Academy387, an educational centre within the technological park HUB387 starts with unique educational programs with the goal to create fast a new professional staff in the ICT sector as well as to educate additionally the IT sector that already exists, in accordance with the actual world trends.
“Academy387 is a new concept of transferring knowledge and skills created according to the most successful American educational platforms. The goal is to qualify the staff as soon as possible for the challenges in their business environment and to make them competitive on the labour market.” – says Ines Avdić, coordinator of the program in Academy387.
Currently, the Academy387 points out a program entitled “How to learn, work and teach web-development in a stimulative way”, which is created in cooperation with an eminent professor from New York Charles Munat, who is one of the founders of the American educational program “General Assembly”. Charles Munat teaches over twenty years in the IT sector at the colleges around the world.
“The primary goal of this program is to create a new generation of teachers and the candidates don’t even have to be experienced programmers. All it takes is to love technology and teaching. The program is focused on creating skills, and not the classic knowledge transfer. Thanks to internet we can find knowledge quickly today while making skills needs practice.” – says Charles Munat.
Besides increasing the number of new programmers, the goal of this program is to emancipate its participants in a way that they turn out teachers themselves and to develop skills in them that they will use in order to transfer knowledge to the new generations efficiently.
This program was so far held in three capitals in the world: New York, Hong Kong and London.
“We believe that these programs are necessary. We try hard to use our contacts in the world so we can ameliorate the Bosnian IT sector and qualify as many people as possible. We would like to qualify and hire many people and make this industry one of the most perspective ones in B&H” – says Edin Šarčević, the founder of the HUB387 and the Academy387.
Applications for this program are open, and it begins officialy on September 22th and October 27th 2014.
The quality of this project was recognized by the Municipality Novi Grad and has ensured participation of 500 BAM for every participant of this municipality.
The host of this event, HUB387, is the first technological park in the centre of Sarajevo. The concept of the HUB387 is to gather the regional IT community in order to build a more potent IT eco-system by inciting the cooperation, the incubation and a faster transfer of knowledge as well as to create a climate which encourages innovations and entrepreneurship.
(Source: Radio Sarajevo)
