Serg Bell is one of the stalwart figures in the world of technology startups. This Doctor of Computer Science founded the 'unicorn' Acronis, Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT) - Switzerland and is on the Board of Directors of Jacobs University - Germany (JUB).
Founded in Singapore in 2003 and incorporated in Switzerland in 2008, today Acronis has more than 2,000 employees working from offices in 34 locations worldwide. Acronis' unified cybersecurity and data protection solutions are trusted by more than 5.5 million home users and 500,000 businesses, as well as leading professional sports teams.
Acronis products are distributed by more than 50,000 partners and service providers in over 150 countries, in 26 languages.
In early 2022, realizing the potential of the human resource market in Vietnam's technology industry, plus the "lead" of Mr. Philipp Roesler – Former Deputy Chancellor of German origin and a member of the Board of Directors of SIT and JUB; Serg Bell - Acronis came to lay the foundation of business here.
In April 2022, Acronis signed an agreement with FPT University to establish an R&D center in Vietnam. Acronis expects that: in this center, they will have hundreds to thousands of employees engaged in research and development. This 'unicorn' intends to invest between 50 and 150 million USD in its 11th R&D center.
Representative of Acronis - SIT - Jacobs University is signing a cooperation agreement with the representative of FPT University.
In addition, there is a student exchange program between FPT University and SIT and JUB. Because SIT and JUB are always looking for the best talent - including the best students from Vietnam. So, if good Vietnamese students pass a certain threshold, they will be granted scholarships.
Also according to Mr. Serg Bell: the curricula that SIT and Jacobs provide are comparable in quality to world-renowned schools like MIT or Harvard.
The purpose of both these activities is to recruit Vietnamese talents to work at Acronis' research center, to cooperate in global joint projects to improve domestic technology expertise, to bring many opportunities to the world. rich association for Vietnamese new students.
And yet, in July 2022, Acronis, SIT and JUB had many visits and surveys to establish R&D center in Vietnam, as well as expand cooperation with Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City.
After a long time of trying, according to Mr. Philipp Roesler: Currently, Acronis' R&D Center and Constructor University 's Representative Office in Ho Chi Minh City Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) are in the process of completing licensing procedures, is expected to open and come into operation in 2023. Constructor University was formed in November 2022 and is the result of the merger between SIT - JUB.
In addition, the alliance of Acronis and Constructor University also added JetBrains to the project of providing scholarships for Vietnamese students. JetBrains will offer a Master of Computer Science scholarship package to Vietnamese students at Constructor University.
Doctor of Computer Science - Serg Bell
JetBrains is a technology company based in Prague - Czech Republic with 1,000 employees working in 6 offices around the world, leading in Europe in their niche: building IDEs (also known as 'Environment') unified design' or 'Unified debugging environment'). This is a type of computer software that helps programmers in software development.
There are currently about 27-30 million people using software written with support from JetBrains products. Company revenue in 2021 is about 450 million USD, net profit is approximately 170 million USD.
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We do not discriminate against any country, but the international students from Vietnam are very talented, well educated and we are happy to support them to get a scholarship at Constructor University.
The tuition fee we offer is around 20,000 Euros for a year of Master in Computer Science, only two thirds of the average in other European countries and about half the rate in the UK. The cost of living in Bremen, the headquarters of Constructor University, is cheap and students can work 50% of the working hours a week (20 hours).
JetBrains - Acronis and the companies of our global network, will offer many opportunities for paid internships and jobs after Vietnamese students leave the school”, said Dr. Serg Bell .
Mr. Maxim Shafirov - CEO of JetBrains , continued: “
Vietnam is on the list of target countries for JetBrains to find talent. Vietnam has a promising IT human resource as well as a potential market and great economic growth. The key lies in the plans to attract and use these resources for revolutionary global projects ”.
Postgraduate course including Master's and PhD in Computer Science from Constructor University is expected to welcome around 1,000 students per year.
The number of scholarships that Constructor grants to Vietnamese students is not fixed but depends on admission. The scholarship value varies depending on the quality of the candidate and the chosen major, with the highest level being a full scholarship (full tuition fee waiver).
Quynh Nhu
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