Mobile Application Development Training Begins at Bahçeşehir University in Collaboration with Huawei

Bahçeşehir University announced that it has launched the course "Mobile Application Development with Huawei Mobile Services" for undergraduate engineering students.

According to a statement from the company, Huawei Türkiye has added a new one to the academic collaborations it carries out to bring new talent to the information technologies (IT) sector. With the course "Mobile Application Development with Huawei Mobile Services," Bahçeşehir University students experience how new applications for the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) ecosystem are developed, accompanied by Huawei's expert R&D engineers.

Within the scope of the program, engineers from the Huawei Türkiye R&D Center aim to share their industry experience along with both theoretical and practical instruction with Bahçeşehir University students, thereby preparing them for the IT sector.

The courses, which started on 11 October within the scope of the "CO-OP CampusMyWorkplace" education model implemented by Bahçeşehir University to integrate education and working life, will continue for 14 weeks in the 2021 fall semester. The courses, which students of Bahçeşehir University's Departments of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering can take as electives, began with basic training on the Android operating system. In later stages of the course, students will experience the details of the HarmonyOS operating system and Huawei Mobile Services.

"21 universities have joined the ICT Academy program"

Huawei Türkiye Corporate Communications Manager Vahit Bora, whose views were included in the statement, said they find their collaborations with universities very valuable for the development of the country's IT ecosystem.

Stating that they are training more students in information technologies with the ICT Academy program they launched last year, Bora said: "In fields such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and cloud computing, a total of 21 public and private universities have joined the ICT Academy program to date, and the number of students benefiting has reached one thousand. In the first half of the year, we also collaborated with Yalova University on HMS training."

According to the statement, the Huawei Türkiye R&D Center will continue to collaborate more intensively with universities and, accordingly, student clubs within the scope of the Huawei Student Developers (HSD) program. More than 60 mobile services development engineers working at the Huawei Türkiye R&D Center provide support to application developers in Europe, Latin America and Türkiye.