Diploma Supplement

The Diploma Supplement is a standardised document (defined by the Directorate General for Higher Education (DGES) in accordance with Note#1) and supplementary to the degree certificate – the diploma or completion certificate, and it aims to promote:

1. information transparency between institutions, thus facilitating mobility;
2. national and international employability, thus facilitating the academic and professional recognition of the qualifications that were obtained.

The Diploma Supplement is merely informative, it is not a substitute for the diploma and does not constitute by itself a proof that someone holds the degree to which it refers Furthermore, Diploma Supplements are only issued along with diplomas concerning courses within the Bologna Process – Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD Degrees.

How to request the Diploma Supplement ?

1. You do not need to request it, since it is issued along with the diploma and cannot be issued separately.
2. Therefore, the question to be asked is “How to request a Certificate or a Diploma"
3. The supplement is delivered electronically in a digital format, by means of Inforestud@nte.

The Diploma Supplement is a document attached to the diploma, and therefore it is only issued after the student requests the diploma. At the UC the format of this document is a digital file in PDF (Portable Document Format), downloaded at Inforestud@nte and authenticated online by using an alphanumeric code. [cf. Note#2]

Activities that can be included on the Diploma Supplement:

The extracurricular activities accomplished by the Student must be certified so that they can be included on the Diploma Supplement. The table below lists the activities that were approved by the UC, the source of their certification, validation and registration on the Student’s Academic Record.

How to include these activities in the Diploma Supplement?

Note#1:

^{National Information about the Diploma Supplement is available at  https://www.dges.gov.pt/en/pagina/suplemento-ao-diploma »}

Note#2:

^{This option is a functionality of the Information Technology System of the UC, within the 5th SIMPLEX Programme: the SIMPLEX’10 whose measures of simplification are organised according to life events in which the citizen’s relation to the public administration may be simplified: measure “M023 – PERMANENT CERTIFICATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS”. The implementation of this measure implies enabling each student to obtain the Completion Certificate and the corresponding Diploma Supplement in a digital format.}