ERCIM News No.27 - October 1996



Ukrainian Software Specialists in GMD-TechnoPark


by Karl M. Schmidt-Reindl


In the frame of the TRANSFORM programme of the German Govern-ment supporting the transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, a German-Ukrainian software project for the years 1995 and 1996 aims at strengthening the qualification of Ukrainian Software engineers by familiarizing them with German and international software quality standards and new technologies. By this it is expected to enhance the competitiveness of Ukrainian software producers by this and to open the Ukrainian software potential to the Western side.


GMD-TechnoPark at Sankt Augustin

The first qualification activity taking place at GMD was dealing with:


As follow-up to the project it was proposed by the Ukrainian side to establish an Internet service containing information about investment oppor-tunities, ongoing projects, conferences etc. in Ukraine.

German project partners are GMD in conjunction with RADUGA German-Ukrainian Cooperations Ltd., Dortmund. The Ukrainian project partner is SoftRating - Ukrainian Scientific Center for State Registration and Certification Tests of Information Technologies, Kiev.

Please contact:
Karl M. Schmidt-Reindl - GMD
Tel: +49 2241 14 3153
E-mail: schmidt-reindl@gmd.de

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