Organic unit dedicated to teaching and research in the areas of communication, the arts and information technologies.

The School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies (ECATI) presents itself as an innovative university project in the Portuguese panorama and in the European space of university education. It is aimed at the development of training at all levels of higher education, degrees, masters and doctorates, and for which it has recognized diplomas in a wide area of already consolidated knowledge and new disciplines. Fully organized according to the rules of the Bologna Treaty, ECATI is a pioneering organic unit in Portugal, articulating studies in:

• Communication and Humanities;
• Architecture, Arts and Design;
• Multimedia, Cinema and Video;
• Computer engineering and information systems.

ECATI's highly articulated, rigorous and integrated training strategy creates the necessary and indispensable conditions for students to creatively respond to the challenges arising from the information and knowledge society. The growing trend towards globalization advises against the artificial separation of technological and professional training, training in the various branches of communication sciences, as well as training in arts and design, training in information systems and architecture, with the ultimate objective of creation of a set of unique synergies in the national context. At the center of its objectives is to provide students with skills that allow them to be autonomous and create new knowledge, having shown up until now as a place of great entrepreneurship.

To fulfill its objectives, ECATI has a team of highly qualified teachers in permanent training, as well as three Research Centers accredited by the Foundation for Science and Technology: Cic.Digital/CICANT, Copelabs and LEAU, which cover the various scientific areas of their training. The School also has three scientific journals, Kaleidoscope: Journal of Communication and Culture, Kino - international journal of film and media arts and Revista de Lusófona de Arquitectura e Educação.