Ukrainians in Finland and National Educational Reform

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Ukrainians in Finland and National Educational
Reform

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Ukrainians from KNURE in Finland

• HELSINGIN SANOMAT,
• Saska Snellman
• Ukrainan tieteen muuttolinnut

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Double-Degree Programmes

• Partners
• University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• Vrije University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Numbers about 100 students during
• 2000 2007
• Specialties ISPR Mobile Computing / Artificial
  Intelligence

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Double-Degree Programmes Key-elements

• Concordance of Curricula !!!
• Joint Trainings supervision
• Double (Engineer Master) Thesis work
• Joint supervision (Distance mode)
• Course Assignments
• Financial support Grants versus part-time jobs !
• Teachers exchange (Tempus project frame)
• Formalities / Paper work

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Success story examples
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Quality to support Quantity

• Very first Laudatur in the history of IT
  faculty and it was not the only one !
• 83 of Master Theses - at least magna

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Success story Telia-Sonera Awards 2004
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Success story there is more !

• 13 Ph.D. Degrees so far at the JY (gt 1.4 M Euro)
  !
• About 300 referred scientific papers !
• Ukrainian Research projects ( gt 2 M Euro )
• Employment Ukraine, Finland, The Netherlands,
  United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, Switzerland,
  Malta

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Innovation Incubator Nokia / JKL Science Park /
Agora Center
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Examples F-Secure, Helsinki, FinlandFuncom,
Oslo, Norway
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Lessons learned Reforms in Ukrainian HE are
desperately needed

• ECTS Reform
• Degree Structure / Curricula Development
• Accreditation and Ranking Reform
• Quality Assurance System Development
• Students / Teachers / Researchers Mobility
• University Industry Relations Reform
• New Financial Schemes and Models

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ECTS Reform

• Distance mode credits
• Modules, no semester controls
• Summer school credits
• Invited speakers
• Trainings abroad
• Ms.Th. Defense (GEK) languages

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Ranking Reform

• International individual and institutional
  ranking Hirsch factor, Shanghai metrics
• Teaching abroad
• Double / Joint - Degree Programmes
• EU / International Projects
• Publications

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Quality Assurance Reform

• Invited Host Teachers
• Licenses for Joint Master Programmes
• International Dimension (Shanghai metrics)
• Double Thesis supervision

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Students / Teachers / Researchers Mobility

• Legislation and financial schemes
• Merits recognition
• European curricula (content)
• Degree requirements
• Scholarships/salaries to be paid abroad
• Language studies

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Accreditation Reform

• Transparency
• Confidentiality / Trust
• Easy Access for the society (all levels)
• International Ranking
• Multiple criteria classification
• Quality Assurance ?
• Solution Modern Intelligent Technologies

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Degree Structure / Curricula Development

• 3 2 Degree Structure !
• Adopted European Curricula !
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ACM / IEEE / Career Space Computing and ICT
Curricula

• Universities Consortium
• UK, Sweeden, Finland, Greece, France, Austria,
  Spain, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Denmark,
  Italy, Israel, USA, New Zeeland, Australia, Japan

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Societies input into CD

• European Commission DG Enterprise
• European Commission DG Education and Culture
• ACM
• EICTA European ICT Industry Association
• CEN / ISSS European Standardization Committee
• Eurel European National Societies of EE

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Industries input into CD

• Cisco Systems
• IBM Europe
• Intel
• Microsoft Europe
• Nokia
• Nortel Networks
• Philips Semiconductors
• Siemens AG
• Telefonica
• Thales
• British Telecom

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Industry University Relations

• Key-element
• Curricula Development !
• Dilemma SMI IT experts ?

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ATOM 47 Millions Transistors
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Reasonable solution

• Innovative Universities
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• http//www.zn.ua/3000/3300/54763/
• Centers of Excellence
• Research-based teaching
• European Curricula
• Innovation Incubators

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Official Recognition

• Bologna Conference Student Mobility in the
  European Higher Education Area 2010, March 17th -
  18th, 2005 in Bad Honnef, Germany
• http//eu.daad.de/eu/bologna/bologna-germany/veran
  staltungen/05672.html

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Business Incubators European Virtual Venturing

• France (ITIN) Finland (Kemi-Tornio
  Polytechnic) Ukraine (KNURE)
• Chambers of Commerce
• WiMAX Technology Multimedia Technologies,
  Distance mode (Skype. MSN, ICQ, Videoconferences)
• International, Intercultural, Interdisciplinary
  Students Teams
• Round tables with local ICT companies

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Our proposals to the Reform of National Education
and Science

• http//www.cs.jyu.fi/ai/Ukrainian_Summary
• http//www.cs.jyu.fi/ai/Quality.ppt