The national plan for Higher Education accommodation faces significant delays, with only 11% of the 19,000 planned beds completed until April.
Only 11% of the beds provided for in the national plan for Higher Education accommodation are ready, according to . Among the causes of the delay are the lack of proposals in contract competitions and the increase in construction materials costs.
The plan foresees the creation and remodeling of thousands of beds until mid -2026 and, although the goal remains far from being achieved, the government believes in complying with the deadlines.
According to the newspaper, until April, 2139 beds were ‘completed’, or only 11% of the 19 thousand foreseen in the within the scope of the Plan of Recovery and Resilience (PRR).
Of this total, 1162 are new beds and the remaining 977 are the result of interventions to improve accommodation that already exist.
Speaking to the public, the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation justifies the delay with “The absence of proposals in the competition procedures of contracts (…) and the widespread increase in the costs of construction materials, which make it difficult to comply with the initial budgets and the feasibility of the execution of these projects within the expected period.”
Created in 2018 by the previous government, the plan targeting 18,000 beds intervened by 2026. The current government updated the goal for the 19 thousand beds.
