According to Luís Loures, president of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), the institution is now working on more than 50 research and innovation projects, with the total financing exceeding 30 million euros, the most prevenient from international funding. Moreover, three doctorates at IPP were approved, as announced by Luís Loures, who sees these accomplishments as "a demonstration of the institution's capacity”.

As one of the guardianship prerequisites to allow the name change to Polytechnic University, Luís Loures views the acceptance of these study cycles as having “strategic importance”. As he explained, “We continue to grow, requalify and expand our educational infrastructures, our residences and student support equipment. We currently have ongoing construction, expansion and requalification works on buildings that amount to more than 22 million euros”.

The IPP has more than four thousand students, which Luís Loures says to be a “remarkable number”, and which has a “significant impact” on the area. The IPP president also shared that “if all goes according to plan” the schools will have “more than 600 beds” for students in Portalegre and Elvas by the end of the current academic year.