**4.4 Cape Verde**

The University of Cape Verde is the first public institution with the character of a university in the country and is therefore a reference for Cape Verdean higher education. Its organic composition consists of five faculties and it has six campus spread over several locations in two islands.

Its history can be traced back to the immediate period of post-independence, when the country's first higher education school was founded in 1979. In 2006, after the meeting of three independent public higher schools, the University of Cape Verde was created.

The University of Cape Verde has been part of CPLP University Mechanism since its creation in 2015, through the School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, created on 23 December 2011. This School provides degree courses in Agronomy and Zootechny and intends to open in the coming years the courses in Environmental Engineering and Forest Engineering (**Figure 8**).
