During almost two weeks 18 foreign students from Greece, Finland and Lithuania and 10 students from Estonia solved five actual tasks provided by IT company Helmes AS, Tallinn University of Technology and Estonian Information Technology College.

Helmes AS – Information system for registration of driving lessons
Estonian Information Technology College – Security testing of SIS
Estonian Information Technology College – System for giving feedback to students
Estonian Information Technology College – Sailing performance analysis
Tallinn University of Technology – Online program for reflecting Robotex contest results

Lecturers from international higher educational partner institutions, IT College lecturers and involved experts helped to reach the solutions.

IT College international studies specialist Martina Tsänkmann said that during the two week intensive course the participants got great international teamwork experience as well as they got to know closer the cultures of the participating partners. “Profession-specific lectures and practical works of lecturers of international higher educational partner institutions supporting the intensive course gave a significant added value.”

The developed IT solutions were very practical. Prototype solutions or solution proposals were provided. Reaching the functioning solutions presumed from students application of knowledge and skills obtained during different subjects, and teamwork.

IT company Helmes AS was very satisfied with the cooperation and was of the opinion that the developed registration information system for driving lessons could theoretically be the first prototype of bigger solution. “We liked the enthusiasm and capability of the students and we certainly wish to participate also next year,” said the recruitment specialist of Helmes, Kristina Friedberg.

The solution for the task of security testing of Estonian Information Technology College study information system (SIS) is already implemented. “The weaknesses of the study information system detected during the testing are communicated to the developers who immediately eliminated the weaknesses,” noted the IT College lecturer Margus Ernits.

According to IT College lecturer Priit Raspel, the solution for giving feedback to the students is fully implementable. “I intend to test the solution from the next term.”

Development of online reflection of Robotex competition results appeared to be too intensive task to be solved within the framework of the intensive course. At the same time the team considered the analysis of the task’s core as a valuable result.

Presentation of intensive course outcomes was a public event and the recording can be seen from IT College YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/estonianitcollege

04.04.2013 IP “Deploying IT Infrastructure Solutions” team presentations

Estonian Information College is a non-profit professional private higher education institution established by Estonian Information Technology Foundation (EITSA) in 2000 for obtaining professional higher education on study programs of IT system administration, IT system development and information system analysis. Altogether 860 students of who approximately half study at budgetary student places, learn in daily, evening and distant courses in IT College. During ten years, 585 IT specialists have entered the Estonian IT labor market from IT College.

Additional information:

Martina Tsänkmann
International Exchange Specialist of IT College
Mob 56 644 925
Tel 6285 831
Martina.Tsankmann@itcollege.ee

Indrek Rokk
Lecturer of IT College
Tel 6285 849
Indrek.Rokk@itcollege.ee

Press release disclosed by:
Marje Meenov
Marketing Manager
The Estonian Information Technology Foundation/
The Estonian Information Technology College
Tel 6285 817
Marje.Meenov@itcollege.ee
www.eitsa.ee
www.itcollege.ee

04.04.2013 Today the IT students and IT College present the IT solutions developed during the international intensive course

25.03.2013 IT students work out actual IT solutions during an international intensive course in IT College

Intelligent Community Forum https://www.intelligentcommunity.org/

During two weeks, the international teams with 4-8 members solved IT area tasks resulting in either a prototype solution or solution proposal. Reaching the functioning solutions presumed from students application of knowledge and skills obtained during different subjects, and teamwork. “Student teams are active, creative and they reached valuable results,” said IT College lecturer Indrek Rokk. “I believe that the organizations who offered the tasks will be well satisfied.”

“Solving of real tasks in international teams gives all participants a unique teamwork and professional work related experience,” noted the Rector of IT College, Tiit Roosmaa. “I am sure that students having passed such international intensive course have acquired one more very valuable experience before moving to the labor market.”

18 foreign students from Greece, Finland and Lithuania and 10 students from Estonia solved the tasks during the Erasmus intensive course. Lecturers from international partner higher educational institutions, IT College lecturers Indrek Rokk, Margus Ernits, Linnar Viik, Kärt Rummel, Kaido Kikkas as well as involved experts helped to reach the solutions. The working language of the intensive course is English.

The subjects of assignments to be solved during the intensive course:
Helmes AS – Information system for registration of driving lessons
Estonian Information Technology College – Security testing of SIS
Estonian Information Technology College – System for giving feedback to students
Estonian Information Technology College – Sailing performance analysis
Tallinn University of Technology – Online program for reflecting Robotex contest results

Estonian Information College is a non-profit professional private higher education institution established by Estonian Information Technology Foundation (EITSA) in 2000 for obtaining professional higher education on study programs of IT system administration, IT system development and information system analysis. Altogether 860 students of who approximately half study at budgetary student places, learn in daily, evening and distant courses in IT College. During ten years, 585 IT specialists have entered the Estonian IT labor market from IT College.

