Vila - Famalicão Student Residence opens its doors on July 9, City Day, and the first phase of applications for accommodation starts next Tuesday, July 1.
In this first phase, applications are aimed at displaced scholarship students who are attending bachelor's, higher technical and master's degree courses at higher education establishments based in Vila Nova de Famalicão in the 2024/2025 academic year and students who are attending bachelor's, higher technical and master's degree courses and who received supplementary accommodation away from home during the 2024/2025 academic year, and who want accommodation for the 2025/2026 academic year.
Applications must be submitted on the “Famalicão Mais” portal, at https://famalicaomais.pt/.
The Student Residence's normal accommodation period begins on 1 September. The monthly fee for the 2025/2026 academic year is 91.44 euros for scholarship students, 261.25 euros for non-scholarship students and 365.75 euros for researchers.
The criteria for assessing applications can be found in the Village's operating regulations, available for consultation at www.famalicao.pt.
After this first phase, there will be a second phase of applications from 25 to 31 of August and a third phase from September 15.
The results will be announced according to the following schedule: first phase, by August 11; second phase, by September 12 and third phase, according to the date the application was submitted.
Mário Passos: ‘Inauguration of the Vila on City Day is full of symbolism’
The inauguration of the Town is scheduled for 10h00 on July 9, the 40th anniversary of Famalicão's elevation to City status.
For the Mayor, Mário Passos, the inauguration of the Village - Student Residence on this day is full of symbolism. "It's a reaffirmation of what we want to be: a city open to knowledge, which grows and welcomes dreams. A city of opportunities for all," he says.
The municipality's first Student Residence will have capacity for 91 residents, spread over 53 rooms of five different types, including single and double rooms and studios and rooms adapted for people with reduced mobility.
Located right in the centre of the city, in Praça D. Maria II, the Vila will serve the four higher education institutions established in the municipality: Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário (CESPU), Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave (IPCA), Universidade do Minho and Universidade Lusíada.
The infrastructure is the result of the refurbishment and extension of the former municipal environmental services building, in Praça D. Maria II, and involved an investment of around 5 million euros, 3.4 million of which came from the National Plan for Accommodation in Higher Education (PNAES) supported by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), in partnership with the Erasmus+ Education and Training National Agency.
