► PRESENTATION AND MISSION
The Healthy Lifestyles Academy (HeLiCA) is a joint effort between several institutions (national and international) and is designed to contribute to sustainable living in the midst of an ecosystem crisis. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 is an example of how relevant today is the shift from our traditional perspectives in the adoption of a new ethos and praxis in relation to the human experience. Analyzing risks, Reducing risks and Assuring risks is an undertaking for the whole of society and for all governance bodies. But more than this risk perspective is needed. Promoting health and proactively engaging the resilient individual is the sustainable perspective that needs to be unleashed. In this sense, one health perspectives, including health promotion, become extremely important for future health actions and policies. Although recognized today as a priority issue on the agenda, sustainable lifestyles need different reflection in the era of globalization. From the point of view of lifestyle impact, incipient and contradictory approaches today fill a wide spectrum of opinions. A comprehensive and integrative approach is lacking, as most of the time this discussion is anchored in the field of disease, without proper research and validation of knowledge about the creation of health. Today, these questions are amplified by the information society, and ideas originated by one person can resonate almost instantly across the digital world, reaching vast numbers of consumers or prosumers in the blink of an eye. Consequently, health promotion and health education in the context of public health is the place to nurture the dual scientific approach to lifestyles and health! With “Lifestyles, health literacy and sustainability: from theory to practice!” The aim of HeliCA is therefore to explore in this course the “Mitigation, Preparedness and Recovery of Risk towards a Resilient Humanity”.
Information about the HEalthy LIfestyles & Health Literacy Chair Academy(HeLiCA) can be found online here.
The programme is the result of a consortium involving several institutions (national and international), designated HEalthy LIfestyles & Health Literacy Chair Academy (HeLiCA), designed to contribute to a sustainable life in the midst of an ecosystem crisis, and consisting of 13 courses, corresponding to 60 ECTS. The predominant scientific area for the course is Health, CNAEF classification 720, and Social and Behavioral Sciences, CNAEF classification 310.
► Eligibility criteria
Candidates with bachelor’s degree, licentiate degree or legal equivalent in the areas of knowledge that integrate health, social sciences, social protection, education, humanities and related areas.
► OPERATION
The programme is scheduled to start on October 3rd, 2022, and to end on June
2023, two semesters long, and lessons will be taught in English, at Mondays and Tuesdays from 16:00 to 22:00, in a distance and/or blended-learning configuration, in accordance with the School Calendar to be approved by the President of the ESTeSC, and published prior to the beginning of the courses.
► Applications
Admitted candidates must register (only online) at https://inforestudante.ipc.pt.
► Jury
President: Luís Ângelo Saboga Nunes (Programme Coordinator)
Member: Ana Paula Monteiro Amaral (Programme Coordinator)
Member: Hélder José da Silva Simões
► The deadlines are as follows
– Application: until September 12th, 2022;
– Posting of the admission list and the provisional ranking list: until September 19th, 2022;
– Complaints: until September 20th, 2022;
– Decision on complaints/final ranking list: until September 26th, 2022;
– Enrolment and registration (only online): September 28th and 29th, 2022.
► The following fees are due:
Application fee: €75
Registration fee: €75
Tuition: €1500.00 (Payment in 10 instalments of €150.00)
► RESULTS
Provisional serial lists and final lists approved by the IPC are made available through the academic management computer platform (NONIO – https://inforestudante.ipc.pt/), accessible to candidates through the application area.
► Enrolment and registration
Enrollment and registrationt are carried out exclusively online through the academic management computer platform (NONIO – https://inforestudante.ipc.pt/).
►Important information
Call of the 1st edition of the competition for access to the Post-graduate Course in Lifestyles, Literacy for Health & Sustainability (to be made available soon)