Additional information:

Martina Tsänkmann
International Exchange Specialist of IT College
Mob 56 644 925
Tel 6285 831
Martina.Tsankmann@itcollege.ee

Indrek Rokk
Lecturer of IT College
Tel 6285 849
Indrek.Rokk@itcollege.ee

Press release disclosed by:
Marje Meenov
Marketing Manager
The Estonian Information Technology Foundation/
The Estonian Information Technology College
Tel 6285 817
Marje.Meenov@itcollege.ee
www.eitsa.ee
www.itcollege.ee

25.03.2013 IT students work out actual IT solutions during an international intensive course in IT College

Students who have successfully passed their first academic year, can test their skills during the intensive week. During two weeks, the international teams with 4-6 members solve IT area tasks resulting in either a prototype solution or solution proposal. Reaching the functioning solutions presumes application of knowledge and skills obtained during different subjects, and teamwork.

18 foreign students from Greece, Finland and Lithuania and 10 students from Estonia will solve the tasks. Lecturers from international partner higher educational institutions, IT College lecturers Indrek Rokk, Margus Ernits, Linnar Viik, Kärt Rummel, Kaido Kikkas as well as involved experts help to reach the solutions. The working language of the intensive course is English.

”Finding solutions for specific, professional tasks in international groups is an ordinary everyday working procedure for people working in ICT field but it is not yet integrated into the learning activities of higher educational institutions,” said IT College lecturer Linnar Viik and he added that, ”this international intensive course in IT College gives our as well as students from other countries an essential experience for further work.”

The subjects of assignments to be solved during the intensive course:
Helmes AS – Information system for registration of driving lessons
Estonian Information Technology College – Security testing of SIS
Estonian Information Technology College – System for giving feedback to students
Estonian Information Technology College – Sailing performance analysis
Tallinn University of Technology – Online program for reflecting Robotex contest results

Presentation of intensive course results is a public event taking place on Thursday, 4 April 2013 at 14:00 in IT College. All interested people, IT students and representatives of the companies are welcome to listen to the presentations. Please register to the event latest by 1 April 2013 at 12:00 HERE.

One of the tasks in year 2012 contest to be solved was, ”Automated configuration of network connections with different networks.” The customer, Ericsson, was satisfied with the result.

For more information about intensive learning weeks and tasks in 2012 and 2011 see IT College wiki page.

Four teams participated in the work of intensive learning week in the spring of 2011. During that time the students updated the operating system Linux used in computer classes, analyzed the possibilities for increasing the speed of network file system in case of bigger number of users, created prototypes for the web applications of small companies with which the companies could manage the customer requests, respond to them and prepare the reports and created the mobile application for viewing the personal timetable.

Estonian Information College is a non-profit professional private higher education institution established by Estonian Information Technology Foundation (EITSA) in 2000 for obtaining professional higher education on study programs of IT system administration, IT system development and information system analysis. Altogether 860 students of who approximately half study at budgetary student places, learn in daily, evening and distant courses in IT College. During ten years, 585 IT specialists have entered the Estonian IT labor market from IT College.

Additional information:

Martina Tsänkmann
Counsellor, Distance Education and International Exchange of IT College
Mob 56 644 925
Tel 6285 831
Martina.Tsankmann@itcollege.ee

Indrek Rokk
Lecturer of IT College
Tel 6285 849
Indrek.Rokk@itcollege.ee

Press release disclosed by:
Marje Meenov
Marketing Manager
The Estonian Information Technology Foundation/
The Estonian Information Technology College
Tel 6285 817
Marje.Meenov@itcollege.ee
www.eitsa.ee
www.itcollege.ee

Page 37-39 Tiger Leap – A Unique Estonia IT Programme
The Estonian IT programme Tiger Leap is probably know all around the world. Having been involved in the programme from the word go, Linnar Viik, today a lecturer at IT College, is the right person to explain the nuts and bolts of the programme.

Page 40-41 Estonian IT College: The Axis Between High-Tech Know-How And Practical Needs

PDF of the magazine:http://www.investinestonia.com/images/PDF/LIE_winter2012-2013_ISSUU.pdf

Life in Estonia is a quarterly magazine in English, which covers all Estonian walks of life – from economy to society, from culture to tourism. It focuses on in-depth coverage rather than short news value.

