Polytechnic of Coimbra continues to focus on decentralizing training

The Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC) today presented the training offer that the Bairrada School will have in the municipality of Anadia, continuing the strategy of decentralizing training and bringing it closer to the productive sector.

“This training hub is part of the Polytechnic of Coimbra’s strategy to decentralize training, bringing it as close to the productive sector as possible. What we have done with the relocation hubs is to try to offer training that makes sense for the territory”, defended the president of the IPC.

According to Jorge Conde, the Bairrada School is an IPC hub created in the municipalities of Anadia and Mealhada, with training linked to the wine and sports sectors.

“So that we can have volume and so that it is exciting for students to be in a school that has many students, this will be completed with another level of training, namely with courses that have to do with the areas of tourism and IT,” he added.

Regarding the offer in Anadia, the president of the IPC informed that registrations are currently underway for some micro-accreditation courses.

“Our expectation is that technical courses for professionals, which are the main offer for young people finishing the 12th grade, can start in September. All the others, which are short courses and aimed at those who are already in the job market, will start as we open registrations and these are filled”, he added.

The Anadia Center will be located on the ground floor of the old Secondary School, however, until the building is inaugurated, face-to-face classes will take place in the auditorium of the Bairrada Wine Museum.

“According to the mayor [of Anadia], it is expected that the works will be completed at the beginning of the summer, so that we can guarantee that in September, when the school year begins, they will be ready”, she said.

In Mealhada, a course in the area of ​​sports is currently taking place.

“Between Mealhada and Anadia, we will have four CTeSP [higher professional technical courses] courses: two, one on each side, linked to the area of ​​IT; and then in the case of Anadia, the sustainable winemaking course, and in the case of Mealhada, the sports course. Between postgraduate degrees and micro-accreditations, there will be ten more courses”, he revealed.

The Polytechnic of Coimbra has the Higher School of Technology and Management in Oliveira do Hospital, which has been in existence for 24 years and has around 700 students.

Over the last four years, he created the Lousã Green School, “whose main product is the forest”; and the Cantanhede Creative School, where “the focus was on directing things more towards the arts”.

“We will soon be presenting an exclusive hub of the Higher School of Health, in Tocha, whose intention will be to move towards undergraduate degrees and not exclusively professional technical courses, as is the case with the other hubs”, he announced.

This center is the result of a partnership between the Polytechnic of Coimbra and the Local Health Unit (ULS) of Coimbra, which owns the Rehabilitation Center of the Center, which operates in the former Rovisco Pais Hospital, in Tocha, and the Municipal Council of Cantanhede.

“We are planning to relocate degrees there that do not exist in Coimbra and that we do not intend to open in Coimbra, but that we will open in Tocha. The first one that is planned is occupational therapy”, he concluded.