Academy for Future Leaders

The aim of this course is to train senior professional accountants and tax professionals to take part in the management of public or private organisations' financial information systems, in terms of accounting and tax records and the planning and control of internal management processes, in order to obtain relevant information to support the administration/board of directors in making decisions regarding the organisation's economic and financial management. It allows you to develop specific technical skills to start a professional activity, identified as a market need, with good employability potential.

In recent years, tourism in Portugal has shown exponential growth and development, which is very significant for the current economy. This course aims to provide future professionals with the skills to build, develop, promote and trade different tourism services and products in tourism companies and other organisations in the sector that carry out a variety of tourism operations.

Designing and managing IT systems to support the different areas of management and the ability to manipulate, edit and analyse information in order to enhance the use of decision support tools.

The aim of this course is to train senior professionals in social media management, with the ability to design innovative search engine presence programmes, identify and segment the organisation's customers, create and evaluate attractive content and disseminate it in text, image, audio and video formats. The student who completes this course will be the trusted person in an organisation who monitors, filters, measures and guides the social media presence of a brand, product, individual or company.

This program aims to provide high-level training on how to manage international trade operations and contribute to the company's sustainable international development by researching and monitoring the international markets in which the company operates, prospecting/promoting, negotiating, making and monitoring sales of its products and/or services in foreign markets and optimising import processes.

Planning, implementing and coordinating, in collaboration with the company's management bodies, production activities and the equipment, materials and human resources assigned to the production process, with a view to optimising production and organisational competitiveness.

The aim of this course is to train senior catering and beverage professionals who, autonomously or with guidance, are able to lead, coordinate and control the activities and operations of food and beverage services, whether or not integrated into hotel units, guaranteeing quality of service, optimisation of resources and maximisation of business profitability. The Restaurant and Bar areas are studied in an integrated way, incorporating the best international practices and experiences and a growing closeness to the needs and expectations of the business market. It provides the labour market with specialised professionals with the skills to manage companies in the restaurant and beverage sector.