Life in Estonia is directed to all readers who are interested in Estonia. Each issue has a specific emphasis on certain topics like ICT, personal medicine, energy, etc. The science and economy subjects are covered in close co-operation with the Estonian Investment and Trade Agency.

The magazine is published by Positive Projects OÜ and distributed by Estonian Investment Agency.

”The X-mas present of InfoBuild Estonia OÜ to Estonian Information Technology College gives us a very good opportunity to increase the professional skills and knowledge of our graduates based on the most updated software and hence give the labor market even better prepared specialists,” said the Rector of IT College, Tiit Roosmaa.

The idea to present IT College the iWay Datamigrator software came from the alumna of IT College with the wish to make the data warehousing subject more interactive and interesting by providing different approaches to the data transfer solutions in the practical training of the subject.

The representative of InfoBuild Eesti, Rivo Uibo who graduated from the IT College in 2009 recognised that ”Up to now much emphasis is put specially on teaching the systems dealing with data collection but the value chain should not end there. Specially these data hide all kind of valuable information about different connections which help us to understand the causes of occurred events and enable better planning of activities and optimization of resources. I believe that the signed contract helps to make the data warehousing syllabus in IT College even more practical by providing the students additional knowledge to their expertise.”

IT College is grateful for the software for academic use.

”We really appreciate it when the IT sector companies can and consider it necessary to contribute to the improvement of study process and it is very pleasant to recognize that such proposals are made by our alumna,” noted the Quality Manager of IT College, Merle Varendi.

iWay DataMigrator is an extensive and fully automated tool set with the aim to facilitate the data integration including creation, management and expansion of data warehouses, data marts and operational data stores. With its simple and user friendly user interface, DataMigrator enables fast and flexible creation and management of data transfer processes. The distinctive feature of iWay DataMigrator is the fact that the software can be applied on platform of any operation system and it is capable to connect to all kinds of data structures used inside the organizations.

InfoBuild Estonia OÜ is a leading company specialising on business analytics, data warehousing and information system integration solutions. InfoBuild represents globally recognized IT Group Information Builders Inc in Estonian market. The solutions of the company are used in such companies like Police and Border Guard Board, Estonian Post, Tallink Ggroup, Estonian Environmental Services, etc InfoBuild Estonia belongs to United Software Distributors group (USD).

Estonian Information College is a non-profit professional private higher education institution established by Estonian Information Technology Foundation EITSA in 2000 for obtaining professional higher education on study programs of IT system administration, IT system development and information system analysis. Altogether 940 students of who approximately half study at budgetary student places, learn in daily, evening and distant courses in IT College. During ten years, 571 IT specialists have entered the Estonian IT labor market from IT College.

Additional information:

Tiit Roosmaa
Rector of IT College
E-mail: tiit.roosmaa@itcollege.ee

Merle Varendi
Quality Manager of IT College
Phone +372 6285 812
E-mail: merle.varendi@itcollege.ee

Rivo Uibo
InfoBuild Estonia OÜ Sales Manager
Mob phone+372 56 29 9790
E-mail: Rivo.Uibo@infobuild.fi
www.infobuild.ee

Press release disclosed by:
Marje Meenov
Marketing Manager of IT College
E-mail: marje.meenov@itcollege.ee
www.itcollege.ee

Members of Neve team were: Kristjan Mölder, Valdur Kaldvee, Erik Kaju and Laur Mõtus.
Instructor: Margus Ernits

Altogether 22 teams participated in Robotex 2012 football competition in professional class.

Congratulations to the victorious team and all members of IT College Robotics club!

IT College Robotics club is grateful to Helmes for support!

Information forwarded by:

Marje Meenov
Marketing Manager of IT College
E-mail: Marje.Meenov@itcollege.ee

The lecture is held in English and takes place in IT College study building in Mustamäe, Raja 4C, auditorium 314. In case of interest, please register HERE.

There will be a live broadcast from the public lecture at IT College home page www.itcollege.ee

Short Summary

Diane Bisgeier, Program Manager of Mozilla’s WebFWD Open Innovation program: “Nearly a decade ago, the Internet was a scary place. The primary way that people could access the web was through Internet Explorer, which had gained over 95% market share after edging out the industry’s incumbent, Netscape Navigator, by bundling its browser with its operating system. Innovation was stifled and users not only experienced a poor product – pop-up windows, phishing and poor user interface – but also little choice in how they could connect and communicate with others. Determined that the Internet was too important to let languish or stay in the hands of one corporate entity, Mozilla was born to change this. In 2004, Firefox was born out of this vision to give users control over their web experience. Since then, the Mozilla community has been comprised paid staff and volunteers and contributors around the world developing new ways for people to not only consume but create the Internet that serves users above corporate interest. I will share more about this community, and how you can be involved in the next important phase of the Internet.”

