IT park and university

1. Why does IT park base on Yaroslavl Demidov State University?

Yaroslavl Demidov State University is traditional leader in the sphere of high informational technology. Specialists of YDSU were first who built regional network, wireless connection, and opened Cisco Regional Networking academy. YDSU education of IT specialists has such strong characteristics as deepness and system of studying in theoretical foundations of information science. It makes basis thanks to which the development of program systems may become innovation activity indeed, creating own know-how & intellectual property instead of someone else's ideas realization. YDSU is going to be a leader in IT sphere further. Nowadays the leadership may support by increasing the quality of IT education, creating structure of backing innovational IT business in Yaroslavl region. That conform idea of IT park.

2. What kind of problems of YDSU students and graduates IT park helps to solve?

Problems of students and graduates are connecting with problems of high education, which is at the bottom of it. The main problem of university education is distance between educational process and real business. The reason is lack of contacts between university staff & industry people. The result of it is not actual subjects of course papers, diploma papers, practice tasks, because there are few teachers, who are experts. In this connection IT park gives an opportunity to receive serious practical experience for graduating students in the IT sphere. IT park prepare graduating students to real labour-market by keeping in touch with IT companies of city & region, by allowing students to decide important problems & choose actual subjects of course & diploma papers. Thus then graduating students appear in labour-market, they have not only abstract theoretical knowledge, but experience working at real projects with experts.

• increasing the education quality of graduating IT specialists;
• increasing the rating of university with well-developing IT sphere;
• extension, strengthening and regulating of contacts with commercial IT companies

4. How does the interaction organize between teachers of YDSU and IT park?

Teachers of YDSU, who have innovation potential & desire to develop their lifelengths , may ask IT park about the collaboration. As far as possible IT park will commercialize their IT lifelengths and that will bring in an income for teachers. Teachers experience in IT sphere augmented with actual business projects & aims of IT companies may make serious competition for other universities of the country & for region universities of course.