Special session organizers:

Branko Mikac, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia

Slaviša Aleksić, Hochschule für Telekommunikation, Leipzig, Germany

Objectives

The objective of the session is to bring people together who can share experience in different aspects of university education in telecommunications: in creating, implementing and carrying out curricula; organizing academia-industry collaboration in advanced telecommunication products; organizing joint study programs on international level; organizing student and staff exchange within international exchange programs; in development and application of software tools that enable better understanding and make easier learning about complex telecommunication system and network.

Topics

Contributions to the session are preferred to be in the following area, but not limited only to them:

• Development of curricula for the new age
• Joint study programs, experiences on international collaboration
• Teaching innovations and entrepreneurship in ICT
• Industry-academia collaboration, involving students in R&D projects
• Experiences on students’ exchanges: presentation of good practice
• Network and system simulation tools in university education: principles and applications
• Advanced educational tools for telecommunications in general, and specifically for optical networks and systems

Announced papers to the special session:

• Vedran Podobnik, Jurica Babic, Ignac Lovrek (University of Zagreb), Felipe L Penaranda-Foix (Universitat Politècnica de València), Transnational Multidisciplinary Study Programs in the Field of ICT – Innovation and Entrepreneurship Aspects.
• Darko Huljenic (Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Zagreb), Summer Workshops for Students in Industrial R&D Environment.

Paper Submission