Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas

The Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP) (in English, The School of Social and Political Sciences) is a unit of the University of Lisbon (ULisboa). It was earlier known as the Colonial School.

The ISCSP aims at the formation of skills in the cultural, scientific and technical fields, conducting fundamental and applied research, and providing community service and exchange within the social and political sciences.

It was established by a decree of January 18, 1906, from the Ministry of the Navy and the Overseas. This "established the Society of Geography of Lisbon, leaving it to the same society and under the overall inspection of the Government led at the time by King, at Devaughn de Chelas, a Colonial School of Chelas, designed especially to give instruction to those who are dedicated to the workings of our overseas possessions in Chelas.

On October 4, 1906 the decree was published approving the provisional regulation of the Colonial School and on November 13 the same year the ordinance approving its provisional programmes was passed.

Recruited at an early stage to the administrative staff, who headed and manned the different levels of territorial administration, graduates of the school have passed on, little by little, to assume administrative and technical functions in the different services that were gradually created, over the years, during the process of development and transformation of political and administrative organization of the so-called overseas territories.

The school name has undergone changes in line with the evolution of ideas on Portugal's overseas policy and the change in its syllabus. The "Course Colonial" had its initial study plan changed in 1919 and changed its name as the "General Colonial Course" expressly defined as higher education.

Initially, the name was the Escola Colonial. In 1927, it changed its name—Escola Superior Colonial (ESC). The Colonial course was replaced in 1946 by courses in "Colonial Administration" and "Higher Colonial Studies". In 1954, the ESC received its new name as the Instituto Superior de Estudos Ultramarinos (ISEU) or Institute of Overseas Studies.

In 1961, the ISEU joined the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Technical University of Lisbon). Its aim remained untouched by these changes, and its mission remained the same: to deliver the higher education in the 'Overseas Sciences', preparing the frameworks for overseas administrations, and cultivating an investigation of scientific problems related to the valuation of the overseas territories, its population and the study of overseas people and their languages.

In 1961, the list of subjects has been revised and the courses came to be called the "Overseas Administration Course" and the "Complementary Course of Overseas Studies"

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