Monthly September 2015 Nr 1

Good Learning The fi rst intentions from class agreement experience

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Possible locations for the school building

ICT Academy to Viljandi 2 September 2015

The signing of the good intentions agreement at the site of the future school building. Good intentions agreement Our intention is to start Viljandi ICT Campus for 200 students, will be companies will pay to VICTA, therefo- Academy of ICT study and develop- located on the shores of Lake Viljandi. re VICTA will be student fee free, and ment in Viljandi, which offers app- (Location to be announced, Viljandi we will be able to accept gifted stu- lied higher education. town, Viljandi parish or at the Viiratsi dents who don’t have good financial side.) opportunities. On 20th May 2015, Viljandi ICT Aca- The location requirements are: demy (from now on VICTA) partners Location attractiveness and opportu- signed good intentions agreement. nity to expand schools campus to fit PARTNERSWinners!: One of the aims was to contribute the 1000 students. ViljandiICT Sector Gümnaasium – knowledable work- international growth of ICT study and The legal form of an educational force.A.Kitzbergi nim. Gümnaasium development by creating an ICT study institution would be the foundation. ViljandiViljandi Kutseõppekeskus - slow down the emigration and development centre in Viljandi. The Foundation provides a modern le- out of the region and leads to new hig- SA Viljandi Hariduse Arengufond arning infrastructure needed and the her value-creating jobs. The vision for the year 2025: environment. EestiThe Ettevõtluskõrgkool increased student Mainor population in VICTA, about 1000 ICT in SAViljandi, Viljandimaa up to Arenduskeskus 1000 ICT students, students will study and half of mayViljandi lead toMaavalitsus permit reloaction of some them should be international On phase 1 VICTA’s school of Viljandigraduates Linnavalitsus in Viljandi; they will crea- students. building should be ready, te Viljandifamilies Vallavalitsus here, start new businessed Through VICTA there will and create more jobs. Also, it results MTÜ Eesti Äriinglite Assotsiatsioon arise many StartUp compa- including: auditorium, in positive economic growth and Vil- nies. jandi’sMTÜ JCIaverage Viljandimaa income will increase. ICT sector companies will classrooms, dining room, and SA Viljandi Haigla then be concentrated in and a modern campus. MäeltkülaThe first Tööstuspark phase will MTÜ cost between around Viljandi. 5-7IITEE million OÜ Euros, (to be confirmed du- Start Up development will be an On phase 1 VICTA’s school building ringON24 the ASproject) and the first 200 stu- important part of the student’s curricu- should be ready, including: auditorium, dents we can accept after 2 years from Bed Factory Sweden OÜ lum and they will be able to launch and classrooms, dining room, modern cam- when we find funding. develop them while studying at VICTA. pus, with parking lot and surrounding LX Motors OÜ Because we will have ICT workforce, landscape. AS BHC we could see the relocation of ICT com- AS Viljandi Aken ja Uks panies to Viljandi from other countri- Business Model: Sveba-Dahlen Baltic OÜ es. VICTA will cooperate with interna- OÜ DAG Reklaam We will foster cooperation with mul- tional companies, (first negotiations are Bestra Engineering OÜ tinational and international ICT com- already in progress) who will order de- panies as training grounds for the velopments and problem solutions Eesti Höövelliist OÜ workforce by meeting their ICT needs. from VICTA. KOKO arhitektid OÜ Shorter intention: VICTA will implement problem ba- Hansa Candle AS On phase 1, to open school, which sed learning where knowledge and skil- Pleksor OÜ offers applied higher education to 200 ls are obtained through the real pro- Cleveron OÜ students. (Studying languages english jects, which are solved during studying and estonian.) process. With that Business Model 3 September 2015

Arno Kütt: Photo: Elmo Riig / Sakala ICT Academy to Viljandi Arno Kütt, enterpreneur and the CEO hool students, including many stu- His main points of concern in Viljandi of Cleveron, came up with the idea of dents from overseas studying IT in Vil- are: a high level of emigration, jobs an ICT Academy in Viljandi at an an- jandi. Arno Kütt is convinced that the with a small added value, the lack of nual discussion of opinion-leaders. ICT Academy could potentially raise Vil- national regional policy. jandimaa’s average wage, due to the Kütts vision is that in a ten-year period, higher wages in the information tech- Published in Sakala 4.4.2013 there could be thousands of high sc- nology fields. After-school activities

