Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP) has as establisher institution the Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Artístico do Porto (CESAP), a public utility entity, non-profit, formed in May 1982 and legalized by deed published in the Official Portuguese Republic Diary No. 202, Series III, 1 September 1982, with operating authorization granted by the order 129/mec/86 of June 28.
The ESAP location in the historic centre of Porto city - a world heritage site - represents a strategic choice. This has stimulated a continuing involvement in the urban environment in which it occurs, whether through exercise equated curriculum to meet specific needs, or even by request of the institutions and local authorities. Also as a result of scientific and educational work developed under the conditions described, the students of ESAP have been honoured with several awards and mentions in national and international level through their participation in various competitions. Such success is a source of pride and encouragement in order to continue this project for school, since it confirms the validity of the objectives and teaching methods pursued.
ESAP is a school associated with the UNESCO and develops several bilateral agreements with Universities from Europe and Latin America, international mobility of teachers, students and staff.
The diversity of the existing areas of activity and knowledge enables a teaching practice in which the interaction and intersection between the Courses taught in ESAP constitute a characteristic resultant of Escola Superior Artística do Porto Project.
The quality of its teaching staff and the training system, the personalised support in the formation process - information, the link between school - surroundings, constantly expanding, makes ESAP a prestigious institution, where it makes sense to study and prepare for the demands of today and tomorrow.
ESAP has reached that which is meant to be a sustainable size for the development of its areas of artistic training and has currently approximately seven hundred and eighty students, one hundred thirty teachers and thirty-one employees. ESAP farms, thus, a relational environment, open, plural and creative.
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Escola Superior Artística do Porto is an institution of higher university education whose primary vocation is to train rigorously with scientific and pedagogical awareness, future players in different artistic areas in Portugal.
With nearly thirty years of teaching experience, ESAP is assumed as a reference in Portugal in general and in the northern region in particular, in the training of architects, filmmakers, Television Professionals, Photographers, Animators and Cultural Managers, Actors, Designers and Fine Arts Artists.
In addition to a rigorous technical and artistic training in different areas of knowledge, teaching in the ESAP is guided by a great creative freedom and entrepreneurship, always with the concern that the necessary educational and scientific requirements do not constrain one of the most fruitful heritages of human being: his creativity and his natural aptitude for artistic production.
To the student joining ESAP, we promise accuracy and quality in training, but also a great creative freedom and monitoring the production and promotion of their artistic works through extra-curricular events such as exhibitions in various galleries and other spaces of the city, an international festival of film schools, a school theatre festival, an international photography, among other events.
Assuming our universal vocation, we have deepened in recent years the internationalization of ESAP with new Erasmus bilateral agreements with several European universities and cooperative agreements with other universities, namely Brazil, strengthening the bonds of institutional cooperation and providing our students with experiences with other pedagogies and other forms of arts education that have been extraordinarily important in the development of their academic and artistic skills.
We will be pleased to welcome the new students for different courses of study that ESAP offers.
We promise dedication, attention, thoroughness and exigency. Just so, it is possible to make a quality education and form future generations.
ESAP’s Academic Board Director
M. F. Costa e Silva, Dr.
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