Overview
- The Provincial Technical Education Fund (Fopet) opens with an initial floor of ARS 3.5 billion to support 172 technical and agrotechnical schools, public and private.
- Provincial leaders say the fund has no ceiling and, in its first stage, sextuples what the nation had been transferring for technical education.
- Schools must submit a Plan de Mejora for approval, receive the transfer, execute and account for spending, then may present subsequent projects.
- Eligible uses include upgrading workshops and laboratories, purchasing equipment and inputs, driving innovation projects, and strengthening professional practice.
- Governor Maximiliano Pullaro announced the program with ministers José Goity and Gustavo Puccini, and the AMET union endorsed the move as key to sustaining operations and job stability.