Future Software Developers will be trained with Ticar@
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A Meet and Interview Meeting was held for Ticar@ Software Developer Academy, which was designed by Istanbul Commerce University Technology Transfer Office (Ticaret TTO) and supported by Istanbul Development Agency (ISTKA).
The Meeting and Interview Meeting of the Ticar@ Software Developer Academy and Employment Center Project, whose goal of training 1 Million Software Developers within the scope of the National Employment Mobilization in the Turkey Century was realized, was held at the Istanbul Commerce University Sütlüce Campus Conference Hall with the participation of 420 software developer candidates selected from more than 2 thousand young people. .
Our Rector Prof. Dr. Abdulhamit Avşar, Istanbul Commerce University Faculty of Business Administration Faculty Member and Project Academic Advisor Assoc Prof. Dr. Sabri Öz, Project and Training Coordinators Beyza Küçük and M. Özgür Yaran and representatives of stakeholder organizations attended the meeting of the project, which was designed by Istanbul Commerce University Technology Transfer Office (Commerce TTO), supported by ISTKA, with the participation of Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ITO) Technopark Istanbul, Esenler Municipality Technopark, BETA Scientific Association and Economic Research Foundation.
“SOFTWARE AFFECTS ALL BRANCHES OF SCIENCE”
Our Rector, Prof. Dr. Abdülhamit Avşar, who made a speech at the meeting where 420 young people who meet the application criteria and passed the pre-approval were invited, noted that software technologies have become a dominant field that affects every field and all disciplines today, and that even to talk about communication science, it is now necessary to talk about software and new technologies emerging from software. Emphasizing that no discipline can be considered independent of software today, Prof. Dr. Avşar reminded that it is very valuable that the young people who applied showed interest in such a subject and showed the will to participate in the training.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT IS OPENING IN COMMERCE
Prof. Dr. Avşar stated that Istanbul Commerce University has a Software Engineering Department and that the infrastructure has been created to open an Artificial Intelligence Department. Prof. Dr. Avşar said: “During this training period, you will see what software is and its social and economic effects. You will be able to benefit from the capabilities of all our stakeholder institutions.” Project Coordinator Beyza Küçük, who made a presentation about the training content, explained the details of the camp during the training process and the processes to be carried out with R&D centers to the participants who were entitled to receive training within the scope of the project.
100 EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sabri Öz President of Beta Science Association, one of the project partners, and also the Academic Advisor of the Project, stated that the education will be 49 percent online and 51 percent face-to-face, and noted that students who attend classes and pass the modules will increase their chances of employment for 100 people. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Öz said, “We are all working for Turkey, we want to provide our best in terms of education and academy services that will benefit our country, we will promise you such an education.”
Education Coordinator M. Özgür Yaran also described the subject of software as not only codes and algorithms but also art that shapes our dreams and hopes. Yaran pointed out that in addition to the academic content of the training, it is also a training program in which experts will be trained to meet the needs of the private sector. The program ended with individual interviews after answering the participants’ questions.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The trainings will be held in the laboratory established at the Esenler Youth and Sports Center in the 15 July National Garden of Esenler Municipality, one of the project stakeholders. The training, which was to be 480 hours in total, was increased to 522 hours to be enriched. The project will be a part of the goal of training 1 Million software developers within the scope of the National Employment Mobilization organized within the framework of the 2023 vision and published in the Presidential Strategy Document.
