1. The process of development of the new specialisation Preparation of required documents by a development team in cooperation with external stakeholders Approval given by various LUT committees Compliance with the LUT’s Internal Education Quality Assurance System and well known good practices in Poland Resolution of the Faculty council Typical contents of courses – selected example (*) Classification: K – knowledge, S – skills, SC – social competences C onclusions The new interdisciplinary specialisation as an initiative to adjust the University education offer to the needs of the labour market An opportunity for students to gain new competencies, enhance their language skills, IT skills and to broaden their knowledge about environmental engineering aspects Promotion and development of the LUT Abstract The main aim of the MADEM project (Mobile Application Development for Environmental Monitoring), created with the support of EEA Grants and Norway Grants, was development of a new Master’s degree programme. It was also a response to the needs of the labour market where a growing interest in the role of ICT and the importance of environmental issues are observed. The MADEM teaching programme The new degree programme - a second-degree programme in the field of computer science A study offer for graduates of engineering studies in the field of IT Admission requirements: completion of a three-and- a-half year first-cycle study programme with 210 ECTS points E-learning courses: IMS1.3a9, IMS2.3a8, IMS2.3a9 10th International Technology, Education and Development Conference Valencia, 7th-9th of March, 2016 M. Dzieńkowski, M. Milosz, M. Plechawska-Wójcik, H. Stryczewska Lublin University of Technology, Poland Mobile Databases course Course objectives To familiarize students with mobile databases on different mobile platforms To present to students mobile databases designing and data manipulating on various mobile platforms Learning outcomes (*) A student has knowledge about mobile databases, including their limitations regarding to different mobile platforms (K) A student has knowledge about standards and architectures of mobile database systems (K) A student can design a mobile database (S) A student can use and manage mobile databases, in particular he/she can realize queries and data operations (S) A student understands the importance of the proper selection and use of mobile databases in different computer applications (SC) A student is able to identify and resolve dilemmas related to the implementation of building different mobile database tasks (SC) Course content Introduction to mobile databases. Basic concepts, differences between mobile and classical databases. Classification of mobile database management systems Relational databases and mobile technologies Non-relational database systems Database technologies on different platforms - a review Designing mobile databases Android applications data storage IOS applications data storage Windows Phone applications data storage Other database architectures Query languages in mobile databases Data manipulation in the mobile database Working with data objects in mobile databases. Flat file database Contact hours and ECTS Lectures: 30 Laboratories: 30 ECTS: 6