On 24 March, at the Solemn Session of Dia da Universidade 2025, the students António Lourenço Rodrigues and Luís Barbosa, from the Bachelor in Informatics and Computing Engineering (L.EIC), were awarded the Incentive Prize 2025, for the best 1st year students from the 14 faculties of U.Porto in the academic year 2023/2024.
The 22 awarded students stood out for the exceptional quality of their academic career in the 1st year of the program, led by António Lourenço Rodrigues, who finished with an average of 19.83 marks. Luís Barbosa was also on the 19 mark (19.35) with an equally fantastic first year.
António said in an interview about the prize: ‘The Incentive Award represents recognition, on the part of the University, of my efforts throughout the first year. For me, it’s one more motivation to keep doing my best and improving academically.’ The interview given to the U.Porto’s communication team can be read in full here.
Luís Barbosa also sees the Incentive Award as recognition of his efforts over the past year. “It’s a motivation to keep learning and studying” says Luís in his interview.
The Incentive Award has been awarded annually since 2010 and corresponds to an individual monetary prize corresponding to the annual tuition fee applied to U.Porto’s national students.
Photo (from left to the right): Luís Barbosa and António Lourenço Rodrigues.