CEDIPRE - Centro de Estudos de Direito Público e Regulação

What CEDIPRE - Centro de Estudos de Direito Público e Regulação does

CEDIPRE — Centro de Estudos de Direito Público e Regulação — is a non-profit academic research center established in 2000 within the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (FDUC) in Portugal. It conducts advanced research and postgraduate education in public law, with core practice areas in administrative law, regulation, public procurement, administrative justice, and public employment, under the presidency of Pedro Costa Gonçalves and a research body composed of distinguished Portuguese legal academics.

The center's core products are postgraduate and specialization courses (delivered in-person and via ZOOM), a specialized publication portfolio of 57 titles and 41 issues of the Revista de Contratos Públicos (RCP) distributed through the Almedina publishing channel, and recurring conferences and seminars, including the April 2025 IBDA/FDUC-CEDIPRE Encounter on Global Administrative Law co-organized with the Brazilian Institute of Administrative Law. Undergraduate teaching is not part of the offering; CEDIPRE's educational surface is entirely postgraduate. The underlying "technology" is doctrinal and convening capacity — a brand-anchored curriculum in Lusophone administrative law — rather than a software platform.

Revenue derives from per-student course fees (€800 per postgraduate course, with registration/certification fees pushing effective revenue per student to roughly €1,000–€1,150), publication sales via Almedina at retail prices of €21–€42 per title, and modest fees from partner regulators (IMPIC, ANAC, ERSE, ERS) for in-house training. The customer base — jurists, public administrators, regulators, and academics, with over 8,000 alumni trained across the center's history — is distributed across Portugal and, increasingly, Brazil, with no large single-customer dependency.

Name

CEDIPRE - Centro de Estudos de Direito Público e Regulação

Legal name

CEDIPRE – Centro de Estudos de Direito Público e Regulação

Website

https://cedipre.fd.uc.pt

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

CEDIPRE is a non-profit academic research center within the University of Coimbra's Faculty of Law, founded in 2000, delivering postgraduate courses, specialized publications, and conferences in public law, regulation, administrative justice, and public procurement for jurists, public administrators, and academics primarily in Portugal.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Education and Research

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Legal & Compliance (CLE, Paralegal CE) (EDAAALAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Professional Certification & Training Content Publishing (Exam Prep, CE/CPD) (MPAJACAL)

Keywords

• Public law research
• Postgraduate legal education
• Public procurement training
• Regulatory law studies
• Administrative justice

Headquarters

HQ city

Coimbra

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Postgraduate Course Fees: CEDIPRE generates primary revenue through postgraduate and specialization course fees. Courses such as the Public Procurement postgraduate course (800€ tuition fee) and Administrative Justice postgraduate course are offered. Additional fees apply for written work submission (300€) and diploma issuance (50€).
2. Publication Sales: Revenue is generated from the sale of specialized publications including the Revista de Contratos Públicos (21.20€ per issue), Estudos de Contratação Pública series, Estudos de Regulação Pública series, and the Handbook de Administração Público-Privada (42.40€). Editions are distributed through Almedina publishing house.
3. Conference Registration Fees: The center organizes international conferences, colloquia, and seminars, with some events charging registration fees (e.g., 10€ certificate fee for the International Conference on Concessions and PPPs).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

CEDIPRE is a research and postgraduate education center within the Faculty of Law at the University of Coimbra that delivers specialized postgraduate and specialization courses in public law areas including public procurement, administrative justice, public regulation and competition, and public employment. The center also produces and sells a portfolio of academic publications including peer-reviewed journals (Revista de Contratos Públicos, Revista de Direito Público e Regulação), book series (Estudos de Regulação Pública, Estudos de Contratação Pública), an online publication platform (CEDIPRE OnLine), and a reference handbook, and it organizes academic conferences and seminars on regulated sectors.

Product overview

CEDIPRE operates as a research center at the University of Coimbra offering a portfolio of academic publications and postgraduate education programs in public law and regulation. Its publication portfolio comprises five main products: the Revista de Contratos Públicos (academic journal on public procurement), Estudos de Regulação Pública (book series on regulatory law), Estudos de Contratação Pública (four-volume work on public contracts), the online-only Revista de Direito Público e Regulação, and the CEDIPRE OnLine platform hosting individual studies. Additionally, it publishes the Handbook de Administração Público-Privada and a newsletter. The educational offerings include four specialized postgraduate courses covering public procurement, administrative justice, public regulation and competition, and public employment law.

