Recognition in Portugal of foreign academic degrees and diplomas of higher education

Nuno Albuquerque & Mariana Boçon | N-Advogados

Sometimes for a foreign citizen to be able to exercise certain professional activities, obtain other academic degrees or have access to public support for research, it is necessary to proceed to the recognition of the diploma awarded by foreign higher education institutions.

In the case of Portugal, the recognition of academic degrees and diplomas of higher education, awarded by foreign higher education institutions, has been regulated since January 1, 2019, by Decree-Law no. 66/2018, which standardized the procedures for the recognition, making them more automatic, transparent, equitable and simple.

This procedure allows to assign to a foreign academic degree of higher education all the rights inherent to the ownership of the corresponding Portuguese academic degree.