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Instituto Superior Técnico
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Instituto Superior Técnico

📍 Avenida Rovisco Pais 1, Lisboa, 1049-001🏗 1911-05-23🏛 Included in protected site

Instituto Superior Técnico—known locally simply as Técnico—is the University of Lisbon’s engineering and technology school, and its origin sits in the education reforms that followed the 1910 implantation of the Portuguese Republic. A decree approved on 23 May 1911 and published in the Diário do Governo splits the Lisbon Commercial and Industrial Institute (IICL) into two institutions: the Instituto Superior do Comércio and the Instituto Superior Técnico. The first director was Alfredo Bensaúde, who led Técnico from 1911 to 1920. In 1930, the school was integrated into the Technical University of Lisbon, which later became part of the University of Lisbon. Today, Técnico runs three campuses across the Lisbon metropolitan area: Alameda, Taguspark in Oeiras, and the Tecnológico e Nuclear campus in Loures, organized into 11 departments supported by laboratories. …

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