A monitoring mission from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) has evaluated two Centres of Excellence - Tekwill in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and ZIPhouse in Fashion Industry - in TUM campus

Published on: Fri, 06/16/2017 - 10:45

On June 15, 2017, Vitalie Tarlev, the Deputy Minister of Information Technology and Communications visited Tekwill ICT Excellence Centre, where the meeting of the founding partners of the centre took place in order to discuss the state of progress in implementing the enhancement of the IT industry competitiveness in the Republic Moldova.

The mission brought together high-ranking officials from the Embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden to the Republic of Moldova, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden and the US Agency for International Development, as well as representatives of the Competitiveness Enhancement and Enterprise Development (CEED) II Project, Employers’ Association of Light Industry of Moldova (Association APIUS) and Moldovan Association of ICT Companies.

During the meeting, the Deputy Minister Vitalie Tarlev appreciated the efforts of donors for the ICT industry, which is a fast growing field, and invited the interested parties to get involved in the development of the new policy framework for the support of the sector. In this context, Vitalie Tarlev emphasized that next week the MITC will launch the preparation process of the second package of Government’s actions to enhance the competitiveness of the IT sector.

Tekwill ICT Excellence Center was launched on March 15, 2017, and is the most important investment, at this moment, in the human technical capital of the Republic of Moldova. The objective of the Centre is to become a world-class technological space focused on removing the skill gaps in ICT and providing better employment opportunities for young people. Tekwill activities focus on the formal education of TUM by improving the curriculum, collaborating with foreign universities and improving teachers' skills. The Centre will train at least one thousand people annually, assist new enterprises in identifying investments and provide other types of support. The Centre was created as a public-private partnership through a Global Development Alliance (GDA) instrument between the Government of the Republic of Moldova, private sector (IBM, Microsoft and others) and TUM.

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