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The academic year at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (IPVC) begins on September 28 within the “new normal”, which also goes through classes on Saturdays and in spaces that until now were used for other technical-scientific activities.
In a statement, the IPVC adds that the classes will be face-to-face and that the use of a mask will be mandatory.
Other measures are the hygiene of hands and spaces, the placement of posters and barriers necessary to facilitate the movement of the community, “safeguarding social distance and avoiding the crossing of people in access to school spaces.”
In relation to accommodation, the IPVC proposes to maintain the same number of places as the previous year, either in their homes or with “special conditions”, in the youth hostels of Viana do Castelo, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Melgaço and Ponte de Lima , by means of a protocol with the managing entity.
“The IPVC is still in negotiations with various entities in the region, in the sense that they can, also under special conditions, be an alternative for student accommodation, in order to compensate for the decrease in accommodation capacity in the homes of the institution, ”he adds.
In dining rooms and bars, the IPVC will provide the “takeaway” service, in addition to redefining lunch hours, by implementing shifts reconciled with the opening hours of classes.
Meanwhile, the IPVC has already thought of “other solutions” if there is a worsening of the covid-19 pandemic, which involves the transformation of several rooms that are being equipped with image and sound capture systems that will allow the operation of the lessons. transmission.
The division of classes is also foreseen, by “much smaller” groups.
Teaching activities in synchronous and asynchronous systems, but especially the combination of the two systems, is another measure considered.
Faced with a new confinement scenario, the IPVC is “equally prepared”, since it was already implemented in the second half of 2019/20.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 863,679 deaths and infected more than 26 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal 1,829 people died of the 59,051 confirmed as infected, according to the latest bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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