Presenting KNORK Outcomes at the National Forum “Opportunities for the development of e-education in Bulgaria”

The event is organized in the partnership of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, Rector’s Council and BAIT (Bulgarian Association of Information Technologies), which is the biggest, most representative and influential branch organization in the sphere of information and communication technologies in Bulgaria.

The event is very wide forum of exchanging views and ideas about VISION FOR VAST IMPLEMENTATION OF ICT IN EDUCATION IN BULGARIA. The target audience was more than 500 persons of the whole country: teachers from secondary schools, university lecturers, experts from ministry of education, heads of business companies, representatives of education commission in the Parliament, rectors of Universities, and heads of foreign companies in the ICT sector and education. Among official guest were Minister of Education, Head of the European Commission Representation in Bulgaria, Member of the European Parliament and eSkills for Jobs Аmbassador, Chair of the Managing Board of BAIT, Founder and Managing Partner of Solytron SD, Senior Manager of Oracle Academy etc.

Discussed topics were:

Reform in education according to the national and European Commission priorities
Financing of secondary and higher education at national and European level
Educational content according to the business requirements
Preparing the young professionals for the labor market
The growing demand for ICT professionals
Collaboration between the business and universities

Tania Vasileva (TUS) and Stela Stefanova (TUES) were invited speakers concerning topics “Integration between universities and secondary education” and “Implementing University approaches in secondary professional education” http://events.idg.bg/bg/2015/education/speakers