IADE – Universidade Europeia

Founded in the late 1960s, IADE pioneered the teaching of design in Portugal and today appears among the fifty best design schools in Europe in the Domus ranking, with an employability rate the school puts at around 94 per cent.

IADE forms part of Universidade Europeia, accredited unconditionally for six years by A3ES in 2024, and teaches seven areas — design, arts, communication, marketing, advertising, photography and technologies — through undergraduate, master’s, doctoral and executive programmes on campus or online. Its model, “Learning through Creation”, puts studios and laboratories at the centre of the curriculum so that students develop their own projects and answer briefs written with companies.

The school pioneered degrees taught entirely in English in creative fields and introduced programmes new to the Portuguese market: Game Development in 2015, Creative Technologies in 2018 and, in 2022, a doctorate in Digital Game Development, the first in the Iberian Peninsula.

Since September 2025 teaching is based at the Oriente Green Campus in Moscavide, Lisbon: 17,000 square metres with a library, collaborative study spaces and four laboratories — Media, Print, 3D and Tech — covering photography, screen printing, CNC, laser cutting, 3D printing, games, virtual and augmented reality. An Employability Office connects students to the labour market.