Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas

Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas (CRUP), The Portuguese National Rectors' Conference, formally created by Decree Law nº 107/97, was reorganized by Decree Law nº 283/93 and is composed of the rectors of the Portuguese Public Universities plus the Catholic University of Portugal.

The competences of CRUP are:

• to assure the coordination and representation of the universities that compose the conference, securing their autonomy;
• to cooperate in the definition of the national policy of education, science and culture;
• to give advice
  • about legislative projects that concern the public university education;
  • about budgetary questions concerning public university education;
  • about the creation, integration, modification or suspension of public university institutions;
• to contribute to the development of education, research and culture, and to the promotion of the functions of the universities and their agents; also to improve the relations with foreign institutions of similar character.

For more details see the page in English at http://www.crue.org/eurec/member/pt.html

Members

1. Universidade de Coimbra
2. Universidade de Lisboa
3. Universidade do Porto
4. Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
5. Universidade Nova de Lisboa
6. Universidade de Aveiro
7. Universidade do Minho
8. Universidade de Évora
9. Universidade dos Açores (Azores)
10. Universidade do Algarve
11. Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
12. Universidade de Beira Interior
13. Universidade de Madeira (Madeira)
14. Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University)
15. Universidade Católica Portuguesa
16. Universidade de Macau (Macao)