iTStudy Hungary Ltd.

ITStudy Hungary Ltd. (ITS) was established in 1989 by qualified IT experts with intensive research and development activities, based on their academic background. All activities and products of the organisation are related to the education on the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

The average number of paid staff is between 10-12, and there are 2 unpaid trainees from Hungary, and 2 students from Spain. Usually we employ 1-2 students from universities and vocational schools in every year for summer practice, and we give support for university students’ diploma work.

ITStudy is an Accredited Hungarian Adult Educational Institute and it is an ECDL Exam Centre. The main profile of the company covers: certifications and trainings in adult and vocational education in the IT sector; delivering further training programmes for teachers on new ICT-based methods (like project-based learning, flipped classroom method); developments of vocational curricula, digital learning contents, web-based collaboration platforms, mobile applications and eLearning solutions.

The company worked for Intel Corporation, as a vendor of digital learning content for Intel®Teach Elements international platform, the localized Hungarian version of the course “Project-Based Approaches” were delivered by our developer team.

Related to these activities ITS has wide professional partnership at both national and international levels, collaborates with Hungarian and European primary and vocational secondary schools, research institutes, universities. It was the coordinator of the European LLL project: “TENEGEN - Connect the teachers to teach and reach the Net-Generation” (2008-2010) selected among the “Best practices” by the European Commission in the category of “Skills and competences of VET teachers, trainers and tutors” in 2012.

iTStudy has many years long experiences in developing and running quality assurance systems, it operated under ISO 9001 QMS during the last ten years, and in 2014 it introduced a new Quality Management System developed for the special features of the educational sector. The company initiated in 2008 the foundation an IT cluster under the name of “Innolearn - the Cluster of Knowledge Network” in order to facilitate an intensive knowledge sharing between the academic sphere and the IT industry and to generate professional collaboration among the eLearning providers. A special area of our developments is the Project and Quality Management in the education, we published a textbook for VET students on PM and we are working on a web-based solution for supporting institutional quality activities of the teachers and headmasters of vocational schools.