The STIKK Education Advisory Board held its second meeting
The STIKK Education Advisory Board met for the second time on the 14th of January, 2016, at the STIKK Office. This Advisory Board, which includes members of STIKK, aims to support in the training programme development, and to ensure that the preparation of the STIKK Education beneficiaries will suit the needs of ICT companies in Kosovo.
The three IT profiles which STIKK Education will be based on are:
– IT Management
– Software Engineering
– Mobile Development
STIKK, an external curricula expert, and the Advisory Board are working on the curricula which will be used in order to address the issue young people are facing during training and professional development. The vision of this initiative is to raise the local capacities in the ICT sector through professional trainings, designed specifically to meet the needs of the local sector, nevertheless by being in line with international technology trends.
STIKK Education will implement 2 training cycles and other supplementary project activities as foreseen in the activity plan below in a 12-month period 2015–2016. Through the trainings, the young IT enthusiasts will gain specific skill-sets that are currently key on the local and European Union market by successfully mastering over curricula that are in full compliance with the European e-Competence Framework 3.0, which is an initiation of multi-stakeholders from the European ICT sector in order to identify and standardize skills that are currently needed in the market, and which has also been prioritized by the local ICT companies to implement.
Additionally, these 90 young IT enthusiasts will complete guaranteed internship programs within 1 year at STIKK member companies through the internship pool/student placement service of STIKK, which will help them put to practice the newly acquired skills and showcase their skills to potential employers.
This activity is co-financed by GIZ, Norwegian Embassy, and USAID.
