Bringing OutSystems to the Universities

Yesterday we welcomed University of Sussex Computer Sciences senior lecturer Kingsley Sage to discuss our upcoming plans to bring OutSystems and low-code into our Universities.

As part of our commitment to "Giving Back to Our Communities”, we are passionate about helping potential talent be fully aware of everything that is out there. It is important that future developers get the opportunity to learn the newest, cutting-edge technologies in their field.

To fulfil this objective, we have built a collaboration with OutSystems’ Education programme.

Our University Collaboration team - Evgeni Urumov, Inês Pena, Rehman Shabab, Victor Coroliov and Matas Povilonis, with University of Sussex Computer Sciences lecturer Kingsley Sage

Starting this month, we will be the first OutSystems partner in the UK to roll out a fully fledged Education Programme. Working with the University of Sussex, we are making the OutSystems low-code platform one of the technologies made available to students.

OutSystems are providing the University with a full license for their platform and certification, completely free of charge. To support this we are organising workshops, jumpstarts and hackathons for students, led by our own developers. Some of our best developers are students currently on their placement year - such as Victor, Rehman, Matas and Alex - and they will be joining us at the University to bring their peers their own personal stories of what it is like to work full-time as a developer, and their experiences with us and OutSystems. 

This is an extraordinary opportunity to give back to our local institutions, providing valuable tools for young people entering the workforce and helping lecturers arm their curriculum with the newest technology solutions. The longer term objective is to help populate the industry landscape with OutSystems-certified professionals.

 We are incredibly excited to be taking the first steps with University of Sussex and look forward to witnessing all the potential benefits that we hope will come from it - better informed student developers and evangelising low-code as the next rung in the abstraction ladder away from hand-coding.