Overview
The complementary training course aims to equip trainees with a set of skills that will enable them to autonomously carry out the activity of land registry technician through the performance of work relating to the collection and processing of data that characterise and identify each of the properties existing in national territory, and to the amendment, updating or rectification of data that characterise and identify registered properties (Article 3, paragraph 1 of Ministerial Order 380/2015, of 23 October).

Objectives

  • To build capacity for the analysis and application of current legal regulations, both within the framework of spatial planning and urbanism, and within the framework of property and registration law.
  • To interpret and understand spatial planning instruments.
  • To review/update basic concepts of geodesy, reference systems and cartographic projections.
  • To review/update notions of cartography, interpretation and analysis of topographic maps.
  • To review/update knowledge enabling the execution of topographic surveys (classical methods and positioning techniques).
  • To build capacity for the handling of various types of topographic equipment.
  • To build capacity for the analysis, manipulation and processing of geographic information in digital format.
  • To introduce the concepts and functionalities of the SNIC.
  • To build capacity for the design, modelling and integration of data in the context of a land registry execution operation

 

Operating Mode

The course will run from 7 September 2026 to 30 January 2027. Schedule: 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm. The course includes assessment.

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This course, which is part of the "UAlg+Skills4All" project, takes place within the framework of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP). More information here.

Tuition and Fees 2026/2027

National applicants: €480
International applicants*: €800
Application fee: €50
Enrolment fee and school insurance: €150
 

Note: The tuition fee for this course may be paid in 10 instalments, the first upon enrolment and the remaining ones in October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May and June. * In accordance with Decree-Law No. 36/2014, as amended by Decree-Law No. 62/2018, of 6 August, international students are considered to be nationals of a state that is not a member of the European Union and who have not been legally residing in Portugal for more than two years, uninterruptedly, as of 1 January of the year in which they wish to enter higher education.