Fifteen Mozambican students selected for technical-professional training in Portugal travel this week, as part of the scholarship program.

This is the first group of young people admitted to the program, 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 farewell 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 entered into 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 will benefit from training in the area of technical-vocational education, a strategic branch of knowledge for the training of human capital with know-how skills and life skills.

"The young people who travel to Portugal and 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 welfare," he stressed.

Marta da Costa, 18, admitted for the course of digital technologies for agro-industry, hopes, with training, to acquire more knowledge to be able to contribute to the country's development.  

IBE is a public institution of national scope, under the tutelage of the MCTES, whose objectives are to promote access to training through the attribution of scholarships in the country and abroad for the attendance of students in the general secondary, technical-professional, and higher education levels.