Huambo – European Union (EU) announced an amount of 6 million euros as being available to finance the promotion of postgraduate training in the country, through the implementation of the Support Programme for Angola’s Higher Education (UNI.AO).
This was announced Thursday by the coordinator of the UNI.AO Technical Team, Benjamin Buclet.
Buclet was speaking during an official opening ceremony of the 2nd Master’s course in veterinary medicine in the specialty of Animal Health and Production, as part of this project.
Attended by 31 trainees since last December, the 2nd Master’s course is run the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the José Eduardo dos Santos University (UJES), in partnership with its counterpart in Chile.
It has the support of four Chilean and 15 Angolan professors, over a period of two years.
Benjamin Buclet explained that this amount is being earmarked for the implementation of the two phases of the programme, through its two public notices, scheduled to end in December 2024.
The source stated that 3 million euros, of this global amount (Eur 6 million), will be used to subsidise courses, through the payment of foreign teachers’ salaries, acquisition of the means and equipping laboratories, classrooms and other actions.
The remaining 3 million euros will be used to grant scholarships between 10 and 15 students of each course, with a value of 100,000 Kwanzas per month and 600,000 for research.
Source: Angola Press News Agency