ABOUT THE PROJECT
IT Expert is one of the most important educational initiatives of Lviv IT Cluster. We create and modernize innovational bachelor tech programs through cooperation between Lviv IT companies and universities. Every program created with the support of Lviv IT Cluster is developed by tech companies experts and university professors.
To create and develop a harmonious ecosystem of educational institutions, government and business, which will contribute to the modern training of specialists for the tech industry of the city, country and region.
To improve tech education in Lviv
To provide expert support for universities of Lviv
To train highly qualified IT specialists who do not need further education after their employment
To solve the problems, which Lviv IT Cluster sets, it provides comprehensive and deep interaction with the graduating departments of universities and teachers who teach IT profession disciplines, the ones which are the most important to provide a proper knowledge level of future IT specialists.
Cluster makes a proposition to conclude partnership agreements with the university on the terms that our community will provide:
Lviv IT Cluster is grateful to all IT companies that contributed to launching and supported these programs: PLVision, Ciklum, SoftServe, Eleks, Intellias, Conscensia, Cypress, Perfectial,
KindGeek, Lohika, Vakoms, N-iX, VectorSoftware, V.I.Tech, GlobalLogic, Sombra,
Nravo, Masteram, OTAKOYI, Pingle Studio, Qubstudio, LinkUp Studio, EPAM Ukraine,
Infineon, Avenga, SciForce Solutions, and Chatbots.Studios.
The program aims to combine the interests and needs of all stakeholders to develop and increase the community of mentors who are ready to work on the development of IT education in Lviv.
Our goal is to create a sustainable mentoring program that:
The program’s activities and support will include two key processes: support for mentors from the Lviv IT Cluster and also from IT companies that will join the program.
Mentors Community – is an informal community of IT specialists who join the mentoring of students in the training programs of the Lviv IT Cluster. Each participant can be both a mentor and a student as this community is designed to facilitate the exchange of mentoring experiences, the development of personal skills and the promotion of networking between like-minded people.
Mentors Community participants will receive:
ADVANTAGES OF JOINING THE PROGRAM FROM IT COMPANIES
Each company describes the benefits independently.
We recommend that companies include mentoring students in our curriculum as part of the mentor’s career matrix.
Over the years, Lviv IT Cluster and the supporting IT companies have been actively working on the construction of innovational student labs.
1. Internet of things lab in NULP
Companies that contributed the most are PLVision, SoftServe, Ciklum та Cypress. Other sponsors are Eleks, Sombra, KindGeek, Vakoms, V.I.Tech, Lohika, GlobalLogic, Intellias, N-iX, Conscensia, Perfectial, Vector Software.
2. Infopulse Data Science & Machine Learning Lab in Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Created with the financial support of Infopulse for Data Science & Intelligent Systems students.
3. “Projecting and constructing IoT lab” in NULP
General partners are Sigma Software and SoftServe, exclusive partner PLVision, gold parners Intellias, Perfectial, Conscensia, and silver partner Vakoms.
Besides, Lviv IT Cluster is currently working on Smart Solutions & ІоТ lab in Ivan Franko National University of Lviv supported by Intellias, N-iX , Vakoms.
