An Intensive Programme (IP) is a short programme of study (2-6 weeks of subject related work) which brings together students and staff from higher education institutions in at least three participating countries in order to:
Encourage efficient and multinational teaching of specialist topics which might otherwise not be taught at all, or only in a very restricted number of universities;
Enable students and teachers to work together in multinational groups and so benefit from special learning and teaching conditions not available in a single institution, and to gain new perspectives on the topic being studied;
Allow members of the teaching staff to exchange views on teaching content and new curricula approaches and to test teaching methods in an international classroom environment.

For more information, see the Portal of Intensive Programmes in which the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança is the coordinating institution.