Industry Collaboration
One of the main tasks of the University of Tartu is to support the development of a science-based society. This requires strong research, high-quality higher education and effective collaboration with companies and the public sector.
At the Institute of Computer Science, we have developed very diverse collaboration formats for this purpose, which allows companies to start cooperating with the university to the desired extent and volume.
Take a look at our forms of industry collaboration:
We organise various seminars and other events during which our partners can introduce themselves. For example, we host the Data Science Seminar event series, which have see us host presentation from various partners such as Bolt, SEB et al. The Delta Career Day event is also extremely popular among companies, as they can show students their activities, challenges and opportunities there. Events such as these are the perfect way to raise your profile among students and scientists.
Guest speakers in lectures are also a way to raise visibility. Representatives of companies are often welcome to speak in various courses, where they may introduce their fields of work, career opportunities, professional challenges and their company. A similar opportunity awaits top experts at University of Tartu events.
Student projects are akin to large homework that students can chip away at during their respective courses. We are always seeking new problem statements, data sets and other challenges for students to solve.
We await collaboration partners to offer ideas and problem statements on the following student projects:
- Digital Product Management study program Sandbox course "Digital Product Management Industry Project"
- The study course "Software Project"
- Student projects on courses Machine Learning and Introduction to Data Science
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| Sandbox is a digital product management study program that includes a number of courses. Within two of these courses, student teams solve real-life problems provided by companies. They create prototypes and test them. We are always looking for new partners who are ready to contribute to the education of future product managers - be it as a guest speaker or with a challenging project. |
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| AI and Robotics Estonia (AIRE) - THe University of Tartu is a part of a consortium the aim of which is to increase the digitalisation of industry in the fields of AI and robotics. As part of AIRE, we offer the possibility of demo projects - a form of collaboration in which a company can work out a proof of concept (and more) of a possible solution that has not been implemented yet. |
The Industrial Master's Programme in IT is a study program that brings together bright students from the Institutes and our collaboration partners. For our partners, it is an excellent opportunity to mould a person from the next genertion of IT-specialists into what the job market needs the most.
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IT-internships are a mandatory part of all Bachelor's and Master's courses at the Institute. Collaboration partners have an opportunity to offer internship positions and find suitable interns among our students. Internships allow companies to bring in a highly motivated student that can then apply the skills and knowledge gathered during their studies.
The University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science collaborates with various companies and public sector institutions, providing scientific support.
In cooperation with the Institute of Computer Science, it is possible to carry out various research and development projects in three categories:
- Basic research – original research to gain new knowledge without aiming for their immediate implementation;
- Applied research – original research with a view to implementing it in a specific field;
- Pilot and development – systematic work carried out on the basis of basic and applied research to develop a new or improved product, process, system or device.
The greatest potential for collaboration with companies is based on our own research capabilities:
- artificial intelligence and machine learning, incl. deep neural networks
- cyber security and data security
- cryptography and quantum cryptography
- business process modelling and mining
- language technology, incl. machine translation, speech synthesis, etc.
- analysis of biological and health data
- self-driving technologies
- intelligent transport systems and smart city technologies
- distributed systems and scientific calculations
- big data technologies
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- software development, software engineering, open-source software
- coding of information and signals
- data visualisation
- blurred logic, mathematical logic, etc.
- semantics and fault tolerance of programming languages
- e-learning and learning analytics technologies
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What do we offer?
In co-operation with companies, we build on the principle of supporting the creation of innovation by integrating research and development with solving specific, real-world challenges.
We often invite representatives of partner companies to our courses as guest speakers to share their experiences. The Delta Career Day also awaits companies and organisations to present their career opportunities.
We organise various events to share knowledge with the wider public. Data Science Seminars feature scientists, lectors, students, alumni and representatives from the private sector, all sharing their expertise and knowledge. The AI and Robotics Center AIRE club events bring together the AI and Robotics field scene so that scientific innovation can enter and help the industrial sector. Our experts feature in various other events (for example, the Tartu Entrepreneurship Week, sTARTUp Day, Digit, Refresh and more), raising awareness of digitalisation and the possibility of IT solutions.
Every autumn, we post a call for project ideas and datasets from companies for course projects in various subjects where students learn to apply appropriate data science and machine learning methods in order to draw useful conclusions and create models based on the data. For companies, this is a great opportunity to verify an initial hypothesis or try out something they had no time for, on a new dataset.
The Design Thinking and Digital Product Management programme Sandbox, in co-operation with partners, helps develop design thinking education in University of Tartu in addition to offering courses and training outside the University. By offering problem statements to students, companies can identify and solve possible mistakes and fault before shipping their product, giving them an advantage over their peers.
The Industrial Master's Programme in IT helps students about to join the job market to gather knowledge at our partner organisation. In this way, we train top quality data scientists, analysts, software developers and digital product managers, who will have the opportunity to use bleeding edge knowledge and ideas for the benefit of the company already during their studies.
We are constantly engaging in research and development projects with private companies and organisations from the public sector. Our competencies have created both smaller and larger R&D projects with, for example, Bolt, Mooncascade, PerkinElmer, BetterMedicine, Tartu City Government, Institute of the Estonian Language, Health and Welfare Information Systems Centre.
The High Performance Computing Center offers the most powerful IT infrastructure in the Baltic region for companies to work large data in. The service includes access to supercomputers, cloud services, data storage, user training and technical support. The Estonian computing Center is safe and a good fit for working sensitive data. In larger projects, the European super computer LUMI is also available. Fast data processing is vital in areas like product development, machine learning, robotics and business analytics.
These are just a few examples of our industry collaboration projects that cement the role of the University in society as the creator and disseminator of knowledge.
Read more about our research groups and labs.
Take a look at our internship offers register and the possible thesis subject register, where we also include offers from our partner companies. You are welcome to submit your own!
Gallery of successful R&D projects
