Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, with its 30 years of service to the academic and scientific community, believes that the time has come to launch a new phase in its long history: distance learning. A faculty of excellence will allow offering new training opportunities in different scientific areas and in various training cycles. Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL) was set up on 13 December 1985 and is the oldest private university in the country, with 29 years of experience serving the academic and student community. With a faculty of excellence and a vast educational offer consisting of undergraduate, master, postgraduate and doctoral programmes from several areas of knowledge, UAL is firmly established in higher education in Portugal