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“For Portugal to reach an investment level of 3% of the Gross Domestic Product in research by 2030, implies doubling public spending and multiplying private spending by 3.5, by 2030, which is equivalent to having to create around 25 thousand jobs of skilled work until 2030 in the private sector, that is, about two thousand per year ”, said Manuel Heitor, at the end of the meeting.
The Minister of Science and Higher Education highlighted four challenges for higher education in the coming years, the first of which consists of expanding to “most vulnerable groups”, in order to overcome the problem of demographic decline and reach 2030 with “ six out of 10 young people ”Attend higher education.
In this sense, it is necessary to “diversify the offer and specialize it” in interaction with research centers and with the labor market and the needs for job creation.
When addressing polytechnics, he stressed that these institutions “must continue the process” of investing in the professional courses they have been taking, attracting 400,000 students today, directing them in the future also to people already inserted in the labor market.
The fourth challenge is to better position higher education institutions at the European level, strengthening the networks of European higher education institutions and creating management models based on European consortia, which facilitate, for example, the recruitment of teachers and research . on the whole.
At the meeting, the president of the Coordinating Council of Higher Polytechnic Institutes, Pedro Dominguinhos, considered that the next community framework should reinforce the financing of higher professional courses in polytechnic institutes, “essential for the development of the regions” where they are located .
The official stressed that the goal was to reach 2020 with 20 thousand students attending these courses and “it was exceeded”, with 36 thousand students.
However, he warned, “there are regions where this supply is deficient”, giving the example of the Lisbon region.
The National Meeting of Polytechnics 2020 was organized by the National Federation of Associations of Polytechnic Students of Higher Education, in alliance with the Coordinating Council of Higher Polytechnic Institutes.
(News item corrected at 10:50 p.m.: the Ministry rectified the information it had given on the jobs created. There are 25,000 by 2023 and not per year)
