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For the first time, SUSU will become an international venue for education and the exchange of experiences in software engineering between postgrads and researchers from 6 countries and 11 universities. From May 15^th through May 28^th the international school on Mathematical and Computational Foundations of Program Engineering will be held at the university at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Director of the SUSU School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Gleb Radchenko told us about the project’s goals, the teaching format, and the unique opportunities for young researchers

– What is the Erasmus+ PWs@PhD International Project and what opportunities does it offer?

– PWs@PhD is an academic project being realized within the Erasmus+ program from the European Union, aimed at the development, modernization, and internationalization of higher education and its research portion at the PhD level and support for the foundation of new PhD programs in software engineering in partner countries. 11 universities are participating in this project: Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland), University of Rostock (Germany), The University of Central Lancashire (Great Britain), Aalborg University (Demark), The University of Jordan (Jordan), Yarmouk University (Jordan), The Jordan University of Science and Technology (Jordan), South Ural State University (Russia), Ural Federal University (Russia), and other universities. The project is totally financed by funds from the EU and gives postgraduates of partner universities a chance to gain unique experience and skills in bleeding edge methods of software engineering.

– Why was SUSU chosen as the venue for this project?

– SUSU is hosting this many honored representatives of the international academic society for the first time. We are one of the 11 partner universities of the international school. The project was initially thought up as a series of scientific schools in various areas of software engineering for the 2016-2018 period. Every half year a 2-week school for postgraduates for all of the partner universities is organized at one of the universities of the consortium. Our university works very closely with Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT, Finland) in dual degree programs for a master’s in Informational Technology where many of our talented students work. And it’s natural that LUT, as the project coordinator, referred to us as one of Russia’s leading universities in information technology.

– What meaning does this event have for the university?

– In my opinion, this is a milestone which will move the university to a new level and gives us the unique chance to move SUSU forward within the 5-100 Project. The university will be visited by many international professors and post-graduates who will get to know SUSU’s capabilities and, in the future, we hope that they will consider our university a possible place for their continued studies or research.

– And for participants?

– The project gives participants an opportunity for training the new generation of young researchers and teachers in various scientific areas within software engineering. Postgraduates will gain irreplaceable experience in joint projects and conferences. Taking part in the schools organized at partner universities, postgraduates will have a unique chance to open up new research horizons in software engineering.

– Which school activities you could highlight?

– A whole number of interesting courses are planned within the school which both participants of the school and any interested teachers and postgraduates can attend. For example, professor Janet Read from the University of Central Lancashire (Great Britain) will be offering a course in the mathematical foundations of software user interface. Within this course, she’ll speak about a very interesting, socially-significant project tied to the development of user interfaces for children with special needs. This is a visible example of the fact that mathematics and statistics play an important role in the development of user interface even for such complex tasks. A series of lectures in informational security and cryptography will be read by professor Franck Leprevost from the University of Luxembourg. Mr. Leprevost participated in the development of standards for information security (IEEE-01363, the international standard for open key cryptography), and also acted as an expert of encryption and cryptosystems in the European parliament. From SUSU, teachers of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science will be participating, offering courses on the mathematical foundations of software engineering, modern databases, and data mining methods. I myself will be offering a course in modern methods of organizing distributed computing systems.

– What format will the international school be held in?

– It is an intensive format – lectures in the first half of the day, and in the second half of the day, in the majority of courses, there will be practical lessons. Within the school, specialists invited from Ural Federal University will hold business games in self-organization and schedule planning for researchers. For guest partners, the first day of the school will be a chance to get to know SUSU, visit the international laboratories and museums at SUSU, and on the weekend there will be a packed social program – a trip around Chelyabinsk to see our sights. Also, on May 22^nd there will be a trip to Yekaterinburg and Ural Federal University, where school participants will be able to get to know the leading developing companies in software engineering, including the companies Yandex and SKB-Kontur.

– What are the planning results for holding this international school at SUSU? 

– The final point will be an international conference on innovative methods of teaching and organizing education in information technology, the theses of which should be included in Scopus. Within the conference, here will be a presentation competition, the winners of which will receive diplomas, and all school participants will receive a certificate for their attendance. But the most important achievement is the organization of comanagement of research projects between postgraduates and professors from the partner universities of the PWs@PhD project. For example, at this time, our postgraduate student Dmitriy Savchenko is completing an internship at the Lappeenranta University of Technology, where he has already sent a scientific article for publishing in an international journal which he published with his advisor at LUT, professor Ossi Taipale. I hope that the meetings between SUSU and partners of the PWs@PhD project will allow postgraduates from partner universities to see us as a place for future productive scientific work.

News Source: https://www.susu.ru/en/news/2017/05/12/pwsphd-software-engineering-international-level

An international school, Mathematical and Computational Bases of Software Engineering, within the Erasmus+ project “PWs@PhD: Joint Programs and Framework for Doctoral Education in Software Engineering” will be held at SUSU from May 15^th through 28^th. More than 50 postgraduates and professors from the project’s partner-universities will attend the school. The Erasmus+ PWs@PhD project brings together 11 universities from 6 countries: Finland, Denmark, Great Britain, Jordan, Germany, and Russia. At SUSU, the project is being realized within the Higher School of Electronics and Computer Sciences.

“This project offers a chance to train the new generation of young researchers and professors in various scientific areas of software engineering. Postgraduates will gain irreplaceable experience in working with the international scientific society by participating in joint projects and conferences. Taking part in schools organized within partner-universities, postgraduates will have the unique chance to open up broader scientific and research horizons for themselves in software engineering,” notes director of SUSU School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, candidate of physico-mathematical sciences, Gleb Radchenko.

