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Course projects

The University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science invites organisations to submit proposals for course projects. A course project is an excellent opportunity to collaborate with the university and gain fresh ideas from our talented students.

What are course projects?
A course project is a semester-long task in which students form teams and test possible solutions to challenges proposed by partner companies and organisations. These projects allow students to put their knowledge into practice and gain valuable experience in teamwork and project work.

Who can submit course projects?
Projects may be proposed by private and public sector organisations, as well as research groups at universities.

By taking part in a project, partners can:

  • test a solution to a problem that is important, but perhaps not urgent enough to reach the development team’s immediate agenda;
  • collaborate with the university and demonstrate themselves as a research-driven, forward-looking organisation;
  • work with students and identify future talent.

We will be looking for new project ideas in the new year.

Our Digital Innovation Industry Project is looking for partners to challenge our students in creating and managing digital products. This is a good opportunity for companies and organisations to get a fresh pair of eyes on their problem and find an idea to continue with in the future.

We expect a problem statement or idea related to user experience from the partner, and our student teams conduct background research, and interviews with potential users to create a prototype for the solution. The presented idea or problem should therefore be:

  • solvable with a digital product
  • doable yet challenging for students
  • important to the partner.

During the project, the partner organisations or companies meet with the students four times. The first meeting is at the beginning of the course and the teams discuss the first ideas and thoughts. The second time takes place about a month before the end of the course, and the teams introduce a more robust solution. At the second meeting, the teams will receive additional feedback, which they will take into account in their final presentation. During the course, students may have questions for which they will contact partners, but the organisation can determine how involved it wants to be. The working language of the project is English.

For more information, visit the project website. To submit a project, fill out the online form. For more information contact Yana Halas ([email protected]).

Read about SK ID Solutions' experience in the Digital Innovation Industry Project.

The software project course seeks partner companies with a problem or idea that needs software application development but is missing developers. In the project, our final year IT students team up and build partnering companies a suitable IT solution using knowledge from their studies.

Teams will carry out the project between September and December. Each team will consist of four highly motivated students who will collectively spend at least 600 hours on the project.

If you are interested in proposing a project for our students, we only need a simple one-page description focusing on what IT solution you want, what problem it will solve, and who the user is. Find examples of past projects and additional info on the course website.

To submit your project proposal, fill out the online form. Contact Marinos Georgiadis ([email protected]) with questions about the project.

Read about Reocto's experience with the software project course.

We are seeking partner organisations for our Data Science and Machine Learning courses this autumn. In these courses, students will learn to apply relevant data science and machine learning methods for extracting valuable insights and building models from the data. During the course, the students will form groups (of 3 - 4) to work on a project. We strive to provide our students with practical experience, thus we are looking for a diverse set of projects that represent real-life challenges. It is a great opportunity for the project partners to verify a hypothesis or test a new data set. For the students, it is a good way to learn and gain perspective.

What type of projects are we looking for? We do not have a set list of ideas we wish to see, but keep in mind that the project should be:

  • strongly linked to Machine Learning or Data Science
  • important to you and society
  • challenging (e.g., no ready-made solutions online)
  • doable by students
  • accompanied by a relevant dataset or data that can be collected online with little effort.

How much time should partners dedicate? Ideally, the partners would be in contact with our students at the beginning of the project to explain the idea and initial hypothesis about the dataset. However, our lecturers are supervising the projects, too. Partners are more than welcome to attend the final project presentation organised in December. Please note that the students choose the ideas they work with so we cannot guarantee that your project will be chosen.

To submit a project, fill out the online form. For more information contact Dmytro Fishman ([email protected]).