CUBAN HIGHER EDUCATION

67 Higher Education Institutions More than 200 000 students (13 087 foreign students from 152 countries)

CUBAN HIGHER EDUCATION

1958-1959

1976-1977

2013-2014

3

28

67

Number of Cuban Higher Education

Institutions

1958-1959

1976-1977

2013-2014

2063

83957

207237

Undergraduate enro-llment

2009.00

2010.00

2011.00

2012.00

630420.00

526445.00

541310.00

468153.00

Postgraduate enrollment

•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 11000 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

F5F1

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

F5F1

F2 F6

F3

F4

FACULTY – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTERS

TLM: Telematics CenterCIGED: Center for ICT in Document Management

F5F1

F2 F6

F3

F4

FACULTY – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTERS

CEIGE: Business Informatics Center (CMMI Nivel II)

CEGEL: E-government Center

F5F1

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

CISEDCESOL

CIDI

F1

F2

F5

F6

F3

TLM CIGED

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 (http://coj.uci.cu), 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