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The agreement with the Foundation will Poncemar that students can do internships in new facilities and increase the welfare activities
The full Consortium of the University Campus of Lorca, chaired by the Minister of Education and Universities, Maria Isabel Sanchez-Mora, today approved the agreement to establish the basis for the creation of a center for training and research in geriatric field of elderly Lorca campus.
This action, in addition to the Ministry, involved the council, which handed over the land, and the University of Murcia.
The Poncemar Foundation will be responsible for financing the construction of the center and manage it, while the University of Murcia will be dedicated to the organization of practices and research.
The Minister of Education stressed that "specialized training in the care and support for the elderly, as well as research regarding the ways of coping with the tasks to make them more comfortable and easier life for the elderly and disabled, must be a common goal, the interplay of the actions of each of the parties will increase the welfare and lives of older people. "
The project's main purpose is the creation on the campus of Lorca of a training and research in geriatric field of elderly assistance and care through service Day Centre and facilitate the adaptation of the offer vocational training courses and official university education to the needs of the center, "which will become a reference for the practical teaching of these qualifications and testing center of research on seniors at the university level," Sanchez said Blueberry.
The Minister expressed satisfaction with this agreement, "it is important to consolidate the campus and it means a better bet regional government for the promotion of Lorca as a university city" and stressed the ability of the Campus "to attract projects and initiatives field of public-private "cooperation, thanking and congratulating the Poncemar Foundation for this initiative.
For Sanchez-Mora, "is a basic project for takeoff campus, with the possibility of incorporating in the future, a bachelor's degree and master's degree related to the areas of gerontology and nursing of the elderly and nutritional care ".
Students who can benefit from this agreement are 1,244, 476 university degrees Nursing (248) and Nutrition and Dietetics (228) and 768 students of cycles Integrated Training Center Lorca.
Features and funding
The center is projected on a plot of dotacional nature with a planned floor area of ​​1,500 meters and independent access road inside the campus grounds.
The property will occupy a floor area of ​​400 square meters and will be distributed on two floors, without prejudice to future enlargements.
The ground floor is devoted to the Day Centre, with a capacity for approximately 20 users and upstairs to locate research facilities and training.
The funding will be borne by the Poncemar Foundation, which will provide 600,000 euros initially.
For its part, the Campus Consortium will provide 150,000 euros in five years and the city of Lorca 50,000 euros in the same time.
The Poncemar Foundation will be responsible for any budgetary slippage to occur.
Source: CARM
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