Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Maria do Rosário Bragança, said this Friday (10th) in Luanda that the Science and Technology Park of Luanda will be a point of interaction between academia, scientific research and the business world.
The minister made this statement after presiding over the laying of the first stone for the construction of the aforementioned infrastructure.
He explained that the initiative is part of the Project for the Development of Science and Technology (PDCT) and stressed that, similarly to spaces of this kind in the world, it will allow the concentration of businesses of companies in formation (Company Incubators or Spin-Off), Centers of Scientific Research and Institutions of Higher Education.
He explained that it will be an unprecedented work in the country, in a noble place in the city of Luanda, to give better dignity to the National Center for Scientific Research (CNIC), which is in an advanced state of degradation, as well as the rehabilitation, demolition and construction of new institutions in the surroundings.
Maria Bragança underlined that the infrastructure will give a new dynamic to the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation.
According to the minister, students in the undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, masters and doctoral stages will be able to improve their training, through internships in companies, entrepreneurship projects and business incubators.
On his turn, the executive director of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Gerard Bussier, praised the investment in science and technology that the Angolan Government is making, taking into account the enormous potential in resources not yet exploited.
Through science and technology, according to Gerard Bussier, Angola will gain workers with a flexible career, particularly in the areas of science.
The work, which will last 30 months, is budgeted at US$35 million, co-financed (by loan) by the African Development Bank (AfDB).
The contract will be carried out by the PAN-CHINA GROUP, which will build eight new buildings and a greenhouse and rehabilitate 11 other physical structures.
The first phase of the project, which will be completed within 14 months, comprises the rehabilitation of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNIC), the construction of a new building for the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Agostinho Neto University, among other works.
The Science and Technology Development Project has a national scope and aims to contribute to the diversification of the economy, through science and technology. counterpart funds from the Angolan Government.
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