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University students get training with Scala digital signage software

March 8, 2009

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Scala, a provider of end-to-end connected digital signage software, has announced that Mikropo, its certified partner in Hungary, has provided Dennis Gabor Applied University's students access to Scala software. The university will use the software as a tool for the creative development and education of its students. This marks the first time Scala has been used in an educational capacity in Hungary.

Dennis Gabor Applied University was established in 1992 and is a private institute accredited by the Hungarian Government. The aim of the university is to provide students with a thorough grounding in a range of technical subjects including Information Technology, Technical Engineering and Business Management which leads to internationally recognized degrees at BSc and BA standards. To date, more than 10,000 students have successfully graduated from the university and have entered the international information technology, Web development and computer-aided design markets, among others.

Having identified that Scala's creative and technical competencies could be useful to educators and students at Dennis Gabor Applied University, Mikropo worked with the university to offer students the opportunity to use Scala as a content creation and design tool to complement their multimedia-focused syllabus.

"In less than two days, students have been able to use Scala to apply academic knowledge to real-life projects by first storyboarding ideas the old-fashioned way and then designing the implementation solution in Scala. It took very little time for students to understand how Scala works and to become proficient users. This has made my role as an educator significantly easier as Scala is simple to use, features many multimedia applications and provides a good creative foundation for students," said Csilla Muhari, educator and Scala trainer at Dennis Gabor Applied University.

Consequently, Dennis Gabor Applied University selected Scala as its multimedia creation software of choice over creative products from Microsoft, Adobe and Corel.

"We believe that using Scala as an education and training tool provides students with significant opportunities to develop their skills across a range of competencies not found in other software programs," said Laszlo Molnar, managing director of Mikropo. "For example, students can create animated content that contains live information from the Internet, generate multimedia applications that change according to external factors such as the weather or the news, and can embed a range of different sub-applications from databases into their own Scala-controlled multimedia environment."