Executive staff:
Director
lobachev@intstartupschool.comProfessor Lobachev is the director of International R&D and Start-Up School. He is a specialist in the areas of project management and start-up industry. Has extensive experience working with Asian, European and North American markets, as the general director of a group of companies as well as in the area of start-ups. Dr. Lobachev has obtained his doctoral degree at Odessa National Polytechnic University, studied business at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School (KMBS) and worked as the IT deputy rector at I.I. Mechnikov National University. He has a list of over 50 publications, which include two computer science textbooks and was awarded by the Ministry of Education for his work in fields of academia and education. Areas of research interests include various aspects of specialized computer systems as well as issues of reliability in computer systems.
ICS Dean
asgics@intstartupschool.comSvitlana Antoshchuk – Dr. Habil in Computer Science, is the Head of the Information Systems Dept. Her main research interests include Information Computing Systems for Education and Intelligent Information Systems Development. She published more than 150 scientific articles and monographs and delivered more than 50 presentations at international conferences. As a Director of ONPU Institute of Computer Systems, she will provide the project team with all necessary scientific, practical and administrative support, as well as will be closely involved into all their on-going activities.
School concept:
As a result, the knowledge and approaches in education of the specialists that are involved in this area of work, who operate in it and collaborate with other specialists with similar background, requires to be just as easily adaptable as this whole area of expertise. It requires these specialists to employ the same non-standard, out-of-the-box solutions and approaches when dealing with their professional environment. Nowadays the market needs professionals who are very adapt in the next-generation technology and who are able not only to find quality solutions but are also versatile and are capable of doing it in a creative way.
In order to prepare such professionals universities and large companies look for new solutions and initiate new forms of collaboration.
One of the possible forms of such solutions is the creation and development of start-up schools in universities. Their goal would be to involve the students into the process of creating a product and commercializing the results of this intellectual endeavor while still in the process of completing their degree.
Main goals of ONPU International Start-up School (ONPU-ISS) are to increase the amount of practical and application content into the curriculum; grant access to new and emerging technology and technological trends through cooperation with the industry and work on corresponding projects; increase and facilitate the interaction between students and industry experts; select successful students to participate in the double diploma program with partner universities and others.
The length of the program depends on rate of completion of required credits and must not exceed two years. The program consists of the theoretical portion and a project. The curriculum program includes an international component, participation of an international partner university, company, supervisor or mentor for each of the projects.
Upon successful completion of the program the student will receive a certificate. Upon graduation form the school successful graduates will receive recommendations and endorsements to obtain double diplomas of the Master program from partner universities of ONPU.
The best projects can be recommended to the appropriate organizations that support innovative projects.
