Odessa
Odessa is truly a magnificent city. More than 2 million people urging on the streets where the luxury competes with the most beautiful European resorts. Monica, Serghei and I have visited the Polytechnic University and tomorrow we will visit the embedded systems labs.
The meeting we have had this morning with the teachers made us a little bit circumspect. It is quite clear that some Ukrainian cities are still looking for their IT models. We mention our training needs; they propose an association with our production structures. The professors from the LLC are clearly not fairly paid by the local system. They hope to see the day of an association with Intel, Microsoft or I don’t know who else!
Well, I have already seen this happen. Half of the teachers from one of our locations are paid by Siemens (while the DHR of Siemens is a university teacher), on some other location is Continental who rules and on the third one is Nokia. And we cannot blame them. Eventually these “collaborations” are positive. In some cases these collusions become too aggressive. I know a case where a company tries any form of pressure on the competitors, a company with an outstanding ethical chart, with any doubt. Tomorrow we will spend some time with the students and we will try to make an in-depth analysis of the difficulties the local professors encounter. We really want to help them, even if this was not the reason for our trip.
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Posted on mon., 13 oct. 2008 9:55 by flasnier (86 day(s) old) | |||||||
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