The educational project of the Lusófona University is the largest and most important education and training initiative that emerged from within the civil society in contemporary Portugal. Nowadays, this project goes beyond the frontiers of our country and finds echo in similar educational initiatives in Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, being the Lusófona University the institution that leads the wider educational project of "Lusófona Group ". Currently, more than 25,000 students attend the 22 education institutions that comprise the “Lusófona Group" in the various Portuguese-speaking countries.