The West University of Timisoara (UVT) continues to develop a series of study programs and partnership projects, carried out in cooperation with partners from the business environment or administration, through which thematic areas where digital and online technologies are located are deepened: cybersecurity, investment frauds, deepfakes, password security, social engineering, crypto, artificial intelligence or machine learning. In this context, AmCham Romania (American Chamber of Commerce in Romania) invited member companies and local enterprises to the event "Cybersecurity and dual-use technologies", organized in partnership with UVT, which will take place on May 28, 2025, between 09:00 and 17:00, at Iulius Congress Hall in Timișoara.
This event also included an application visit to the UVT Laboratory of Cybersecurity by Eviden technologies and applications (visit to be held between 15:30-17:00), during which the educational projects supported by UVT in the field of Cybersecurity will be presented, with the participation of teaching staff from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics. The Cybersecurity by Eviden Laboratory was opened in December 2024, a concrete result of the partnership between UVT and the company Eviden, a new educational infrastructure space made available to students of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics and other students from UVT.
After UVT launched a master's degree program taught exclusively in English, located in the field of Cybersecurity, based on the successful partnership initiated between UVT and Eviden, a world leader in fields such as digital, cloud, data, advanced computing and security, with deep expertise in all industries, in over 53 countries, in the summer of 2024 the partnership expanded by organizing the "EACH Eviden - AcademiaCollaboration Hub" workshop. Then, the next milestone of the partnership between Eviden and UVT was the creation of this integrated laboratory, a space equipped for Cybersecurity technologies and applications.
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UVT is among the most dynamic universities in the country, especially in terms of the development of computer security and data protection studies. Students from the Computer Science specialization, but also from other programs and faculties, are interested in the field of data security and are looking for new projects through which to evolve as specialists in this expanding field. Together with UVT's strategic partner, the company Eviden, the new Laboratory dedicated to Cybersecurity technologies and applications offers interested students an innovative space, specialized in learning, testing and piloting data security applications, an impressive endowment with computing systems that also open up future opportunities for the development of specialized data security study programs and projects.
