About 90 rooms for 150 beds in INPS properties. The buildings will be managed by DiSCo
New university residences are on the way thanks to a memorandum of understanding between INPS, the Lazio Region and Roma Capitale. The agreement provides for the creation of a public partnership for the redevelopment and use of public buildings owned by the social security institution to be used as university residences. The project - to which the regional councilor for Economic Development, Commerce and Handicraft, University, Research, Startup and Innovation Paolo Orneli, the councilor for urban planning of Roma Capitale, Maurizio Veloccia and the central credit management worked jointly, Welfare and Social Structures of the INPS - specifically concerns two properties in Ostia, owned by the former Enam Magistral Assistance Fund managed by INPS, in which about 90 rooms used as university students will be created for a total of 150 beds, with a part reserved for the children of members of the Magistral Assistance Fund ex Enam.
INPS has already started the construction site for the renovation and maintenance of the building in via Lungomare Paolo Toscanelli 200, while DiSCo - the regional body for the Right to Study and the Promotion of Knowledge - will purchase the furnishings and completely redevelop the second building in Largo delle Sirene 5. According to the memorandum of understanding, both buildings will be managed by DiSCo for 25 years.
"The initiative is part of an operation wanted by the Region and started three years ago with the birth of the Engineering course for marine technologies at Roma Tre, and which continues today with the construction of new university residences . This will make Ostia a center of excellence in the field of higher education unique in Italy, socially and culturally enhancing an area of great potential. Another important signal that we want to send to the university world and to all the young people who choose our region to cement knowledge and create the foundations for their future work ”, said the President of the Lazio Region, Nicola Zingaretti.
"Today, an important piece is added to the plan for the enhancement of INPS properties for social purposes, which in recent years we have been carrying out in a context of great collaboration with other institutions and various local bodies" declared the President of INPS Pasquale Tridico . "Together with the sale of properties, in fact, we try to create a virtuous circuit for operations intended for social purposes, and with this significant collaboration with the Region and the Municipality of Rome we contribute to the country's strategies for the development of high skills and enhancement of structures in the area ".
“This collaboration agreement between institutions allows us to take another important step towards the city we want: a Rome that is increasingly the capital of knowledge, a city capable of offering opportunities, places and services to young people and that strengthens the right to study. Furthermore, redeveloping these properties in Ostia to build new university residences is a decisive message of attention, stimulation and revitalization of the sea view of our city, to continue to enhance the vocation linked to the higher education of this area, which has great potential in which we will continue to invest decisively ”, declared the Mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri.