DILI, 24 April 2025 (TATOLI) – The Human Capital Development Fund (FDCH-Portuguese) has signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement with the Polytechnic ATMI Surakarta for the provision of scholarships to Timorese individuals wishing to pursue further studies in Indonesia.
The cooperation agreement was officially signed by the FDCH’s Executive Director, Júlio Aparício, and the ATMI representative, Andreas Sugijopranoto, at the FDCH office in Dili.
The objective of this agreement is to support human resource development through the provision of scholarships for Timorese individuals to pursue studies at ATMI, in the fields of manufacturing, mechanics, and industrial engineering.
Director Aparício said that with the signing of the agreement, ATMI will receive 15 Timorese students this year under the FDCH’s scholarships to pursue a Diploma IV, which is equivalent to the first year of a bachelor’s degree.
It is worth recalling that last year the government offered scholarships to 92 individuals to deepen their knowledge at academic institutions in five countries, including Portugal, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.
The scholarship program, one of the government’s initiatives to promote the development of national human resources in strategic areas, is coordinated by the Ministry of Planning and Strategic Investment and managed by the FDCH.
Last year, the government also approved a draft Decree-Law on the special scholarship scheme for the justice sector.
The scholarship scheme is intended to fund higher education courses in the civil system to obtain bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in legal sciences, training in forensic medicine, professional training actions, specialized training for trainees at the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, and professional internships for the exercise of a profession.
The program will be financed by the Human Capital Development Fund (FDCH) and managed by the Justice Sector Reform Working Group under the direction of the Prime Minister.
More than 10,000 Timorese students have benefitted from FDCH scholarships since 2011.
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