University of Life Sciences in the mid-eastern city of Lublin is to receive PLN 80 million from the Operation Programme - Development of Eastern Poland for the construction of Innovation and Implementation Centre for New Technologies in Agricultural Engineering.The Centre will be opened in 2013.

The new facility will have specialist laboratories which will meet the needs of several university's departments including Department of Applied Mathematics, Landscape Architecture and Management in Agricultural Engineering.

The investment will jointly require PLN 90 million.

The project is the second investment realised by the University thanks to EU funds allocated in the framework of the Operational Programme - Development of Eastern Poland.

An agreement concerning the financing of the University’s Central Laboratory was signed in March 2009.

(Polish Agency for Enterprise Development)