New Ph.D. Students

Registration and enrolment are completed through the Fénix academic management system:

• CIÊNCIAS student with a valid account

  • Before starting your registration and enrolment process, you should ensure that your CIÊNCIAS student account is active and verify that you can access Fénix without any issues

  • To complete your registration and enrolment, you must log in to https://fenix.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/ using your CIÊNCIAS student account credentials and password.
     

• New students

  • Before starting your registration and enrolment process, you will receive an email and a text message (SMS), sent to the email address and mobile phone number provided in your application, containing the login details for your CIÊNCIAS student account and instructions on how to set your password

  • Using the information and instructions provided, you should log in to https://fenix.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/ with your CIÊNCIAS student account credentials and password, and verify that you can access Fénix without any issues

  • To complete your registration and enrolment, you must log in to https://fenix.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/ using your CIÊNCIAS student account credentials and password

  • For more information, please read the Registration and Enrolment Guide.

Registrations:

• The registration fee includes student insurance

• Failure to comply with the registration and enrolment deadlines will result in the cancellation of the admission acceptance

• Students who completed their previous degree outside CIÊNCIAS must compulsorily present the original Certificates and Diplomas to the General Office of the Academic Unit before the registration and enrolment dates (Building C5, Level 3, Ticket C) - please refer to the service opening hours

• Information regarding the registration and enrolment process is provided exclusively by email.

Tuition fees:

• Access to registration and enrolment is subject to the payment of any overdue tuition fees

• At the time of registration and enrolment, students must pay their tuition fees according to the payment option selected (either full payment upon registration or payment by instalments)

• The 1st tuition fee instalment must be paid on the day you complete your online registration and enrolment, by the payment due date indicated on the multibanco payment reference. After this date, you will be regarded as having an ongoing tuition fee debt

• To pay the 1st tuition fee instalment, you should access the menus “Pessoal” - “Serviços” - “Conta Corrente” - click on “Referências para Pagamento” and use the generated multibanco payment references to make the payment. Please note: each student is assigned their own payment references, which are linked exclusively to their account. If you use another student's references, you will be paying that student's tuition fees

• Applicants who have applied for the award of a doctoral scholarship must submit a declaration issued by the funding body confirming the award of the scholarship and its start date

• Students who fail to pay their tuition fee instalments by the established due dates may settle the overdue amount together with interest charged at the applicable statutory rate, in accordance with the relevant legal provisions, namely Article 44 of the General Tax Law. Such interest shall accrue from the due date of each overdue instalment.

Registration certificates for the following purposes (optional):

• Proof of Registration/Enrolment Certificate – available in Fénix in your Personal Area – “Serviços - Requerimentos - Passo Final de Inscrição” (see details), available from the date of registration and enrolment.

Requests:

• Application for Part-Time Student Status – request through Fénix under "Pessoal - Serviços – Requerimentos (“Criar”) – Inscrição em Regime Geral a Tempo Parcial"

• Requests (various matters) – submit your request through Fénix under "Pessoal - Serviços - Requerimentos (“Criar”) - Requerimentos Diversos 3º ciclo (Doutoramentos)”.

Your student card must be requested through the Fénix platform once the enrolment process has been completed. The card may or may not include banking facilities, in accordance with the agreement established with Caixa Geral de Depósitos.

Academic Unit:

• Information on registrations: doutoramentos@ciencias.ulisboa.pt