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| Work begins to remodel the building that will accommodate up to 270 students in the academic year 2021-22 | Starting gun for the remodeling works of the old administrative building on Sor Francisca Armendáriz street, which will become the new student residence of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT).

University officials together with regional and local authorities have attended today the symbolic act of laying the first stone.The works, which have an execution period of 18 months, will result in a residence with a capacity for 270 students, 70 places which are added to the current residences of Alberto Colao and Calle Caballero, which will be replaced.The preferred users of the residence, located next to the Rectorate building and Campus, will be the students and other members of the UPCT university community.The forecasts with which the Management of the UPCT works is that the academic year 2020-2021 will be the last in which the current Alberto Colao residence is used, whose building will house the offices of the Regional Assembly.As an added value with respect to the current facilities, the new student residence will have a telematic medical care service and Internet access at maximum speed, according to the director of the concessionaire company, as well as a recently-established recreation area.

remodeled by the City Council.The area will have about 2,000 square meters of extension, of which 1,200 will be mixed pedestrian zones and the rest will be a green area, an accessible pedestrian route and an ornamental fountain.

Also including a children's play area.The works of the new student residence will generate more than 100 direct jobs and many others indirectly.

In these works, MiCampus, the company awarded the operation, plans to invest more than 9.5 million euros, according to data provided by Ignacio Baselga, CEO of the company, who promised to use mainly local suppliers.The City Council has invested more than 350,000 euros in the demolition works of the Misericordia transformation center, which has been removed to adapt the Plaza de Sor Francisca Armendáriz.My Campus Residences, a company with more than 20 years of experience and one of the main operators in the sector, currently manages seven residences with more than 2,000 beds in Malaga, Valencia, Seville, Aranjuez, Burgos and Logroño, a figure that it estimates to double with the opening of its new facilities in Barcelona, ??Bilbao, Santander, Madrid, Alicante, Oviedo and Cartagena.

The company obtained the award of the exploitation for 40 years of the future residence of the UPCT last January in exchange for the reform of the building and its exploitation for a service that is considered necessary in the municipality.ScholarshipsThe Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) has launched three calls for scholarships for accommodation and maintenance at the Alberto Colao university residence.

Different profiles for each of them: the 'Talent', aimed at students with excellent records; the DANRU-UPCT, from which high-level athletes can benefit and the ASRU-UPCT, destined for social action.

56 students will be able to benefit from these grants.

Source: UPCT