Presentation to the Delegation of Jersey E-Digital Team

Erki Urva

10.06.2014

HISTORY

• The aims of HITSA are to assist in preparation of the highly qualified IT specialists and to support information and communication technology-related education development in Estonia

• Information Technology Foundation for Education started May 2, 2013, after a merger of:• Estonian Information Technology Foundation• Estonian Education and Research Network – EENet• Tiger Leap Foundation

• Number of employees: 95

• Annual budget 2014: 12,7 MEUR

• Offices in Tallinn and Tartu

Information Technology Foundation for Education

• Founders: • Estonian Republic• Tartu University• Tallinn University of Technology• Eesti Telekom• Association of Estonian Information Technology and Telecommunications

Companies

• Non-profit organization

• Vision 2020:• ICT skills supporting the development of the digital age society and their smart

use are the sources of the prosperity of Estonia

• Strategic objectives• OBJECTIVE No. 1: The graduates of each level of education are guaranteed

modern digital competences• OBJECTIVE No. 2: The smart use of ICT in teaching, learning and organization of

teaching increases the quality of teaching

Basic matrix structure of HITSA

Educational level

Main acitivity Pre-school and general education

Vocational education

Higher education

Goal

IT in education Innovation Centre Strategic goals of main ectivities

Information systems

Development Centre for Information Systems

IT education Development Centre for IT Education

Strategic goals of educational levels

HITSA structure 2014

HITSA Founders

HITSA Supervisory Council

HITSA Management Board

Innovation Centre

Development Centre for

Information Systems

Development Centre for IT

Education

HITSA subsidiaries

Estonian IT College

EENet

EITSA Kinnisvara

Back Office

Innovation Centre

• Established by a merger of:• The Estonian e-Learning Development Centre (part of former EITF)• Tiger Leap Foundation

• 3 consortiums/programs:• “Tiger Leap in School”• „e-vocational school“• „e-university“

• Main activities:• Staff training and support• E-learning content development• Quality management• Learning services

Development Centre for Information Systems

• Main activities:• Development and maintaining information systems for

education;

• Supported Information Systems:• SAIS – Admission Information System for universities

• 5 universities, 13 institutions of professional higher education, 5 vocational schools

• ÕIS – Study Information System for universities of applied sciences and vocational schools• 14 universities and vocational schools, 17 000 students

• Plagiarism Detection System - KRATT•Educational portals, repositories•E-learning content management systems, learning environments•Basic IT solutions for schools

Development Centre for IT Education

• Main activities:• Tiger University Program

• 1 MEUR in 2014• Funded by Estonian Government

• ICT Program• 1,6 MEUR in 2014• Funded: 85% European Regional Development Fund, 10%

Government, 5% partner• IT Academy

• 2,8 MEUR in 2014 (Government plus Skype sponsorship)• Infrastructure support programs for schools• ProgeTiger Program• School Robotics Program

IT Academy – Study IT in .ee• IT Academy – „Study IT in Estonia“

• Is not a new university;• Is a cooperation program between government, universities

and industry;• Official launch: September 2012;

• Main objectives:• To improve the international competitiveness of ICT studies;• To fulfil the needs of ICT industry for quality graduates;• To support the growth of Estonian economy

• Main activities:• International marketing;• Additional financing of selected curricula;• Scholarships;• Compensation of tuition-free studies;

Estonian IT College – brief facts• Birthday: May 17th, 2000

• Status: Private, non-profit

• Applied, the first degree level studies (Bologna-type)

• Three curricula in Information Technology

• Commercial (Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun) and open source software study programs

• CISCO, Telecommunication, Robotics, Mobile and Multimedia labs

• ~900 students

• 13 full time lecturers, ~40 visiting lecturers from universities, enterprises and state structures

IT College - study programs and forms

• Study programs• IT System Development (since 2000)• IT System Administration (since 2000)• IT Analysis (since 2003)

• Study forms• Regular (max 50% auditoria load)• Evening (max 40% auditoria load)• Distance (max 25% auditoria load – on every 3-th Friday-

Saturday-Sunday)

Estonian Education and Research Network – EENet

• Established in August 1993 as a governmental non-profit organization.

• From 1997 until April 2013 EENet operated as a state agency administered by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research.

• On April 12, 2013 EENet merged with EITF• 4 departments• ~1100 service contracts• 21 employees• Located in Tartu

Estonian Education and Research Network – EENet

• The mission of EENet is to provide a high-quality national network infrastructure for Estonia’s research, educational and cultural communities.

• Services:• Dedicated Internet access;• Webhosting, e-mail, ftp, DNS;• Consultations in the event of security problems; • Computing infrastructure for universities and research

institutions;• Estonian GRID project etc.

• Represents Estonia in several international organizations (TERENA, CEENet, EGI.eu etc)

EENet – Network and GRID Services• Backbone network

and connectivity services:• 10 Gbps fibre-rings in

Estonia• 5 Gbps international

connection (GÉANT)

• 7. FP projects GN3 ja GN3plus

• Computing and storage capacity• 400 processor cores• 40 Nvidia Tesla GPU-s• 400 TB storage

capacity

Thank you!