The first month of the school year is mation that students need, such as a campus. Later, they will edit the video over and though there is not much calendar, information about studies, a together. The team consists of Allar An- free time, students have made many social site, and other interesting featu- ton, Chris Raagel, Emil Kuldsaar and interesting projects inside and outsi- res. Currently, there are three people Hendrik Sihver. de of the school. Lets look at the pro- working on the project: Hendrik Sihver, The third interesting project is the jects and the people working on them. Janek Ehasoo, and Karli Ots. student newspaper. Behind the scenes Another project is VICTA’s Inaugu- of the newspaper, there is a team of The first collaborative project was ma- ral Class video archive. As we consider designers and writers. The teams ac- king the schools website. From the web- the creation of VICTA an historic event, tive participants are Jagnar Roosimä- site, came an idea to make an interacti- our diligent video group is trying to gi, Mihkel Väin, Hendrik Sihver and Emil ve user and device friendly intranet. The capture it as much as they can. They Kuldsaar. Intranet would include all kinds of infor- are documenting activities on and off Hendrik Sihver

Hendrik Sihver Chris Raagel Emil Kuldsaar Allar Anton Jagnar Mihkel Väin Janek Ehasoo Roosimägi 4 September 2015

Photo of the class on the first day of school. The first class

We have already talked about the cyber defence. There are also students Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the Estonian creation of VICTA and its vision for who are interested in creating business president came to wish everyone a the future. Now let us give a short applications or process optimization. good school year. overview about the students. There is also something in common with everybody. Everyone has a interest in joyed climbing the walls and ropes, slid- In September 2015, students interes- mobile game development and marketing. ing down the cables and had fun on ted in IT started their studies in Viljan- On the second school week, our the obstacle course until sundown. di. There are many people coming from students and teachers had a get-to- Some also tried their hands in sharp- all over Estonia - from Tallinn to Kures- gether where they got to know each shooting and basketball. The night end- saare. Students are diverse in gender, other better. It took place in Valma Ad- ed with a sauna and grill. age groups, and education. venture Park (thank you for having us). The rainy weather did not prevent There are people who just finished First we played a game to get to anyone from having fun during the secondary school as well as people know each other some more. It turned whole event. who have already worked in the IT field out that many didn´t even know all of Before everyone went their own but want to learn new skills. Some their fellow students names. The game way, they were called together again already have their own projects, others fixed that problem. for a discussion regarding making a are still searching for the thing that in- After a little fun and games, there mobile game. We will keep you updat- terests them the most. were more activities. The creator of ed about the mobile game develop- Some came to VICTA with specific VICTA idea, Arno Kütt, took the stu- ment progress, as we believe it is go- plans to develop software for automa- dents on a helicopter ride. Others went ing to continue. ting production units, some to learn to the adventure park. Students en- Hendrik Sihver 5 September 2015

Kodumaa HLÜ chairman of the board Rait Kondor. Learning from experience In September, VICTA’s Inaugural the idea and how the service works; that we involve all people in Estonia Class students had a visit from two students got to use it and gave their into making the bank.” They talked guest speakers. They spoke about feedback on the application. Many about loan and savings vision, which their occupation and information ideas were gathered from the students is: “Let us be the biggest domestic technology needs and challenges, to help transform Wisemile into a bet- cooperative bank, where the owners and introduced some innovative ter application. Furthermore, the class are all the members. Created coope- applications. was divided into small groups and each rative bank of Estonia supports the one shared the ideas on creating a mo- people’s money matter in a long-term On September 17, 2015 Wisemile chief bile payment application. planning and offers all daily banking executive, Arti Kütt and IT manager Kai- September 25, 2015 VICTA was vi- services.” The story of formation of Ko- ko Kaur met the students. Wisemile is sited by Rait Kondor, the Kodumaa Ka- dumaa Kapital HLÜ was introduced, its innovative social network of transpor- pital HLÜ chairman, and Kady Alurand, principles and needs, as a part of tation, which connects passengers and marketing manager. Introduction was comprehensive overview of the finance luggage to their respective chauffeurs given by Rait, who spoke of Kodumaa world. The marketing manager then tal- through a mobile app. The driver and Kapital HLÜ mission, which could be ked about IT issues in the financial field passengers can talk through their summarized below: “By offering favou- and discussed how they might be sol- escort and share fuel costs. Passengers rable and understandable banking ser- ved. Again, students shared lots of and luggage attendants can therefore vices to people, we can help Estonian good ideas and thoughts that could get from door-to-door transport very people to cope with their money mat- help Kodumaa Kapital HLÜ to deal with comfortably and affordably. They also ters, so it would be beneficial for a per- technological challenges. spoke about how they came up with son and the whole Estonian society. For Hendrik Sihver

VICTA Development Manager and coordinator of extra-curricular activities. Editor-in-chief . [email protected], skype: margus.maido, nr: 372 51 02 797