Fifteen Mozambican students selected for technical-vocational training in Portugal travel this week, as part of the programmed for awarding scholarships.
This is the first group of young people admitted to the scheme, in an initiative of the Institute of Scholarships (IBE) and the Northern Integrated Development Agency (ADIN).
The project is part of the memorandum of understanding signed between the two institutions, which aims to train 130 students from the northern region of the country. By next week the same number of young people will also leave for Portugal.
At the valedictory ceremony, Daniel Nivagara, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES), congratulated IBE and ADIN for their diligence in operationalizing the results of the recent memorandum, signed between the two institutions.
“In July of this year, IBE and ADIN signed a partnership and cooperation agreement whose purpose is to establish conditions for the promotion of greater training of Mozambican human capital, through access to scholarships,” he recalled.
The minister said that the students would benefit from training in the area of technical-vocational education, a strategic branch of knowledge for training human capital with know-how and life skills.
“The young people who travel to Portugal and so many others who will follow, once they graduate, will contribute to the promotion of the socio-economic growth and development of our country, a basic condition for the creation of social well-being,” he stressed.
Marta da Costa, 18 years old, admitted to the digital technologies course for agro-industry, hopes, with training, to acquire more knowledge so that she can contribute to the country’s development.
IBE is a public institution of national scope, supervised by the MCTES, whose objectives are to promote the access to training through the attribution of scholarships in the country and abroad for the attendance of students at general secondary, technical-professional and higher education levels.
