On December 7, the fifth anniversary of the Confucius Institute at the University of Porto (U.Porto) was celebrated. Since it was founded in 2019, the Confucius Institute at U.Porto has taught Mandarin to more than 250 people, as well as spreading Chinese culture through dozens of activities available to the public. 

As the achievement of a partnership between the University of Porto and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, the Confucius Institute at U.Porto was inaugurated in May 2019, with the aim of broadening Portuguese students' cultural horizons and strengthening cooperation between the U. Porto and China.

The representative on the board of the Confucius Institute of the University of Porto, Sónia Valente Rodrigues, said that the U.Porto has created the structures and stabilized the teaching staff and a set of mechanisms that will allow this cultural and educational relationship with China to be consolidated.

(Source: U.Porto website, on December 11)