The memorandum of understanding signed recently between the Instituto de Bolsas de Estudios (IBE) and the Agência de Desenvolvimento Integrado do Norte (ADIN) is boosting the training process for young students from the districts of Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Nampula provinces.

According to a source from IBE, this initiative aims to create conditions that make more flexible the attribution of scholarships to young people who, for various reasons, have not had the opportunity to graduate at a technical and university level, ending up not having the same degree of competitiveness with those from other parts of the country.

In the first phase, this program contemplated 70 students, 14 of whom are already in Portugal to receive higher education in several areas of knowledge.

For the realization of this initiative the two institutions have funding from the State and the World Bank, with ADIN as the implementing entity.

According to the source, the initiative to contemplate, in a first phase, only young people from the three northern provinces of the country, is part of the strategy adopted by ADIN to enhance human capital as an effort to stimulate the development of Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Nampula.

Moreover, the idea is to respond to a specific problem that this region is facing, one of which is the need to address the problems generated by the terrorist attacks in Cabo Delgado, with strong repercussions in Nampula and Niassa, which affected the normal course of training of many young people.

In fact, the source explained that it was in this context that ADIN and IBE initialed an agreement that aims to find solutions for the continuity of the academic training of these young people.

For this process, we selected candidates who have completed the 12th grade with an average of no less than 12 points and without the financial capacity to pay for their own training.