1. Partnership with industry in the Computer Science and Information Security education
Elvinia Riccobene
Department of Computer Science Università degli Studi di Milano

2. Dept of Computer Science@UNIMI
It is engaged in research and teaching activities in Computer Science and Information Security
It has more than 200 members
faculty, staff, PhD students, post-docs, adjoint lectures
It offers 8 degree's programmes
5 Bachelor, 2 Master, 1 PhD degree's programmes
Two campuses
Milan and Crema

3. Educational programmes
Undergraduate programmes
Computer Science
Graduate programmes
Computer science for digital communications
Computer Science
PhD in
Computer
Science
job
Musical Computer Science
Information Security
Computer systems and networks security
( on-line too)

4. Role of Industry in the Degree Programmes
Each degree program defined in accordance with precise national educational university programmes
degree classes of the Educational and Research Ministry
and in collaboration with “social partners”
representatives of public administrations, category associations, professional registers, business associations, related industries and companies, alumni associations
Assolombarda  (Association of the Lombardia industries)
ALSI Milano - Italian Association of Graduates in Computer Science
AISTP Italian Association for professional development and transfer
etc …
DM 22 Oct 2004, n. 270

5. Bologna Process University Business Corporation (acion)
Collaboration with social partners is necessary and required
to define academic training courses in line with the current request of qualified personnel in the ICT sector
to establish a strong link between educational objectives and programs, and competences and skills required by the job market
to strengthen employability  and personal and professional growth of graduates during their course career

6. Educational Profiles and Industry
Each degree program is under continuous assessment
annual review
joint committee, review committee, assessment board
annual consultation with social partners to
assess training objectives wrt obtained results
confirm the structure of the training course
modify programs in accordance to the changed professional profiles
identify forms of collaboration (stages, work training, external talks, internships, etc.)

7. Coordination activities
Output orientation commission
helps students to understand and to enter the job market
COSP (Center for the Orientation to Studies and Professional carriers)
a university central unit to takes care of the relations between UNIMI and industries/companies and social partners

8. Strategies for CS and IS
Academic initiatives
Carrier days
on writing a CV
on company recruitment processes and interviews
University Job Fair : From LA STATALE to JOBS
2 meeting days with industries/companies to present stages and available positions
Training Courses for young neo-graduated
hold by industrial managers to guide students in their carrier choices

9. Strategies for CS and IS
Specific initiatives:
Stages
on specific educational projects under the supervision of an industrial tutor in collaboration with an academic tutor
a platform is available, maintained by the COSP, to facilitate the publication of available stages
more than 175 stages in the last 3 years
Credits Awarding for Professional Certifications
Cisco, EQDL, EUCIP, etc.
Specific training Programs, e.g., the ULISSE project

10. Strategies for CS and IS
Specific initiatives:
Invited Talks hold by industrial representatives on specific topics in accordance with course programs
more than 20 in the last two semesters
registration framework and use of Facebook for advertisement
Recruiting Days (e.g., Accenture, IBM, Atos, Moviri, etc.)
Living Labs (from 2016)
to provide students with a lab to experiment new business ideas by means of a mentoring and collective learning
Alunmi meetings
Panels on skills required for qualified ICT personnel
at the opening of the academic year in IS (on-line edition)

11. … and after graduation? AlmaLaurea investigation
After 1 year (graduated 2015)
High employment rate
More stable and remunerated work than the average
Work Permanent job
Net salary
Italian graduates
1° level degree in
2° level degree in

12. Main collaborations

13. A successful experience
A collaboration between and Institut de Mathematique et Science Phisique (IMSP) in Porto-Novo (Benin)
for research and education
Stated in 2005 when Prof. Daniani, as missionary professor, hold for a course on Network Security (now on SOA Security) within a degree in Computer Science Engineering
Anisetti, Bellandi, Colombo, Cremonini, Damiani, Frati, Hounsou, Rebeccani: Learning Computer Networking on Open Paravirtual Laboratories. IEEE Trans. Education 50(4): (2007) (
Two students got their PhD in CS at UNIMI
One is now Assistant Professor at IMSP
One is IT manager at Benin's Ministry of Finance

14. Another successful story
In 2015, Prof Damiani, by the support of the Khalifa University, has got a $ grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the development of “Pay with a (Group) Selfie”
an app for electronic payments in country with a reduced internet connection