On September 24, in Lviv, Faculty of Applied Sciences UCU and a leading digital authority SoftServe have signed a Memorandum of Strategic Partnership.
The Parties made a commitment to cooperate in Faculty scientific fields, methodological educational proposals, experience exchange and scientific breakthroughs, in particular:
- SoftServe will provide significant financial support for Faculty development.
- SoftServe will become a sponsor of numerous research projects per year. For this purpose, the UCU-SoftServe Research Group will be created within the Faculty’s Machine Learning Lab. The Group will involve faculty, students, staff and SoftServe R&D engineers in order to collaborate on research projects.
- SoftServe will launch a new Deep Reinforcement Learning course at the Faculty of Applied Sciences UCU. SoftServe top experts in research and development will share the latest trends on the AI and machine learning discipline while developing and mentoring the course
“SoftServe is one of our most valuable partners, as the company has joined from the early stage of Faculty of Applied Sciences creation, 4 years ago. We have been systematically collaborating on numerous initiatives since then. Many students from our faculty have continued their professional development as SoftServe employees, and the company’s experts are frequent lecturers on our programs,” mentioned Yaroslav Prytula, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences of UCU. “ I am extremely pleased that our cooperation is large-scale growth-oriented. I am sure it will provide more opportunities for our students and faculty to learn, develop and build careers.”
“Technical education development and support are one of the main areas in SoftServe corporate social responsibility,” mentioned Yaroslav Lyubinets, Chairman of the Board, at SoftServe. “We understand the importance of business contribution to provide young people with the necessary knowledge and skills that will enable them to start and successfully develop their careers. Moreover, being an engineer is not just a profession but also a way of thinking in which he tries to find the best way to solve the problems he sees around. The more such “engineers” will be in a new Ukrainian generation, the more likely we will reach the global goals our country is currently facing.”
The Strategic Partnership Memorandum shall be enacted on the day when it is signed. It will be valid until Sept. 30, 2021. Every July, the faculty and the company will hold an annual reporting meeting to discuss the results of the partnership and vision for the coming year.
Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) is a modern, private university in Lviv living the Eastern Christian tradition and forming leaders to serve with professional excellence in Ukraine and internationally
Founded in 2016, Faculty of Applied Sciences UCU offers modern technical education in three areas: Bachelor’s Degree Programs in Computer Science, Information Technology and Business Analytics, and a Master’s Degree Program in Data Science. Statistical analysis, machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, business analytics are the main directions of the scientific work of the faculty are. In 2019, according to the DOU rating, the faculty was recognized as the best educational institution in the field of information technology in Ukraine. The Master’s Degree Program in Data Science is ranked among the best data science and business analytics programs in Europe.
SoftServe is a leading Ukrainian digital authority that advises and provides at the cutting-edge of technology.
SoftServe is one of the largest software companies in Central and Eastern Europe, ranked among the top three IT-companies in Ukraine. More than 8000 employees work in the European and American offices of the company located in 12 countries. Company’s development centers are located in Lviv, Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Sofia (Bulgaria) and Wroclaw, Gliwice, and Bialystok (Poland). A number of business offices are located in the USA and Western Europe.
