📋 Tender Overview
Two years after the first visit to verify the future facilities of the Science and Technology Center of Luanda CCL the President of the Republic Joo Loureno returned to the site this Thursday August 4 to see up close the degree of execution of the contract which is currently at 75 percent. During the visit President Joo Loureno received detailed explanations about the different phases of the project which after completion will have 230 exhibition modules and will occupy a total area of 6000 square meters.The Science and Technology Center in addition to housing the soap factory has permanent exhibitions and several themed spaces on the culture of various regions of the country.At the end of the visit the minister of Higher Education Science Technology and Innovation Maria do Rosrio Bragana in statements to the press said that the Science and Technology Center is the first of a network of centers that will be built in the country to increase citizens scientific literacy.This center will constitute a significant element to increase the countrys scientific literacy and from there we will gradually build throughout the country a network of science centers. Of course with different complexities from this one but we are going to ensure that science reaches all citizens that it reaches schools from an early age. This is the main objective clarified the minister.For the minister the great difference between the Museum and the Science and Technology Center is that in the center visitors will be able to interact directly with the exhibited pieces while the museum has the characteristic of having its exhibition only for viewing.There is no interaction with the pieces in the museum. Here in the center interaction is mandatory. Therefore this is the big difference between a museum in which in general the pieces are static although there is an explanation But at the Science Center what exists will make the person take action to have the sensations that the module that the element in question allows he reinforced.With completion scheduled for July 2023 the Luanda Science and Technology Center is budgeted at US50 million. Once completed it will employ in the first phase more than 70 people including administrative and technical personnel to accompany the visitors.
