Three student IT labs were handed over on Wednesday at the University of Debrecen (UD); the development was carried out in a consortium between the Government Informatics Development Agency, the Association of Informatics Telecommunications and Electronics Enterprises and the Ministry of Innovation and Technology (ITM).
Balázs Károly Solymár, Deputy State Secretary for ITM Digitization, said at the handover ceremony: 19 Hungarian universities providing IT training will support IT laboratory and curriculum developments with domestic and EU funding at 681 million HUF, Program Program your future! as part of a project.
The three student laboratories set up at UD cost about 60 million forints, the national program will be completed by the end of 2022, the Deputy Secretary of State added, noting that the second student IT laboratory was handed over in Debrecen after Veszprém.
Strengthening IT training and increasing the number of students is of paramount importance to the government, which is why they decided to Program Your Future! They also support the training with tools – indicated Balázs Károly Solymár.
He said, thanks to the new labs now handed over, students will be able to take an internationally recognized professional exam after completing the courses, and this otherwise expensive exam certificate can be obtained for free upon completion of the courses. Thanks to the student labs, it is also possible to train not only students but also university lecturers.
Cisco student labs, which primarily support engineering IT training, offer high-level subjects such as networking, IT security, computer network design, enterprise networking solutions and services, computer network operations, and network measurement technology. – András Hajdu, Dean of the Faculty of Informatics, explained the details.
Ailer Piroska, Deputy Rector of UD, called it a great challenge for higher education institutions providing quality theoretical knowledge to equip students with knowledge that can be utilized in practice and adapted to the needs of the economy, both in the technical and IT fields.
In this process, he called important student internships at companies, dual training, and student laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art hardware and software.
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