About the Information System

Historical Summary

SIGARRA was developed at the University of Porto.

In 1992 the Central Office team created GAUP – Gestão de Alunos da UP (Management of Students from the UP), which became of general use to all the UP faculties, with the purpose of managing the students’ records in their respective administration offices.

After 1996, the project of an integrated information academic system, with web interface, called SiFEUP, was launched at FEUP. This System moved towards integration with GAUP, having induced in it a profound revision in 2001.

In 2000, another Central Office team developed the GRHUP – Gestão de Recursos Humanos da UP (Human Resources Management of the UP), a centralized application to be used by the Personnel Service of the University. In 2003, this application started being integrated with the other components of the Information System.

After 2003, with the founding of IRICUP – Instituto de Recursos e Iniciativas Comuns da UP (Institute of Common Resources and Initiatives of the UP), the SIGARRA, an integrated system on the Web, was installed in the majority of the UP faculties. From that moment on, its availability was also admitted for other Higher Education Institutions.

IRICUP and FEUP, divided into two teams of about ten members each, are responsible for the system development.