In this context, the polytechnic teaching, in general, and the
IPG education, in particular, presents some potentialities, as:
the innovative and dynamic capacity relatively to the traditional
structures; the flexibility and adaptation capacity to the social-economic context [19]; the engagement with productive and
social organizations on the area where it is located; the strategy
of diversification of the professed study programmes; and the
rehearsal of pedagogic methods that motivate the creativity, the
initiative, the risk and the collaboration inter-specialties [20].
To implement this, in the ICT framework the IPG provides to
all students, teachers and staff several services, such as: Web
services, Network services, FCCN (in portuguese, Fundação
para a Computação Científica Nacional) Services, and other
online services. Firstly, Web services available on the IPG are: