Cooperation in the areas of the sea, renewable energy, healthcare, higher education and agribusiness will be strengthened in the III Summit Lusa-Cape Verdean, scheduled for December 17 in Lisbon, said today Lusa Portuguese government source.
The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Portuguese Cooperation, Luís Campos Ferreira, who today completed the first of two days of a working visit in Cape Verde, said these were the decisions from the different official meetings he held in City Beach.
The meetings he had with the Cape Verdean Foreign Ministers, Jorge Tolentino, and Higher Education, Science and Innovation, António Correia e Silva, and its counterpart Maria de Jesus Mascarenhas, Portuguese Secretary of State noted projects in renewable energies in the bet will be higher.
In the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cape Verde (Uni-CV), decided in collaboration with Portuguese universities, Campos Ferreira also highlighted a cooperation project in telemedicine, which will reduce the cost of the evacuations of Cape Verdeans in Portugal sick.
The meeting with Correia e Silva, Secretary of Portuguese State said to have left a proposal for holding a writing contest for students of the late (pre-university) secondary education, whose awards shall be the awarding of scholarships, the decision to be reviewed until the Lisbon summit.
In this connection, but since according to Correia e Silva, Cape Verde has also proposed that the 400 college students who seek to Portugal annually to pursue higher studies are exempt from tuition fees, the project will also be analyzed in next few weeks.
According to Campos Ferreira, cooperation between Portugal and Cape Verde is “across all sectors of activity,” especially in training and legislative training and investment.
Hence that said, the need for projects to be studied at the Lisbon summit to be deepened further, why the head of the Cape Verdean diplomacy, Jorge Tolentino, travels to Portugal for from Monday, continuing to finalize the themes of the meeting.
In addition to the ministerial meetings, Campos Ferreira attended this morning, delivery of 100 computers at the University of Cape Verde (Uni-CV), offering the International Bank of Cape Verde (BICV, renamed BES-CV, and participates in the evening, the ceremony 50 years of uninterrupted TAP flights between Portugal and the islands.
Saturday, the second and final day of the visit, Campos Ferreira is present in inauguration of the dam Figueira Gorda (northeast of Santiago), work executed by the Portuguese company Conduril, under a line of credit of € 100 million provided in 2009 by Portugal aimed at infraestruturação the country.
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