Science to Business An important contribution to Siemens Generation21 corporate programme is the Science to Business (S2B) project - Siemens Ukraine's investment initiative in the area of higher technical education. Ukraine is known for its developed system of technical education and qualification of its engineers. Possessing powerful potential, it can and should take a worthy place on the world map of cutting-edge knowledge and technology centres, become a European challenge for competitors from India and China. The Science to Business (S2B) initiative offers Ukraine a real chance to succeed on this way. The Science to Business (S2B) initiative is a combination of effort and financial capacity of Siemens concern, the German Academic Exchange Office (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, or DAAD), Otto von Guericke Magdeburg University and Ukraine's leading higher education establishments aimed at training in Ukraine highly qualified technical specialists for the world market of engineering services. | Siemens Ukraine company has extensive experience of carrying out long-term projects in the area of higher technical education. |
One example of successful integration of Ukraine's engineering education into the pan-European education network is multiyear operation of the German Technical Faculty (GTF) created in 1992 at Donetsk Technical University with the assistance of Siemens. Currently, over 300 students are receiving education at GTD in five specialities. The university's graduates who undergo training under this programme gain up-to-date technical knowledge and practical know-how on the basis of Siemens products and solutions and study two foreign languages. The programme's participants during their externship at various Siemens departments in Germany acquaint themselves with the Western management style and the specifics of working in the area of modern high-tech businesses. Since 1998, GTF has graduated 270 specialists. 113 of them have taken part in various Siemens projects abroad, including those in China, Egypt, India, UAE, Turkey. Given high demand for highly qualified technical specialists and multiyear experience of successful operation of the Donetsk-based GTF, the management of Siemens Ukraine took the decision to develop this initiative into the Science to Business large-scale project which covers different regions of Ukraine. The company's additional investment will make it possible to extend the programme to the country's leading technical higher education establishments - the National Technical University of Kharkov Polytechnical Institute, the National Technical University of Kiev Polytechnical Institute, Ivano-Frankovsk Oil and Gas University, Odessa National Polytechnical University. | S2B programme is a practical realisation of the new concept of cooperation of education, science and business in the highly qualified labour market. The programme's success is guaranteed by the availability of economic benefit for all of its participants. |
Engineering and Technical Centre, Donetsk
In 1998, Siemens Ukraine's Engineering and Technical Centre was opened in Donetsk whose personnel are GTF graduates.
http://www.itc.siemens.ua - provision of personnel, formation of working groups, competence centres for carrying out engineering and start-and-adjustment works in the field of work process automation for Siemens projects outside Ukraine;
- raising the level of qualification of Ukrainian enterprises' operating personnel on the basis of a laboratory equipped with state-of-the-art Siemens automation devices;
- testing the hardware and software of modern controlled-velocity electric drive systems, providing technical support under Hotline corporate system;
- oral and written translation (German, English) of technical and design documentation.
- Development of a Hofuf water pipeline monitoring system, Saudi Arabia.
- Modernisation of a 5-stand tandem rolling mill, Thyssen BETA metallurgical works, Germany.
- Designing of a system of controlling the electrical drives of stand-type mine hoist engines for Belaruskaliy production association, Belarus.
- Development of a new ship automation concept for AIDA Cruises company, Rostok, Germany.
- Development of a control system and electrical drive system for metallurgical cranes, Azovstal Metallurgical Works, Ukraine.
As part of its regional business development strategy, Siemens Ukraine plans to open new engineering centres in Dnepropetrovsk, Simferopol and Uzhgorod, along with existing branch establishments in Kharkov, Donetsk, Odessa and Lvov. These branch establishments will be set up in cooperation with leading Ukrainian technical universities, and their specialisation will be determined based on market needs and tasks to be solved. |
