Liberios Vokorokos
Technical University of Košice
Slovakia
How to attract research and teaching funding from
Private and Public institutions
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Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
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Innovation trends, research and used technologies
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Košice IT Valley association
Focuses primary on ICT and is the main interconnection between
our university and private sector
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Specialized laboratories
Result of KE IT Valley build at TU
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Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
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Founded in 1952
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A Central - European Leader in many
specializations
Robotics, networking, speech recognition,
CISCO NetAcademy
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Active cooperation with foreign partner
universities
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Co-operates with industrial organizations
and companies
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Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
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Second largest technical university in
Slovakia
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An East - Slovakian Region Leader in
education and research
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Provides training courses for alumni from
almost private sector
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Employees from private companies have
often the opportunity to educate our
students to prepare them better for praxis
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Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
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Personal staff at TU Ke:
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1100 academic teachers
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2 000 employees in total
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18 000 students (cca. 3000 of
whom are first-year students)
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Over 44 000 graduates in total
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Over 1 200 post-graduates (PhD) in
total
Košice
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Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
9 faculties:
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Informatics
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Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process
Control and Geotechnology
Faculty of Metallurgy
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Faculty of Economics
Faculty Manufacturing Technologies
Faculty of Arts
Faculty of Aeronautics
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Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
The university offers three types of full-time
and part-time courses:
•Bachelor's Degree course (3 years)
leading to degree Bc.
•Master's Degree course (2 years)
leading to degree Ing.
•Doctoral Study course (3 years)
leading to degree PhD.
The university has the competence to perform
habilitation proceedings and the procedure for
appointing professors
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Innovation, Research, Technologies
Innovation:
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eLearning and teleEducation, Online Seminars
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Collaborative software
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Course Management Systems, Wikies
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Videoconferencing, IPTV solutions (streamings)
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Blogs, Podcasts, IM,
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Social networking software and sites,
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Digital assessments methods
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Studio Classrooms
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Innovation, Research, Technologies
Research and educational programs:
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International research programs (funding from EU programs, public and
private sector)
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6th (7th in preparation) Framework Programme
PRO Active Actions for NMS
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TEMPUS Program
Adaptive Information and Comm. Technologies for Education of Visually Implaired
Students
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Leonardo da Vinci Program
E-Learning Distance Interactive Practical Education
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Socrates Intensive Program
Learning Enhanced by Virtual Reality
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Innovation, Research, Technologies
Technologies and products:
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„up-to-date“ software and hardware
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Advanced technologies: parallel computer systems, grid computing, sensorbased systems, emerging networks solution and services based on Cisco
Networking Academy Program
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Microsoft products:
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MS Windows XP and Windows Server Operating Systems
MS Visual Studio
MS Office suite, MS Project
Windows Live!
MSDN alliance
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Košice IT Valley association
Košice IT Valley association was introduced to the public on January 2007
Primary goal - to establish the Centre of Excellence for information and
communication technology in the region of Eastern Slovakia
Activities are in the field of :
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social and economic development
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education and employment in the region
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research and development in the IT
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Košice IT Valley association
IT Valley founding members:
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Technical University of Košice
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Košice self-governing region
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Microsoft Slovakia
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Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice
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T-Systems Slovakia
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VSE ITservices
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Cisco Systems Slovakia
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Ixonos Slovakia
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Siemens PSE
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INTAS
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NESS Slovakia
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Elcom
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Slovak Telekom
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Elfa
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RWE Systems Slovakia
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Košice IT Valley association
Responsibilities of Technical University of Košice in IT Valley association:
To prepare (educate, re-train) new IT specialists, who will be competent in hard as
well as in soft skills in the frame of new IT technologies and who will be able to
satisfy needs of employers. A part of this priority is to prepare content for this
educational program.
To prepare design and implement a common IT infrastructure for IT education at Košice
universities which will be able to satisfy current educational needs of members and other
IT companies.
To enhance access to the infrastructure and to upgrade the content of educational program
to technical colleges and high schools of the region and to prepare educational program
also for high schools and colleges.
To increase overall level of motivation of the young generation for study
in IT area and at Košice university.
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Specialized laboratories
One form of public - private partnership is the co-creation of specialized laboratories, used
for education purposes within TU and also for training courses for private sector employees.
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Conclusion
Region of Košice has strong potential in research and training capabilities
for IT specialists with adequate technical, instructor, know-how and content
background.
Functional and complex TUKE research and training model involves a partnership
between academic and private institutions.
The educational process should also fulfil needs of private sector, which means the
need of tight interconnection of academic sector and private institutions in
educational process.
Košice IT Valley – good example of this tight interconnection
Thank You for Your attention
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