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BY INVOLVING A RECORD NUMBER OF COMPANIES "LIVE IT PROJECTS" LINKED
PRACTICE AND EDUCATION AND CREATED A UNIQUE EDUCATIONAL PROJECT IN
SLOVAKIA.
Kosice, 20th January 2016 – Teaching at the university is getting a new dimension. 14 sponsors of
business, 116 students in 29 teams and 29 real IT solutions for practice and SCRUM method in
education. By the unique linking of practice and education the project with no precedent in Slovakia
has been created in Kosice IT Valley cluster.
By solving interesting problems from practice project creates conditions for cooperation of students of the
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of TU Kosice directly with prospective employers in business.
Students have opportunities to experience project execution in all phases of the project as well as the
opportunity to understand the importance of created solutions with the commercial potential. On the other hand
there is a transfer of experience from practice to the university and promoting active cooperation between
universities and practice on project basis, leading to mutual motivation leading to improved learning outcomes.
Companies Astound Commerce s.r.o., bart.sk s.r.o., ELCOM, spolocnost s rucenym obmedzenym, Presov, Fpt
Slovakia, s.r.o., GEODETICCA, s.r.o., GlobalLogic Slovakia s.r.o., IBM Slovakia, spol. s r.o., NESS KDC s.r.o,
PWC Avis, s.r.o., Siemens Healthcare s.r.o., Software AG Development Center Slovakia, s.r.o., Secondary
Technical School of Transport, Kosice, T-Systems Slovakia s.r.o. and Wirecard Technologies GmbH are
involved in the projects in its first year.
Cluster, which today represents over 8,500 employees in ICT, actively uses the benefits of linking academia,
public and private sector. "This project represents how education should look like in 21st century. IT in Kosice is
at world level today and it is time to get this level also into education. And that is what we want. It is great that
we have each area represented within cluster, and this project is the beginning of a new era in IT education in
Kosice," says Ivan Hruska, Chairman of the Board Kośice IT Valley and representative of GlobalLogic Slovakia,
one of the sponsors of topics for students.
"Students can bring an exceptional performance if they are properly motivated. Not only students, but everyone
involved in education. Cooperation of students and teachers with experts from industry in Live IT Projects is an
excellent motivator. Students collaborate with the employer, employers get to know teachers and experts from
industry become familiar with education and its specifics. Within the project, students will have the opportunity
to create projects and real life experience in the business environment with its specifications before they are
active in the workforce, where outputs must be prepared otherwise than in the ordinary education,“ says doc.
Ing. Jaroslav Porubän, PhD., Head of the Department of Computers and Informatics, Faculty of Electrical
Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Kosice.
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About Live IT Projects
Team Project "Live IT projects" is a one-semester subject of winter semester which is part of an accreditation of
innovated study programme Informatics. It was taught in the school year 2015/2016 for the first time. This is a
cross-cutting subject and a key objective is to acquire experience and skills in project management, participate
in real projects and their integration with expertise in software engineering that students have acquired in other
subjects.
Four-member teams work on real assignments in partnership with two mentors - one of the Department of
Computers and Informatics (Product Owner for Education) and the second from a particular company (Product
Owner). Project management uses SCRUM framework, commonly used in practice. Final evaluation of the
subject is realised by means of competition.
Kosice IT Valley z.p.o.
Kosice IT Valley Association was established in March 2007 as a joint initiative of educational institutions, government and leading IT
companies. In 2012 it was transformed into the cluster. It currently has 53 members and 3 sympathizers. The main objective of Kosice IT
Valley cluster is to create conditions for the development of the ICT industry, thereby helping to improve the quality of life in Eastern
Slovakia.
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics at the Technical University
of Kosice
Department of Computers and Informatics (KPI) provides training in informatics and information technology since 1989. KPI guarantees and
fully provides education in the curriculum of Informatics at all three levels, namely at bachelor, master and doctoral level study. The object
of education is a broad spectrum of fundamental knowledge and technological skills mainly of the following core areas: computer science,
software engineering, computer engineering, information systems, computer networks. Already more than 3,200 students in undergraduate
and 2,000 students in Master degree study graduated in study programme Informatics.
www.kosiceitvalley.sk
https://kpi.fei.tuke.sk/sk/zaverecna-prezentacia-timovych-projektov
Media contact: Ing. Kristina Kerteszova, Kosice IT Valley z.p.o, kristina.kerteszova@itvalley.sk, 0948 724 859
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