The University of Coimbra will hold next Friday, the 4th, the first of three welcome sessions for students from mobility programs entering the institution in the first semester of 2026/27. Provisional figures indicate that more than 1,500 students from programs such as Erasmus are arriving at UC, representing a 9% increase compared to the 1,343 from the same period the previous year and the highest value ever recorded at this time of year.
The main event takes place at 2:30 PM at the Auditorium of the Central Unit of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, at Pólo II. On this occasion, MEP Marta Temido and the Consul-General of Portugal in San Francisco, Filipe Ramalheira, will be invested as UC Alumni Ambassadors. The following sessions are scheduled for the 14th and 16th of September, with the participation of the Vice-Rector for External Relations and Alumni, João Nuno Calvão da Silva.
With application phases still ongoing, the number of submissions received has already reached 1,695, 8% more than in the same period the previous year. The officials anticipate that UC should surpass last year's record, when it received 2,231 incoming mobility students.
