Academia to Silicon Valley

Academia is participating in the Slovenian government and business delegation to Silicon Valley, organised by the American Chamber of Commerce AmCham Slovenia.

Alongside other representatives of Slovenian companies, business accelerators and science, they will visit major technology corporations and shared economy leaders, including IBM, Cisco, HP Enterprise, Microsoft, Salesforce, Boston Consulting Group, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google and Uber.

Strengthening the use of new technologies in Academia study programmes

"For a number of years, in collaboration with the aforementioned technology companies, we have been providing students with free access to software at home and in Academia's computer laboratories, so this four-day visit to these companies is an excellent opportunity to further strengthen relationships and plan new forms of collaboration," explainsŽan Dapčevič, Executive Director for Development at Academia, who is participating in the visit.

New models and content of education

The main objective of the visit is to validate new models of education based on the student-centred learning method. Academia, with its acquired accreditation from Great Britain, is fulfilling its mission of "Learn by doing" – students complete a project assignment for each subject (for example: market research, video product, building design, product plan), and in addition complete as many as 800 hours of work placement in a company. Students thus complete the study programme with a portfolio of products that provides them with even better employment opportunities.

With the entry of sharing economy companies such as Uber and Airbnb into the Slovenian market, we are enabling students, through guest lectures in the new academic year, to learn about new economic models, how this affects the development of jobs in Slovenia, and how they can use these changes for personal and career development after graduation.

Source: Academia (15. 9. 2016). Fotografije: arhiv Academie.

This English summary was produced automatically from the Slovenian article and is pending editorial review. Slovenska različica