The Western University of Timișoara (UVT) announces the opening of the registration period for the new postgraduate study program "Entrepreneurship in blockchain".
The chosen field, but also the value of the mentors and lecturers who will support the disciplines included in this new program, positions UVT in the vanguard of European universities that introduce the Blockchain field into the curriculum area and among the advanced research concerns they develop.
Registration will take place online, between October 12 and October 28 on the admitere.uvt.ro website, in the section dedicated to the program Blockchain entrepreneurship, and admission will take place between October 29 and 30, 2020.
The course is aimed at both those interested in developing a career in the blockchain field, as well as enthusiasts who want to learn more about a market that has seen explosive growth in recent times, both in terms of market share in the case of cryptocurrencies, as well as in terms of technology and potential in various industrial fields.
The postgraduate program "Entrepreneurship in Blockchain" is managed by the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of UVT, within which there is an interdisciplinary research group in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency programming. The coordinators of the group are Prof. Dr. Viorel Negru and Lecturer Dr. Ciprian Pungilă, and the group's current research directions include numerous aspects of high-performance computing in blockchain-type distributed systems. The new postgraduate study program benefits, in addition to the involvement of UVT academics (FMI and FEAA), from the contribution of prestigious specialists from Timisoara, from UPT and UIST, as well as guests from the country and Europe, who will certainly represent , compelling arguments for all those interested in strengthening theoretical and practical knowledge of Blockchain technologies.
Among the invited mentors, who will lead the didactic and application activities, there is also a real international "star" of cryptocurrency transactions, the entrepreneur Mihai Alisie, co-founder of the Ethereum project, the second largest project in the cryptocurrency market in the world. Last year, Mihai Alisie was present at UVT, when he lectured at the Blockchain Workshop - Innovation and applicability in Business.
Along with him, well-known academics and professionals will support course modules and seminars, or activities of applied projects, among which we mention: the vice-governor of the National Bank of Romania, Prof. Dr. Leonardo Badea, the manager Armand Doru Domuța, entrepreneur Restart Energy Timișoara; university researchers: Prof. Dr. Carmen Holotescu (UIST), Prof. Dr. Valentin Munteanu (UVT), Prof. Dr. Bogdan Dima (UVT), lecturer Dr. Ciprian Pungilă (UVT), lecturer Dr. Răzvan Bogdan (UPT) and lecturer Dr. Cristian Cira (UVT).
The rector of UVT, university professor Dr. Marilen Gabriel Pirtea, appreciates the new postgraduate course: "UVT offers a highly specialized segment of learners the opportunity to deepen the field of Blockchain technologies. In the past few months, since we first announced the Blockchain Entrepreneurship graduate program, many leading finance and economic informatics professionals have expressed interest in the program. We are waiting for them to register, in UVT they will find the best conditions for a performance specialization at the European level".
The curriculum of the proposed program includes fundamental and optional subjects, among which are the courses of
- "Blockchain Technical Foundations in Decentralized and Permission-Based Systems",
- "Programming applications on different blockchain platforms",
- "Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Blockchain",
- "Decentralized Models in Economy and Society",
- "Blockchain Applications in Finance" or
- "Blockchain Applications in Energy",
- "Blochchain Applications in Education" and
- "Applications for Supply Chains".
The offer for optional courses will be even more diversified, and the study program will run for 12 weeks (10 weeks of courses, 2 weeks of final project preparation), for 2020-2021 the program will operate in online format.
The proposed program involves activities with a duration of 2 hours on weekdays and 5 hours on Saturdays, with daily online assistance of the students by mentors.
The students will be selected through an admission stage within the program (interview test), and at the end they will take an exam (practical project), evaluated by the program completion committee.