Partnership within the Erasmus+ project helps partner-countries with the development and improvement of academic programs for postgraduates and with the completion of scientific research. The foundation for cooperation is the body of knowledge in software engineering contained within the guide to software engineering (Software Engineering Body of Knowledge – SWEBOK). This project helps partner-universities adopt each other’s experiences in academics and research in software engineering, also including such areas as cloud technologies, methods for problem-oriented training, mathematical methods in software engineering, methods of informational security, organization of methods of human-machine interaction, and more.

The Mathematical and Computational Bases of Software Engineering school is being held at South Ural State University together with Ural Federal University. From May 15^th through 28^th, participants will be offered courses developed by professors at SUSU and UrFU, the University of Central Lancashire (Great Britain), and the University of Luxembourg. Over two weeks, post-graduates from various countries will study the mathematical bases of software engineering, methods of organizing distributed computation systems based on microserver architecture, modern technologies for organizing data processing and storage, the basics of self-organization and data mining. A series of lectures by Franck Leprévost, professor at the University of Luxembourg, specialist in informational security, dedicated to methods of cryptography and informational security, is worth noting separately.

“The organization of an international school in software engineering is a meaningful event for South Ural State University and for the Ural region as a whole. Meetings between professors of international universities with SUSU postgraduates and teachers and them getting to know our university’s capabilities should become the basis for developing a partnership in higher education as well as the formation international scientific research teams. Holding an event of this level, without question, increases SUSU’s prestige on the international area, which is the main goal of our university’s participation in the 5-100 Project,” notes rector of South Ural State University, doctor of technical sciences, professor Aleksandr Shestakov.

For SUSU postgraduates, international schools in the Erasmus+ grant are a unique chance to open broader scientific research horizons in the manufacturing development and research of software engineering.

About SUSU

South Ural State University (a national research university) is the center of the South Ural region’s educational, scientific, cultural, and sport life. SUSU includes 9 institutes, 3 higher schools, a military training faculty, and a faculty of pre-university training. More than 40 thousand students study in university and its branches. The academic process includes more than 5000 teachers and staff, including more than 360 professors and doctors of science and 1600 candidates of science and associate professors. Bachelor’s students, master’s students, and specialists are training in more than 200 programs and specialties. In October 2015 as a result of a competitive selection, SUSU entered the group of leading Russian universities chosen for participation in the 5-100 Project, whose goal is maximizing the competitive position of its universities on the global market of academic services and research programs.

About the Erasmus+ Project

The Erasmus+ program is a new program of the European Union which aims to support cooperation in academics, professional training, youth, and sport, from 2014 until 2020.

The new program is meant to become an effective instrument to facilitate the development of human and social capital in Europe and outside of its borders. The program’s goals include the creation of a new quality of cooperation, including:

• the use, distribution, and development of previous results;
• the promotion of new ideas and bringing in new partners from the labor and civil society spheres;
• the creation and development of new forms of cooperation.

11 Universities are included in the “Erasmus+ PWs@PhD” project:

• Lapeenranta University of Technology (coordinator),
• University of Rostock (Germany),
• The University of Central Lancashire (Great Britain),
• Aalborg University (Demark),
• The University of Jordan (Jordan),
• Yarmouk University (Jordan),
• The Jordan University of Science and Technology (Jordan),
• South Ural State University (Russia),
• Ural Federal University (Russia),
• Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (Russia),
• Saint Petersburg State University (Russia).

You can find additional information about the project on the Russian site of the project: http://eecs.susu.ru/ru/pws_phd/

The Research and Education Center (REC) of Kaspersky Lab «Information Security» was opened in Chelyabinsk. The REC was established on the premises of the High School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of SUSU.

Kaspersky Lab is the world’s largest private company operating in the field of information security. It operates in 200 countries all over the world. The first Research and Education Center in Chelyabinsk created by the Laboratory is located on the 9th floor of one of the buildings of South Ural State University.

According to the Rector of SUSU Alexander Shestakov, the new center will allow students of the largest university in the South Urals to better organize counteraction to emerging threats to information security and ensure the national interests of the Russian Federation in the information sphere.

«Information security and knowledge in this field are becoming more valuable today, so for the University the foundation of such a scientific and education center is an important step. In the future, we will develop this focus area. Together with our colleagues from the Kaspersky Lab we will improve the training programs at the field-oriented Department of Information Security, and will also develop additional education. Another promising area, which we will pay special attention to, is information security in industry,» Alexander Shestakov noted at the opening ceremony of REC.

Another important area of cooperation between SUSU and Kaspersky Lab will be research work in the field of information security at an interdisciplinary level. This will provide new tasks for all the scientific areas of the University related to information technology, radio electronics and automated control systems.

«This year Kaspersky Lab celebrates its 20th anniversary. Over the years, we have entered the world’s top companies working in the field of information security, and have accumulated a huge amount of knowledge, which we now transfer to education and science. I am confident that over the next 20 years we will develop together with South Ural State University, one of the leading universities in the country,» said Dmitry Postelnik, head of educational programs at Kaspersky Lab, JSC.

The Minister of Information Technology and Communication of the Chelyabinsk region Alexander Kozlov noted that the foundation of the center will provide SUSU graduates additional competitive advantages in the labor market.

«The opening of the REC of Kaspersky Lab «Information Security» is an unprecedented event for the Chelyabinsk region in general and the University in particular. I am sure that due to this laboratory graduates of SUSU will be able to bring even more benefits both in specific industries and enterprises where information security issues need to be addressed, and in IT companies where they can create new information security tools and develop existing ones. The demand for such specialists is extremely high. This is the most demanded IT profession at the moment,» says Alexander Kozlov.

It should also be mentioned that the partnership of South Ural State University and Kaspersky Lab provides training of specialists in the field of information security and work on joint research projects.