The Diploma Supplement (DS), recommended by the Bologna Declaration, becomes one of the main tools to facilitate the mobility and employability of graduates. The aim of the DS is to provide enough data free from any value-judgements to promote the international transparency and a fair academic and professional recognition of qualifications (diplomas, degrees, certificates, etc). The DS was designed to be a flexible non-prescriptive tool providing a thorough description of the nature, level, context, content and status of the studies that were successfully completed by the individual named on the original diploma or certificate to which the Supplement is appended.
The University of Minho, recognizing the importance and added value of this tool in increasing the global competitiveness of its graduates, was the first Portuguese Higher Education Institution to issue the Diploma Supplement . Therefore all University of Minho’s 1st and 2nd cycle graduates receive automatically and free of charge the Diploma Supplement, in Portuguese and in English, together with the corresponding diplomas.
It is important to note that UMinho is the only Portuguese university, at the moment, which the Diploma Supplement is accredited by the European Commission, being 1 of the 28 European institutions who have been awarded the Diploma Supplement Label.
All exchange periods carried out abroad under the various international mobility initiatives offered to UM students are properly safeguarded and formally recognized in the Diploma Supplement. For more information visit
http://www.saum.uminho.pt or contact
SRI.
