CUBAN HIGHER EDUCATION 67 Higher Education Institutions More than students ( foreign students from 152 countries)

CUBAN HIGHER EDUCATION

PREMISES

Flexible university Academic college Productive college value-added research PREMISES

MISSIONS To train Informatics Science professionals, highly committed to the development of the country. To produce software and informatics services following a study-work based educational model and support Cuban software industry.

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION

GENERAL FACTS Created in 2002 Course: Informatics Sciences Engineering Training model based on software development competences unique educational concept industry within the university 7 graduations, more than engineers Very young faculty body

Undergraduate 6 faculties More than 4000 undergraduate students All Cuban provinces represented Postgraduate Education Five Master’s Degree programs Institution authorized for PhD programs in Informatics International Postgraduate Education Center TRAINING

F1 F2 F5 F6 F3 F4 FACULTY – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTERS

F5 F1 F2 F6 F3 F4 FACULTY – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTERS CISED: Center for identification and information security (CMMI Nivel II) CESOL: Free Software Center CIDI: Center for internet research and development

F5 F1 F2 F6 F3 F4F4 FACULTY – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTERS TLM: Telematics Center CIGED: Center for ICT in Document Management

F5 F1 F2 F6 F3 F4 FACULTY – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTERS CEIGE: Business Informatics Center (CMMI Nivel II) CEGEL: E-government Center

F5 F1 F2 F7 F6 F3 F4 FACULTY – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTERS FORTES: ICT in Education Center

F1 F2 F6 F3 F4 FACULTAD - CENTROS DE DESARROLLO F5 CEDIN: Industrial Informatics Center (CMMI Nivel II) CEDAE: Business Architecture Consulting and Development Center VERTEX: Tridimensional Interactive Virtual Environment Center

F1 F2 F6 F3 F4 F5 FACULTY – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTERS GEYSED: Geo-informatics and Digital Signals Center DATEC: Data-base Technologies Management Center

F1 F2 F5 F6 F3 F4 FACULTY – DEVELOPMENT CENTERS CESIM: ICT in Health Care Center

CISED CESOL CIDI F1 F2 F5 F6 F3 TLMCIGED CEIGE CEGEL F4 FORTES CEDIN CEDAE DATEC GEYSED CESIM FACULTY – DEVELOPMENT CENTERS VERTEX

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

RESEARCH CENTERS Educational Science Innovation and Quality Center (CICE) Computational Mathematics Research Center (CEMC) GENERAL SERVICES CENTERS Technical Support and Maintenance Center Audiovisual Production Center Graphic Design Center

Bioinformatics Image and signal processing and Geoinformatics Educational Science and ICT in education Computer graphics and Virtual reality Telecommunication networks and Software security Social impact of ICT Free software and open source systems Business intelligence and architectures Database technologies Scientific computing Artificial Intelligence Software project management, quality and engineering RESEARCH LINES

RESEARCH-DEVELOPMENT About 200 software and associated services development projects 3 development centers certified CMMI Level II Relations with academic and business institutions from, among others: Venezuela, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Argentina, Panama, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Canada, Spain, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Russia, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Equatorial Guinea

REGIONAL LEADING ROLE IN ACM- ICPC PROGRAMMING CONTESTS Regional venue for ACM –ICPC competitions in the Caribbean region since 2009 (more than 50 universities from 8 countries) Participation in two World Finals World sub-champion of the ICPC Challenge Tournament in the World Finals in 2011, USA Developer of the Caribbean On-line Judge ( with more than 700 universities and 150 countries represented

Almost 1000 apartments with basic living and working conditions Basic services: Cafeterias Post Office Bank Currency exchange office Beauty parlor and barbershop Swimming pool Bakery Others RESIDENTIAL AREA

EXTENSION Wide involvement in social programs Active sports and cultural life About 250 works of art in campus EXTENSION