The Panel of Judges of the Court of Beja sentenced an accused.
On your website, the Polytechnic Institute of Beja (IPBeja) revealed that with the participation of the Municipality of Beja (CMB), submitted “an expression of interest for funding” under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) for the construction of a new student residence with 503 Beds.
As Lidador Notícias revealed on Friday, the project was presented under a program developed under the National Plan for Accommodation in Higher Education (Fhnaas), not having in the communiqué issued the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education revealed who had submitted the said application.
According to IPBeja, the proposal now submitted, in the form of an “expression of interests”, seeks to respond to the growing difficulty felt by students at the Polytechnic, when looking for accommodation in the city of Beja at the beginning of each school year. A difficulty that has been highlighted, on several occasions, by student representatives through their Academic Association.
The IPBeja maintains that “it is a difficulty to which the growing number of students that the Institute has been registering in recent years is not unrelated., as a result of the successful diversification of the training offer, namely through the increase in the number of students who are attending higher professional technical courses, postgraduate or master's degrees. There is even an expectation that they may potentially increase, in view of the new qualification programs also financed by the PRR, namely Impulso Jovem STEAM”.
Based on the identification of this need, and the current opportunity within the scope of the program developed under the National Plan for Accommodation in Higher Education (Fhnaas), the Presidency of IPBeja in partnership with the Municipal Executive, constituted a technical team that allowed the development of the proposal now presented, which has already received the support of a wide range of regional public entities, as is the case of CIMBAL.
“From the diagnosis made, it was concluded that there was a need to build a new student residence with 503 Beds, distributed in rooms with different types and requirements in terms of accessibility, safety and energy efficiency, an investment 15.020.431 euros”, justifies the educational institution.
Simultaneously, the increase in the number of beds offered by IPBeja and its concentration in a single building, “will favor the attraction of new students to the city of Beja and gains in efficiency in the management of residences”, justify.
The proposal now submitted will be analyzed by a high-level independent panel” that will evaluate it according to criteria associated with innovation in construction; execution capacity by March 2026; and, to the local demand/supply ratio. Evaluation criteria that deserved the utmost attention from the technical team that prepared the proposal.
“According to the analysis criteria, and the unique involvement of regional public entities in the application, the Presidency of IPBeja believes that its success will induce a dynamic development in the city of Beja, extended to Baixo-Alentejo”, ends the institution.
Turn, the mayor of Beja justified that the project has “the municipality as the main partner of the candidacy. We don't know if it will be approved or not of course. But let's move forward! To look for better accommodation solutions for all those who choose Beja as a place to study”, Paul justified Arsenic.
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