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Programs

We want to empower young students to be fair and to share their knowledge! Be generous! Be true and you will be inspiring! May they take advantage of luck! Enjoy it and share it!

Programmes | Instituto Rodrigo Guimarães

Pre-University

Planting the seed of curiosity.

social support institutions
private and cooperative schools
Social support institutions

We support young people in social support institutions where they live or which they attend. These institutions work with young people not only on education, but also on the social and family side of their lives.

Associação Padre Amadeu Pinto Casa da Estrela Casa de S. Francisco de Assis Carmoteca Casa dos Rapazes
Private and cooperative schools

We work with private and cooperative schools so that students with fewer financial resources can have access to a quality education.

Colégio de São Tomás Colégio de S. José Ramalhão Colégio de Santa Maria

University

Consolidating knowledge and stepping out of the comfort zone.

We establish agreements with universities and social institutions to create Rodrigo Guimarães Scholarships.

universities
social institutions
At universities Scholarships for bachelor's and master's degrees and Erasmus.
At social institutions Scholarships for bachelor's degrees.

Partnership scholarships

Rodrigo Guimarães Clearwater Scholarship Created in partnership with Clearwater: one more bachelor's scholarship at ISEG for young people with fewer financial resources who are motivated to achieve success.
Coming soon Friends of Rodrigo Guimarães Scholarship We are building a Scholarship in Rodrigo's name to support 2 young people through their bachelor's degree. Stay tuned! Friends of Rodrigo Guimarães Scholarship
Universities
Nova SBE ISEG – Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Universidade do Minho FEP – Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra
Social institutions
Fundação Santa Rafaela Maria Casa de S. Francisco de Assis Associação Padre Amadeu Pinto
Who walks with us
Clearwater

More Horizons

Making a difference and innovating.

We keep designing new responses and remain open to other initiatives because we want to keep sowing the desire to learn. We want to help shape great entrepreneurs.

+1000 people reached by the programmes we support
Step Up to Start Up
Step Up to Start Up

We created an idea incubator – Step UP to Start Up! – for young people aged 16 to 18, now heading into its 4th edition.

Team Pluto was the big winner of the 3rd edition, in 2026. The project aims to make managing money as simple and intuitive as learning English on Duolingo, through Pluto, a gamified financial education app. With daily lessons, challenges, rewards and artificial intelligence as a personal advisor, the solution helps young people in particular to build healthy financial habits in a simple, fun and interactive way, promoting greater financial literacy and better financial decisions.

Keep an eye on the programme's progress and find out how you can take part!

MentorART
MentorART

We are developing a pilot for a mentoring programme, in partnership with MentorART, an initiative that we believe is deeply aligned with what we are trying to build as a community.

At the Institute, we often talk about our Wheel of Giving and Receiving: along our journey, we receive opportunities, learning, support and inspiration — and the moment also comes when we can put who we are and what we have learned at the service of others.

It is an opportunity to give, by sharing experiences, references and perspectives that can broaden a young person's horizons. But it is also an opportunity to receive: to learn from a new reality, to develop listening, empathy, communication, and critical and creative thinking, and to grow through the relationship with another person.

We believe this can be a very special way to keep the Wheel of Giving and Receiving turning and to multiply the impact of the opportunities that, at different moments, were also part of our own journeys.

If you believe in the power of mentoring and would like to share your experience, knowledge and time to make a difference in someone else's journey, sign up through this link and come be part of this wheel!

Join the Institute and become a MentorART Mentor

Teach For Portugal
Teach For Portugal

We support institutions that promote motivation and academic success, such as Teach For Portugal.

Mentes Empreendedoras
Mentes Empreendedoras

We support programmes that encourage entrepreneurship, such as Mentes Empreendedoras.

Rodrigo Guimarães Chair - Westmont Institute
Westmont Institute of Tourism and Hospitality

We created the Rodrigo Guimarães Chair at the Nova SBE Westmont Institute of Tourism & Hospitality, to attract innovative talent to Portugal and make a difference in the tourism and hospitality sectors.

Professor Graham Miller holds the Instituto Rodrigo Guimarães Chair in Sustainable Business at Nova School of Business and Economics, where he is also Academic Director of the Westmont Institute of Tourism and Hospitality.

 FAQs

  • The eligibility conditions for being able to apply for the Rodrigo Guimarães Scholarship are as follows: having a certain financial condition, being a resident in Portugal, and being endowed with initiative, motivation and commitment characteristics.

    You should consult each protocol or regulation of each university, college or organization with which we establish protocols.

  • If you are a student of a master's or degree in management and economics, you can apply through the faculties with which we have established protocols: Nova SBE, Católica Business School, ISCTE Business School and ISEG.

  • You have to consult the website of the college where you are enrolled, as they will be released in due course.

  • You have to consult the regulation of each university or ask for clarification from each one.

  • If you're in high school, get together with 2, 3 or 4 friends and form a team. Apply for the next edition and become Portugal's next entrepreneur!