From left: Mr Nick Dobrovolskiy and Professor Ernest Cachia
Malta, November, 30, 2018. Parallels, an international IT-company, a global leader in cross-platform solutions, became a Gold Partner of the Faculty of Information & Communication Technology (FICT) of the University of Malta in 2016. Today the Company continues its constant support of students within FICT through the provision of modern IT tools.
Co-founder and Vice president of Parallels, Mr Nick Dobrovolskiy and Parallels Director of Academic Programs, Anton Diaikin met with Professor Ernest Cachia, Dean of the Faculty of ICT and Head of the Department of Computer Information Systems, and FICT students.
Parallels donated 60 product licenses to the University of Malta for the use of key Parallels products, namely Parallels Desktop for Mac, Parallels Access and Parallels Toolbox. These products are being offered for everyday use by staff and students. The University of Malta and Parallels also discussed long-term partnership and possibilities for mutual cooperation. This was supplemented by very interesting communication and discussion with FICT students.
'Our developers in Malta and other locations all over the world strive to create modern and functional software both for personal and professional use. We are happy to collaborate with the University of Malta and to be able to contribute to the better opportunities for work and development, given to its students.' - Nick Dobrovolskiy, Vice President of Parallels.
'The Faculty of ICT welcomes such encouraging initiatives from industrial partners. This kind of support only goes to further strengthen the relevance and quality of our education On behalf of the Faculty of ICT, I would like to thank Parallels for their generous and forward-looking initiative' – Ernest Cachia, Dean, Faculty of ICT.
About Parallels
Parallels is a global leader in cross-platform solutions which make it possible and simple for customers to use and access the applications and files they need on any device or operating system. We help customers take advantage of the best technology out there, whether it’s Windows, Mac, iOS, Android TM or the cloud. Parallels solves complex engineering and user experience problems by making it simple and cost-effective for businesses and individual customers to use applications wherever they may be—local, remote, in the private datacenter or in the cloud. Visit www.parallels.com/about for more information.