Polytechnic Health Higher Institute of the North

Instituto Politécnico de Saúde do Norte - CESPU

Instituto Politécnico De Saúde Do Norte

Basic information

  • Identifiers
    • DEQARINST2176
    • PT0115
    • PT-ETER.BAS.NATID: 4107
    • Erasmus: P PORTO56

      • Erasmus Institution Code

      Identifier assigned by the European Commission to higher education institutions participating in the Erasmus+ programme - data harvested from ETER/OrgReg

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    • WHED: IAU-022510

      • IAU World Higher Education Database (WHED)

      Identifier used in the world-wide WHED database of higher education institutions, managed by the International Association of Universities (IAU) - data harvested from ETER/OrgReg

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  • Provider type
    higher education institution
  • Legal seat(s)
    Paredes, Portugal
  • Further location(s)
    Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
    Penafiel, Portugal
  • Website
    http://www.cespu.pt
  • Founding year
    1997
  • QF-EHEA levels
    second cycle, first cycle
  • Part of
  • Previous names
    • Polytechnic Health Higher Institute of the North (Instituto Politécnico de Saúde do Norte) until 30/06/2015
  • Permalink
    https://data.deqar.eu/institution/2176

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Institutional Assessment
    Carried out every six years, years, at the end of each regular cycle of assessment/accreditation of all study programmes in operation
  • Accredition of study programmes in operation
    The usual period of validity of the accreditation is 6 years. In case of a lighter touch approach, only a desk analysis is carried out.
  • Further information on external quality assurance in Portugal

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

No results found.

Programme level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Enfermagem (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Nursing
  • Qualification/award
    • Licenciatura
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Enfermagem (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Nursing
  • Qualification/award
    • Licenciatura
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Enfermagem de Reabilitação (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Rehabilitation Nursing
  • Qualification/award
    • Mestrado
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Enfermagem Médico-Cirúrgica na área da enfermagem à pessoa em situação perioperatória (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Medical-Surgical Nursing in the area of Nursing for People in Perioperative Situations
  • Qualification/award
    • Mestrado
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Enfermagem Médico-Cirúrgica - na área de especialização em Enfermagem à Pessoa em Situação Crítica (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Medical-Surgical Nursing - specialisation area in Critical Care Nursing
  • Qualification/award
    • Mestrado
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Enfermagem Veterinária (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Veterinary Nursing
  • Qualification/award
    • Licenciatura
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Farmácia (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Pharmacy
  • Qualification/award
    • Licenciatura
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Fisioterapia (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Phisiotherapy
  • Qualification/award
    • Licenciatura
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Fisioterapia (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Physiotherapy
  • Qualification/award
    • Licenciatura
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Imagem Médica e Radioterapia (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Osteopatia (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Osteopathy
  • Qualification/award
    • Licenciatura
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Podiatria do Exercício Físico e do Desporto (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Sport and Physical Exercise Podiatry
  • Qualification/award
    • Mestrado
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Podologia (first cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Podiatry
  • Qualification/award
    • Licenciatura
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.