Differentiator

Problem solved

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Brands

• Revista de Contratos Públicos (RCP): A specialized journal dedicated to public procurement law, published since 2011, subject to double blind peer review.
• CEDIPRE OnLine
• Estudos de Regulação Pública
• Estudos de Contratação Pública
• Revista de Direito Público e Regulação

Products and services

• Curso de Pós-Graduação em Contratação Pública A specialized postgraduate program providing in-depth training in legal issues related to public procurement law, directed at jurists, managers and other professionals and conducted via ZOOM on Saturdays.
• Curso de Pós-Graduação em Justiça Administrativa A postgraduate program providing specialized training in legal issues related to administrative justice, designed for jurists and other professionals seeking advanced expertise in the field.
• Curso de Pós-Graduação em Regulação Pública e Concorrência A postgraduate program providing advanced training in public regulation and competition law, with special focus on economic regulation of essential sectors such as energy, telecommunications, and transport.
• Curso de Especialização em Direito do Emprego Público A specialization course addressing the most innovative and problematic aspects of the new General Law on Public Service Employment, with a predominantly practical vocation.
• Revista de Contratos Públicos (RCP) A specialized double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to public procurement law, serving as a forum for doctrinal studies, analysis, and commentary on Portuguese and European public contracts regulation.
• Estudos de Regulação Pública A series of scholarly volumes published by Coimbra Editora covering topics of public regulatory law and economics, constituting an important compilation of national doctrine on regulatory matters.
• Estudos de Contratação Pública A four-volume collective work on public procurement that emerged following the entry into force of the new Public Contracts Code, contributing to the clarification of various issues related to public procurement.
• Revista de Direito Público e Regulação The first Portuguese online legal journal covering public law and regulation topics, created to disseminate knowledge in a faster, more ecological, and economical manner through flexible online publication formats.
• CEDIPRE OnLine An online publication platform hosting studies and articles on topics including public procurement, administrative law, regulatory matters, and public policy, distributed as PDFs.
• Handbook de Administração Público-Privada A comprehensive academic handbook covering topics on public administration including governance, strategic decision-making, electronic governance, and sectoral areas such as justice, health, and local administration.

Quantifiable outcome

• 8,000+ students trained over 25 years
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• IBDA - Instituto Brasileiro de Direito AdministrativocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 April 2025The IBDA (Brazilian Institute of Administrative Law) is a Brazilian professional association of administrative law scholars and practitioners. CEDIPRE co-organized the IBDA/FDUC-CEDIPRE Encounter on Global Administrative Law with IBDA, held on April 23-24, 2025, demonstrating a collaborative international partnership in comparative administrative law research and education.
• IMPIC - Instituto dos Mercados Públicos, do Imobiliário e da ConstruçãocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIMPIC is the Portuguese regulator for public markets, real estate, and construction. CEDIPRE maintains a partnership with IMPIC, displaying its logo on the partnerships section of the institutional page, indicating collaborative relations in areas of public procurement and construction regulation.
• ANAC - Autoridade Nacional da Aviação CivilcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerANAC is the Portuguese National Civil Aviation Authority. CEDIPRE partners with ANAC as part of its strategy to maintain close collaboration with regulatory bodies in sectors relevant to its research and teaching mission, including transportation and aviation regulation.
• ERSE - Entidade Reguladora dos Serviços EnergéticoscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerERSE is the Energy Services Regulatory Authority of Portugal. CEDIPRE collaborates with ERSE on topics related to energy regulation, with the regulator appearing in CEDIPRE's partnerships section and the center conducting studies and publishing on energy sector regulation.
• ERS - Entidade Reguladora da SaúdecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerERS is the Health Regulatory Authority of Portugal. CEDIPRE maintains a partnership with ERS, collaborating on health sector regulation topics and displaying the regulator's logo in its institutional partnerships section.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Almedina: The Portuguese legal publishing house that distributes CEDIPRE's publications. Comparable as the primary distribution channel for CEDIPRE's books and journals and as a broader academic legal content publisher in Portugal.

Direct peers

• Instituto Jurídico da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra: The broader academic research and postgraduate teaching structure within FDUC itself, comparable to CEDIPRE as part of the same institution providing specialized postgraduate legal education and publications.
• Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Administrativo (IBDA): A Brazilian professional association of administrative law scholars and practitioners. Directly comparable to CEDIPRE as a Latin-Portuguese language institution focused on administrative law research and education, and an explicit partner through the 2025 IBDA/FDUC-CEDIPRE Encounter.
• CIDP - Centro de Investigação em Direito Público: A Portuguese public law research center based at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, directly comparable as a competing national public-law research and postgraduate training hub.
• Instituto de Direito Público (IDP): A Brazilian institute specializing in public law research and postgraduate education, comparable to CEDIPRE in mission (public law research and continuing legal education) and serving a related Lusophone market.

Broad incumbents

• Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law: A leading European academic research center for comparative public law, comparable to CEDIPRE in combining rigorous academic research with policy engagement and publication output, but operating at much larger international scale.
• Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (FDUL) Postgraduate Programs: A major Portuguese law faculty offering postgraduate and continuing legal education programs across many legal domains, comparable to CEDIPRE as a competing Portuguese postgraduate legal education provider with broader scope.

Regional players

• CEJUR - Centro de Estudos Jurídicos do Minho: A Portuguese legal research and postgraduate training center at the University of Minho, comparable in offering postgraduate legal courses and conducting legal scholarship in adjacent areas to CEDIPRE's public-law focus.

Market position

Strengths8 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

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