Italian Universitas Mercatorum to Open Branch in Sofia, SoftUni Sets up Vocational Digital Tech High School
Italian university Universitas Mercatorum will open a branch in Sofia, as announced at the European conference EURONET-Italian Networking around Europe, organized by the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria. The University will offer bachelor’s and master’s degree courses in economics and tourism.
Universitas Mercatorum is a public-private university of the Italian Chambers of Commerce in Europe. By opening a branch in Sofia, the university aims to provide entrepreneurs in Bulgaria with professionals, trained in accordance with an Italian model of education, Giuseppe Saccone, a university representative said in an interview with Bloomberg TV Bulgaria. He was in Bulgaria to participate in “Innovation and Digital Innovation in Sofia as EU Digital Capital Markets”, a discussion panel within the framework of the conference of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria.
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Sofia will have another vocational high school profiled in digital technologies and skills. The school called SoftUni Svetlina is a project of SoftUni – the largest software university in Bulgaria, and is in line with the institution’s policy to offer modern education. The concept of the digital technology school is to turn students into professionals, mastering modern digital and practical skills that meet the needs of the companies that would hire them.
One class in each of the three profiles – Programming and Software Technologies, Graphic Design and Multimedia, and Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship – will start in the autumn. The school offers regular and online mode of education. Distance students are also required to pass the respective exams in order to obtain an accredited postgraduate diploma in accordance with the state requirements.
The program of the school is focused on social skills, practical projects, teamwork, ideas protection, problem solving skills, creative thinking – skills that aim to prepare high school students for the real life and turn them into young professionals for their future employers. The team of teachers has the ambition to present the traditional material in a more interactive, intriguing and attractive way for children, in contrast with standard way of studying by memorizing without any practical tasks.
Students who study online will go in for examinations at the school several times a year. Thus, students from other high schools will be able to study in parallel at SoftUni Svetlina and to obtain the respective diploma. A live interview will be conducted with those who applied for admission, including students and parents, prior to the final admission of 60 students in the classes.
The application is already running on the site of the high school. https://svetlina.softuni.bg/
An interview with Svetlin Nakov, founder of SoftUni, is available on the website of Economy.bg.
