Expected outputs
The BIT2010 project will design and implement a new BA curriculum in IT and will prepare its graduates for the unique challenges faced by today's technology companies and industries. The project will also train these graduates to become tomorrow’s technological leaders. The teaching and learning in the program will be focused on collaborative working, creativity, multidisciplinarity, adaptability, intercultural communication and problem solving. Due to the module based structure of the curriculum, high scale flexibility for the students will be achieved.
Project data
All over the world there is a lack of specialists in the ICT field and the number of needed specialists will dramatically increase in the next years. Students from several European countries will benefit from this project, because the program is planned as a joint bachelor degree program. The European-wide availability of this study will especially benefit students in the new EU-members-states and in less developed countries where few and often outdated laboratories are available today. The partners in this project proposal involved, over a long time are cooperating in the field of online laboratories.
Recently, on June 1st 2005, the Commission adopted the initiative "i2010 initiative-European Information Society 2010" to foster growth and jobs in the information society and media industries in EU.
Member States are asked to define National Information Society Priorities in their National Reform Programmes in mid-October 2005 to contribute to the objectives of i2010. The profile of ICT industry's needs for Degree Qualifications depicting new curricula which combine elements of traditional engineering and informatics programmes. As a result, the universities have "to meet the needs of the ICT industry to create and develop new curricula which contain elements from electrical engineering, elements from informatics, and a significant focus on the teaching, training and practicing of behavioral and business skills" www.career-space.com.
The project is aiming to contribute to the IT human resource development, within the context of the Bologna Process and "i2010 Initiative".