Candidate Handbook
1. To start your online applications, please log in to http://ff.academicos.ul.pt/cssnetff. For the
online application in English please click “EN” (→).
Then please click “Candidaturas a Mestrados (diploma Estrangeiro) / Application to Master
course (foreign degree)” (Image 1 - ).
Image 1
2. Next, you have to register, creating a username and a password. You have to click on
“Register” (Image 2 - )
Image 2 – Registration
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To continue your registration process, please read and accept the terms and conditions outlined
below (Image 3 - )
Image 3 – Terms and Conditions
3. Insert your data. The Username should not have spaces nor stresses and should be
lowercased. After inserting your data please submit the registration (Image 4 - →)
Image 4 – Create a username and a password
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4. After this step, you will receive a request in the email address you have entered earlier,
asking you to confirm the registration (Image 5).
Image 5 – Registration E-mail
5. After confirming the registration, please click the “link” button (Image 6 - ) to activate your
account.
Image 6 – Confirm registration
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6. You will receive the information that your account was successfully created (Image 7). Your
username and password enable you to make your application.
Image 7 – Username and Password
Useful Tip
If you wish to apply for more than one course, you will have to make as many registrations as
the number of courses you choose. Therefore, you will have one username and one password
for each application process.
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7. After your successful authentication, you must answer to all mandatory questions for each
of the following sections. Please note that questions with an asterisk * are required.
Personal Information Validation
After you have completed all the information please click on “next” (Image 8 - )
Image 8 – Personal Information Validation
Schooling Level: please choose Licenciatura for Bachelor Degree; Mestrado for Master’s degree; Doutoramento for PhD
Identification Type: please choose Autorização de residência for Authorisation for residence; Bilhete de identidade estrangeiro for
Foreign ID card; Passaporte for passport
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8. Choosing the Master Course – Select the course you want to apply for (Image 9 - →) and
then click on “next” (Image 9 - )
Image 9 – Choosing the Master Course
9. Personal Information – Fill in all the personal information. If you do not have a “fiscal
number” (Image 10 - ) please insert the number - 9999999990
Image 10 – Personal information
Marital Status: choose Solteiro for Single; Casado for Married; Viúvo for widower; Divorciado for Divorced; União de Facto for De
facto Marital; Separado judicialmente for legally separated;
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10. Candidate Status and Contacts - For “Residence address” (Image 11 - ) please type
the name of your country (could be in English) and for “Zip Code” (Image 11 - ) please
enter the following zip code - 9999-990. After you have completed all the sections please
click the “next” button (Image 11 - →).
Image 11 – Candidate status and contacts
Employment status and professional: please choose Aluno, estudante for Student; Desconhecida, não tem for Unknown, don't have
one; Desempregado for Unemployed; Doméstico, Outra situação for Stay-at-home or other situation; Reformado for Retired person;
Serviço Militar for Military Service; Trabalha por conta de outrém for Employee; Trabalhador familiar não remunerado for Unpaid family
worker; Trabalhador por conta própria como empregador for Employer; Trabalhador por conta própria como isolado for Lone worker
Current Occupation: Please choose Agricultores e Trabalhadores Qualificados da Agricultura e Pescas for Skilled agricultural,
forestry and fishery workers; Desconhecido, não tem for Unknown, don’t have one; Especialistas das Profissões Intelectuais e
Científicas for Experts in scientific and intellectual occupations; Operadores de instalações e Máquinas e Trabalhadores da Montagem
for Plant and machine operators and assemblers; Operários, Artífices e Trabalhadores Similares for Craft and related trades workers;
Pessoal Administrativo e Similares for Clerical support workers; Pessoal dos Serviços e Vendedores for Service and sales workers;
Quadros Superiores da A.P., Dirigentes e Quadros Superiores de Empresa for Managers; Trabalhadores não Qualificados for
Elementary occupations; Técnicos e Profissionais de Nível Intermédio for Technicians and associate professionals;
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11. Prerequisites (Application Fee) – In this step, it will be shown the application fee, which
bank details for payment will be available after submitting your application. You should just
click on “next” to continue (Image 12 - →)
Image 12 – Prerequisites (application fee)
12. Application Documents – Here, you must upload all mandatory listed documents:
Carta de Motivação
Documento de Identificação Fiscal (NIF)
Letter of Intent
Fiscal Card (if you do not have this document please upload the
identity card or passport)
Fotografia tipo-passe
Photo
Documento de Identificação
Identity Card or Passport
Certificado de Habilitações com disciplinas realizadas e
média de conclusão de curso
Curriculum Vitae máx. 2 folhas A4
Transcript of Records with final classification. The Transcript of
Records should be recognized by the Consulate of Portugal of the
home country of the candidatye or by Apostille of the Hague
Curriculum Vitae (maximum 2 pages)
Documents should be preferably sent in PDF format (the maximum size for each file is 5024Kb).
If the document is composed of several files, it is necessary to group them in a single file, using
a tool such as ZIP.
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To submit the documents you have to choose the document you want to upload.
Click on “Procurar” (Image 13 - ), choose the document and then click on “uplod” (Image 13  ).
After you have uploaded all the required documents, click the “next” button to continue (Image
13 - →).
Image 13 – Documents submission
13. Admission Form – This is the summary of you application. Please check if everything is
correct. If so, click on “Finish” (Image 14 - ).
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Image 14 – Summary of you application
14. Application Summary - Check if everything is correct. If so, you should click “Formalize
Candidacy” (Image 15 - ). If any information is not accurate, make changes needed. Click
on “Change application information” (Image 15 - ):
Image 15 – Formalize Candidacy
Useful Tip
After pressing “Formalize Candidacy” you can access to your application process but you
cannot change any of the information nor documents submitted
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15. At the end of the process, you should download the following PDF documents:
a) Prerequisites Payments –the Faculty of Pharmacy bank details for the payment of the
application fee. Please click “download” (Image 16 - ). This document is visible in the
image 17. If it is an international bank transfer please read carefully the instructions on
image 17 (Image 17 - )
b) Application Proof – Please click “download” (Image 16 - ). This document is can be
seen in the image 18.
Image 16 – Download prerequisites payments and application proof
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Image 17 – Application fee
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Image 18 – Proof of application
Useful Tip
You can access to the portal CSSnet to check the status of your application, which will evolve in
accordance with the following sequential states. In case of any doubt regarding your application
process, please feel free to contact us through [email protected].
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