Read more: webfwd.org

Distinguished experts and theoreticians of the information technology area deliver the series of public lectures in IT College with the aim to introduce to the students as well as the public at large essential concepts, developments and theories of information and telecommunication technology. The lectures are not intended as an introduction of a company or product or as a marketing event. The events are free and open to all interested people. It is possible to see the recording of the lecture in IT College website (www.itcollege.ee/avalikud-loengud/)

IT College is a non-profit professional private higher education institution established by Estonian Information Technology Foundation EITSA in 2000 for obtaining professional higher education on study programs of IT system administration, IT system development and information system analysis. Altogether 950 students of who approximately half study at budgetary student places, learn in daily, evening and distant courses in IT College. During ten years, 571 IT specialists have entered the Estonian IT labor market from IT College.

Information forwarded by:

Marje Meenov
Marketing Manager of IT College
E-mail: marje.meenov@itcollege.ee
www.itcollege.ee

The lecture is held in English and takes place in IT College study building in Mustamäe, Raja 4C, auditorium 316. In case of interest, please register HERE.

There will be a live broadcast of the lecture on IT College webpage www.itcollege.ee

Short Summary:
IT is not just about engineering but offers job opportunities in versatile business functions. These are special features of the industry that the IT branch rarely talks about. We’ll first look at some tough characteristics and fundamental conditions that make a company survival hard. Then we focus on a number of profound, disruptive, rule-breaking changes, and transformative and irresistible forces taking place today, like mobile, cloud, social and big data. These will alter the way that businesses – and even cities and whole societies – operate. We examine select key developments and explain why they are so important – and provide view on the innovations shaping the future.

Glen Koskela, Chief Technology Officer of Fujitsu Nordic
Read more: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/tech/cto/fi/

Distinguished experts and theoreticians of the information technology area deliver the series of public lectures in IT College with the aim to introduce to the students as well as the public at large essential concepts, developments and theories of information and telecommunication technology. The lectures are not intended as an introduction of a company or product or as a marketing event. The events are free and open to all interested people. It is possible to see the recording of the lecture in IT College website (www.itcollege.ee/avalikud-loengud/)

IT College is a non-profit professional private higher education institution established by Estonian Information Technology Foundation EITSA in 2000 for obtaining professional higher education on study programs of IT system administration, IT system development and information system analysis. Altogether 963 students of who approximately half study at budgetary student places learn in daily, evening and distant courses in IT College. During ten years, 571 IT specialists have entered the Estonian IT labor market from IT College.

Additional information:
Anneli Lille, HR Manager
Fujitsu Services Eesti
Tel +372 6272 308
Mob +372 53 422 896
E-mail: Anneli.Lille@eefujitsu.com
www.fujitsu.com/ee/

Information forwarded by:
Marje Meenov
Marketing Manager of IT College
E-mail: Marje.Meenov@itcollege.ee
www.eitsa.ee
www.itcollege.ee

The third intensive study week will be held in March 2013 (from 24 March to 4 April 2013) with the primary aim to create possibilities for the students to test their knowledge and skills in solving the actual tasks. The prerequisite for the solutions is application of knowledge and skills obtained from different subjects. During two weeks the international teams with 5-6 members solve IT area tasks resulting in either a prototype solution or solution proposal. The students solving the tasks come from Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Greece and Sweden. The lecturers of IT College and the involved experts assist students in reaching the solution.

We welcome all companies who wish to

• gain solutions for their tasks and problems;
• get to know better the IT College students as their future colleagues;
• contribute to the development of IT education;
• consolidate the cooperation between the company and IT College.

This year one of the tasks to be solved was ”Automated configuration of network connections with different networks.” The customer, Ericsson, was satisfied with the result.

For information about intensive study weeks in 2012 and 2011 see intensive study week wiki page of IT College.

The ideas of tasks and problems of the companies are expected by 1 December 2012 to lecturer Indrek Rokk.
Indrek.Rokk@itcollege.ee, phone: 6285 849, 503 6573.

Intensive learning week of 2013 is partially financed from the Erasmus program as well as project “The renewal of the Estonian IT College’s main syllabuses in cooperation with enterprises, creating and activating a cooperation model based on the labor market needs” of SA Archimedes sub-measure “Cooperation between higher educational institutions and enterprises“ of measure “Cooperation between higher educational institutions and development of innovation”.