“…As happened in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Greece, Portugal and Uruguay, amongst others, the universities became strongholds of relative and minimal, though undeniable, freedom; the university was the main underground lab in which democracy was designed and fashioned, and acted as one of the catalysts for the political, social and cultural transformations. From the mid-1960s onwards, student activism and organised mobilisationsoften under the leadership of professors -steadily grew in magnitude and, over the course of the next two decades, they became key factors in the triumph of the processes of dismantling the dictatorships (González Calderón, 2015;González Gómez, 2015a;Henriques, Marchao, Mourato, 2015;Hernández Huerta, González Gómez, 2014;Hernández Huerta, Ortega Gaite, 2015;Karamanolakis, 2015;Markarián, 2015;Mota, Ferreira, 2015;Rocha, 2015;Rodríguez, 2015;Soler, Elías & Portillo, 2015;Torgal, 2015;Toro Blanco, 2015;Vasconcelos Fernandes, 2015).…”