The IPT provides its students with excellent physical conditions and a close student-faculty relationship which is a key ingredient for academic success. IPT has appropriate facilities and support services to meet the students’ needs. The polytechnic places at the students disposal a wide range of support services and facilities: three residence halls, modern engineering laboratories, computer facilities that meet technological advancements, rooms for business solution, technical laboratories, acess to wireless network from any point in the campus, libraries, copying services, canteens and cafeterias.
The IPT provides the visiting students access to its various services in order to help them integrate in the polytechnic community:
International Relations Office (IRO)
The Polytechnic’s International Office takes a special interest in the needs of overseas students and is always happy to provide advice, assistance and information to those considering applying to Tomar.
The IRO is responsible for welcoming students to the IPT, offering advice and helping with accommodation, informing about different cultural activities that are organised and putting them in contact with the student’s union or other student’s organisations.
In order to be able to coordinate the arrival and exchange of students in a suitable way, students should contact the International Relations Office at:
Contacts:
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
Estrada da Serra – Quinta do Contador
2300 - 313 Tomar, Portugal
Telf: (+351) 249 346 363
Fax: (+351) 249 346 366
email: gri@ipt.pt
Opening Hours
From Monday to Friday:
9:00am – 1:00pm and 2:00pm – 5:00pm
World Point of contact – WPOC
World Point of Contact (WPOC) is a space at the Instituto Politécnico of Tomar which aims to support, integrate and monitor students throughout their period of study.
It consists of a group of mentors who are available to coach and support students in order to facilitate their integration, growth and development.
Further information at www.wpoc.ipt.pt
Erasmus Student Network (ESN)
IRO (International Relations Office) works in cooperation with the ESN, an Europe-wide student organisation that helps incoming international students in IPT. They organise activities that will help you integrate into the city’s academic life and Portuguese Culture and help you from arrival until departure.
You will find them at https://facebook.com/ESNtomar/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
Student point of contact – SPOC
The Student Point of Contact is the unique point of contact with the student in order to respond quickly and efficiently to any question related to their academic life.
Contacts:
Office building A – Tomar – Campus
Phone: + 351 249328240
Ext. –1119/1109
Email: spoc@ipt.pt
Opening Hours
From Monday to Friday:
9:00am - 12.30pm and 2:00pm - 4.30pm
Language centre – CL
IPT offers you a wide variety of opportunities to improve your language proficiency in Portuguese and other languages.
→See more information at http://www.cl.ipt.pt/
Student Welfare Services
The Student Welfare Services of the Polytechnic of Tomar (SAS – IPT) are an organisational unit of the Polytechnic with administrative, financial and asset-management autonomy. This service ensures that no student is hindered of studying at the Polytechnic because of financial difficulties. Its mission is, therefore, to manage and award scholarships and other grants to students in need, to manage and provide low-cost food in canteens and bars, to provide for accommodation in Halls of Residence and to manage sports facilities.
Contacts: SAS (Student Welfare Services)
Campus do IPT – Estrada da Serra, Tomar
Telf: (+351) 249 328 116
Fax: (+351) 249 328 109
sas@ipt.pt
Central Library
The central library is located in building C of the IPT. It contains about 26 000 titles and a vast collection of journals and magazines. It also contains all necessary materials for every degree course such as newspapers, monographs, maps, audiovisual resources, etc., which may be borrowed or consulted.
From local computers students can access the bibliographic databases and search by author, title or subject and locate books and journals in the respective shelves.
The Central Library also provides the b-on (Online Library) service, which allows electronic access to major editors of international scientific journals offering a wide range of scientific articles available online.
Opening times:
Monday to Friday: 8:30am – 12:00midnight
Saturday: 9:00am – 12:30pm
Library at the School of Technology at Abrantes
Monday to Friday: 9:30am – 10:00pm
Computer Facilities on Campus
Located on the second floor of Unit A of the Polytechnic’s main campus, the Computer Systems Centre (CIS) runs the Polytechnic’s computer services. This office provides a wide range of services to the polytechnic’s community such as e-mails, software programmes, intranet and hardware maintenance support.
There is a free e-mail service to all students allowing foreign students to keep in touch with their country of origin.
Access to internet by WI-Fi Network is also possible in the campus through appropriate authentication.
In order to benefit from these services, Erasmus students should contact the CIS.
Opening Hours:
From Monday to Friday:
Morning: 9:00am – 12:30pm
Afternoon: 2:00pm – 5:30pm
Contacts:
Centro de Informática e Sistemas
Quinta do Contador –Estrada da Serra, 2300-313 Tomar-Portugal
Telf: (+351) 249 328 207 | http://www.gi.ipt.pt
Leisure and Culture
The IPT offers sports facilities for the practice of football, basketball, handball, indoor football, tennis, table tennis, beach volley and rugby. Users of these facilities must have the SAS-IPT card.
The associative spirit of our students led to the creation of the Tuna Templária (Students’ Song Fest Group) in 2000. It is a male group playing many different instruments. There is also a female group in Tomar which started in 2001 and has also won some awards. The School of Technology at Abrantes also has its musical group (Estatuna) founded in 2000.
Every year, during one week in the month of May, the students celebrate the so-called “Queima das Fitas”. It is the students’ week and includes several festivities such as a religious ceremony, a student’s parade, a ball and music concerts, among others.
Canteens and bars
The Food Unit of the IPT campus located next to the Halls of Residence houses a cafeteria (open from 8:30am to 9:00pm) and a standard snack bar on the first floor and a low-cost canteen on the ground floor.
The canteen is intended for IPT students and requires the use of meal tickets, which can be bought at the IPT Student Welfare Services until the day before. A complete meal (soup, dish, bread, drink and dessert) at the canteen costs 2,75€ and students can choose between a fish, a meat, a diet or an optional course. This service is available at lunch and dinner times from Monday to Friday (12:00pm-2:30pm; 6:30pm-9:00pm).
The standard snack bar also has different meals. Price per meal is around 5,50€. Lunch time: 12:00pm-14:30pm and Dinner time: 18:30pm-21:00pm.
Photocopying service
Location: Building B ground floor. This service is run by Tribo das Letras and is open Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 8:00pm.
Student Card
After enrolment and registration in IPT our students will receive a student card that serves, not only as an identification card, but also facilitates access to the IPT’S buildings and services. With this card students can also have advantages and discounts in stores.
How to request it?
To request the student card you must access to our webpage http://portal2.ipt.pt/pt/comunidade/cartaoipt/, fill out the form available and deliver it in printed format to the Santander bank in Tomar.
Academic information systems
After enrolling, students can access our platforms Netp@, Moodle and institutional email.
Netp@ is a support platform for students. In this platform, students can see all academic information: marks, tuition fees payments, exam registrations as well as carrying out annual enrolments https://netpa.ipt.pt
Moodle is IPT’s e-learning platform, where students and faculty can share information and where it is possible to access the pedagogical content made available by the teaching staff from the various course units. http://www.e-learning.ipt.pt
The Institutional email is created once enrolment is complete (studentnumber@ipt.pt). All academic information will be sent to this email address (moodle, notices, etc) so you are advised to check it regularly or to forward the messages to your personal email account. That address (and the corresponding password) allows you to access a variety of information systems available for the IPT community members.
Internet access
IPT is part of the EDUROAM WIRELESS NETWORK, which can be used by faculty, students and staff with IPT’s email account.
To access our online services you must request your credentials on our webpage http://portal2.ipt.pt/en/comunidade/alunos/
