Prime Minister and Chairperson of the Council for Innovative Entrepreneurship and Information Technology Ana Brnabic said today that the IT sector has great potential and can be a support of the economic growth and economic development of our country.
On the occasion of completing one of the courses in the pilot programme for IT sector retraining, which started in April this year, Brnabic pointed out that the retraining is only one step towards the improvement of the IT sector in Serbia.
She congratulated the course participants who graduated from the Faculty of Organisational Sciences, emphasising that the IT sector is lacking in people, and this programme is designed to create, through additional education, personnel that meet the needs of companies.
Brnabic pointed to the fact that by successfully completing the training, candidates increase their chance to find jobs in the IT sector faster.
The diploma on successful completion of training in the Java programming language has received 23 students who expect to take the test for an internationally recognised Oracle Java certification, and the opportunity to become junior developers attending practice in several leading domestic IT companies.
After successfully completing practical training, participants will have enough experience to find the first job as a beginner programmer.
In the next five months, the scientific-research centre of the Faculty of Organisational Sciences will be available to them.
Training for junior developers in the IT sector, within the pilot programme, is carried out, except in Belgrade, also in Novi Sad and Nis. All courses will be completed by the end of August, after which most participants expect practice.
The course Application Programming “Link Group” in Belgrade is attended by 15 participants, and ten of them for Web Development.
Training in the “Vojvodina ICT Cluster – VOICT” in Novi Sad, where 24 students passed a course from the Java programming language, was completed last week.
For work in the Java programming language, the course is attended by 12 students in the “Advanced Technologies Cluster (NiCAT)” in Nis, while 13 of them acquire the knowledge to work in the .NET programming environment.
Schools will be paid 30% of the price of the training only if the participant is employed with a minimum net salary of RSD 40,000 in IT, at least three months in the period of nine months after the completion of the training.
Educational profile of educators is diverse, from economists and lawyers, to people employed in catering activities.
The largest number of students has a secondary vocational qualification and the age is from 26 to 35 years, while some have more than 56 years of age. Most attendees are currently unemployed, while fewer candidates are employed.
The plan is that, if the pilot project proves to be successful, training for additional 900 participants will begin in the main phase by the end of this year.
