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EDUCATION, QUALIFICATION AND CERTIFICATION OF SERBIAN IT EXPERTS FOR NEEDS OF GERMAN AND EUROPEAN IT MARKET
| Acronym: |
AQUIT_deg |
| Start date: |
January 1, 2003 |
| End date: |
January 1, 2005 |
| Total project value: |
~ 0.4 Million € |
| Project coordinator: |
Steinbeis Advanced Risk-Technologies, Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Jovanovic |
| Total number of partners: |
7 |
| Contact person (name/email): |
Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Jovanovic / jovanovic risk-technologies.com |
| Project webpage R-Tech/EU-VRi: |
http://www.aquit.net/ |
| Official webpage (coordinator): |
http://www.risk-technologies.com/ |
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Main components of the AQUIT project
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Description: AQUIT is a co-operation project between the Steinbeis Foundation Germany and the German organization DEG (Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, member of KfW Banking Group, one of the largest European development finance institutions) addressing the issue of qualification and certification of potential Serbian IT-experts.
Main components of the project are:
• AQUIT Infrastructure
• AQUIT Courses
• AQUIT Roaster of Certified IT experts
• AQUIT (Pilot) Projects
The results of the project can be summarized as:
• Involvement of over 1,200 people (as stakeholders, course participants, lecturers, etc.), 30+ Serbian companies, 20+ German companies, 6 Serbian universities, German and Serbian governments and related agencies
• Preparation of 25 AQUIT courses (covering three main levels: Level I – “Steinbeis Basics” including project management, quality management and business communication, Level II – “General IT Skills/Tools” including programming languages and fundamentals of database systems, and Level III dealing with “Special IT Skills and Tools” needed for specific applications like E-banking, Medical applications, GIS systems, Aerospace industry (CAD), Telecommunications and similar)
• Holding 53 instances of the of the above mentioned AQUIT courses
• Education of 859 attendees of the above mentioned AQUIT courses
• Successful certification of 152 attendees of AQUIT courses (415 certificates issued)
• Application of the AQUIT outsourcing concept in 4 “AQUIT pilot projects” (The outsourcing projects within the main AQUIT project, performed before the closure of the DEG-supported phase of the AQUIT project)
• Establishing of 4 local AQUIT offices in Serbia.
Through these and other AQUIT activities, a number of important economic, social and political benefits for both Germany and Serbia have been achieved, primarily in terms of further European integration of Serbia and Montenegro (indirectly also other countries in the region), and in terms of improvement of the socio-economic position of the participants in AQUIT courses, of the engaged AQUIT local trainers and other IT-professionals in the region. |
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R-Tech Specific Role:
Steinbeis Advanced Risk-Technologies executed the project by preparing the training material and conducting the training in collaboration with the project partners in Serbia and German, coordinating pilot project activities and managing the whole project. |
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Partners’ name/links: Steinbeis, STC Steinbeis Advanced Risk-Technologies, Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Innovation Center of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nis, Innovation Center, University of Novi Sad, Innovation Center, University of Kragujevac, Innovation Center, NIS Petroleum Industry of Serbia |
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