The future campus is going to be big enough for 5,000 students and is part of the government’s strategy to “attract knowledge, skills and activity to the city and make it more attractive “, officials predicted this week.
Following the conclusion of the licensing process and the award of the work, the Fundação Alfredo de Sousa is going to start building and expects the campus to be ready in the first quarter of 2018, so it can start teaching activities the academic year after that.
Cascais already has two university centres, Escola de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril (for the tourist industry) and Escola Superior de Saúde de Alcoitão (for health care), and it expects to have six faculties and 20,000 students “by 2018 or 2020, at the maximum”, the Town Hall said.