New Master’s and Doctoral Students (17h30)
25 September
IEP Scientific Council Meeting (13h00–15h00)
OCTOBER 2025
02 October
Faculty Meeting – All Cycles (13h00–14h30)
05 October
National Holiday
08–09 October
Elections for the IEP Pedagogical Committee
10 October
Make-up Class Day (Undergraduate, Master’s & Doctoral)
Mass of the Holy Spirit
21 October
End of classes for the 1st term (Undergraduate)
Solemn Opening Ceremony of the Academic Year 2025/2026
22 October – 04 November
Mid-term Assessment Period (Undergraduate)
23 October
CIEP Integrated Researchers’ Meeting (13h00–14h30)
24 October
End of classes for the 1st term (Master’s & Doctoral)
24–25 October
International Seminar (Prof. Paul Flather)
27–31 October
Assessment Period for the 1st term (Master’s & Doctoral)
NOVEMBER 2025
01 November
National Holiday
03 November
Beginning of classes for the 2nd term of the Autumn Semester (Master’s & Doctoral)
05 November
Beginning of classes for the 2nd term of the Autumn Semester (Undergraduate)
06 November
Fellows’ Meeting (13h00)
07 November
XXIII Alexis de Tocqueville Lecture – Graduation Ceremony
12 November
Pedagogical Committee Meeting (Undergraduate – 1st Cycle) (13h00)
13 November
Pedagogical Committee Meeting (Master’s & Doctoral – 2nd & 3rd Cycles) (13h00)
21 November
Career Day
28 November
Make-up Class Day (Undergraduate, Master’s & Doctoral)
28–29 November
International Seminar (Prof. Brandon Silver)
DECEMBER 2025
01 December
National Holiday
04 December
Fellows’ Meeting (13h00)
05 December
IEP Security Summit
08 December
National Holiday
10 December
Pedagogical Council Meeting (13h00)
Christmas Mass (12h00)
12 December
Special Day – Monday Schedule (Undergraduate)
16 December
IEP Christmas Dinner (19h30)
16–18 December | Course Enrolments for the Spring Semester
16–18 December | Final Exam Registration (Undergraduate finalists)
18 December
IEP Christmas Tea (17h00)
19 December
Last Day of Classes – Autumn Semester (Undergraduate, Master’s & Doctoral)
18–19 December
Assessment of Undergraduate Courses within the ERASMUS+ Programme
20 December – 01 January
Christmas Break
What happened at IEP:
04 to 6 june
Estoril Political Forum - Summer Course
10 june
National Holiday
09 to 27 june
2nd Spring Semester Assessment Period (1st, 2nd and 3rd Cycles)
13 june
Municipal Holiday
18 june
Exam - Estoril Political Forum Summer Course (1st Cycle)
Submission date for Estoril Political Forum Summer Course essays (2nd and 3rd cycles)
19 june
National Holiday
30 june to 4 july
Spring Semester Exam Period (1st Cycle)
Master's and Doctoral Thesis Defences
2 june
Doctoral Thesis Defence
Title: Anatomia da Revolução Brasileira: Um Estudo sobre o 15 de novembro de 1889
Candidate: Bruno Garshagen
Venue Decobrimentos Portugueses, 14h30
9 june
Doctoral Thesis Project Defence
Title: Valem o Que Valem… As Sondagens Pré-eleitorais em Portugal: O Caso das Legislativas de 2022
Candidate: João Homem Cristo António
Venue D. Henrique, O Navegador - 16h30
17 june
Master's Dissertation Defence
Title: AI Regulations in the European Union: Safeguarding Human Rights in the
Digital Universe
Candidate: Sónia Sofia Derkatch
Venue 133 - 11h00
26 june
Doctoral Thesis Project Defence
Title: Colorblind Oppression: How the mainstreaming of ‘Critical Race Theory’ has successfully challenged the liberal project of ‘racial integration’
Candidate: Ana Cristina Soares de Vasconcelos Fernandes Cavallieri
Venue D. Henrique, O Navegador - 11h00
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9 to 10 may
International Seminars: Utopia and Dystopia in Politics and Movies
with Gabriel Calzada
16 may
IEP Colloquia
“Sovereignty, Borders and Conflict. Tensions in a Changing World”
Programme here»
22 may
Conferrence "A União Europeia e o Atlântico" with José Manuel Durão Barroso and presentation of the new MA in the EU and the Atlantic, by Sónia Ribeiro. The The conference was chaired by Mónica Dias.
23 may
Webminar IEP-Eurodefense "A Europa e a Defesa das Fronteiras"
23 - 24 may
International Seminar "Russia's War against Ukraine: Rethinking basic concepts in IR" with Prof. Nicola Tenzer
Access the interviews given by Prof. here. Nicolas Tenzer
"Relação transatlântica está em péssimas condições. Trump virou as costas à Europa", in TSF
“Os americanos e os europeus foram extraordinariamente hipócritas com a Ucrânia”, in Diário Notícias
“Desde Hitler que ninguém investia tanto quanto Putin na destruição dos valores europeus. Devíamos compará-los mais vezes”, in Expresso online
26 may
Presentation session of the new MA in Public Policy, with Inês Gregório and Miguel Morgado
Our main objective is to create lasting relationships through support for integration into the labour market, mentoring, collaboration between alumni, and through the organisation of academic, cultural, social and recreational activities. We are convinced that this path will contribute to the IEP being recognised as an institution of excellence and to the quality of its students.
LRead the full message form the IEP Alumni Club President, Henrique Burnay
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