EU co-funded project inaugurates computer lab at RTU

MANILA, Philippines - The European IT Service Center Foundation (EITSC), in partnership with Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF), through a European Union co-funded project entitled “Establishment of Market-driven and Technology-based Courses and Further Training for the Information Technology Sector in the National Capital Region, Philippines,” inaugurated recently the EITSC Computer Laboratory at the Rizal Technological University (RTU).

Distinguished guests present during the inauguration were RTU president Dr. Jose Macaballug, EITSC president Henry Schumacher; HSF Philippines resident representative Paul Schaefer; the Delegation of the European Commission to the Philippines deputy head of contracts and finance Johan Snijckers; Jose Maria Medina Navarro, Young Expert Operations section, Delegation of the European Commission to the Philippines and Ting Victorino, City Administrator of Mandaluyong City. The EITSC Computer Laboratory in RTU is EITSC’s second offsite training venue.

The 63-sqm facility is equipped with 21 computers, a projector, a wall-mounted screen and furniture worth P885,000 for use in the delivery of RTU’s general training and computer instruction as well as EITSC’s training programs. The computer laboratory will expand EITSC’s outreach capability and enhance industry-academe partnership in improving competencies and increasing employability through the delivery of market-driven and technology-based education and training for students, teachers, graduates, and professionals as well as the under-skilled, under-privileged, urban poor, out-of-school youths, and other marginalized members of society.

Garry Fabros, a wheel-chair bound student and employee of the Mandaluyong local government in his speech during the inauguration said that his enabled him to perform better in his job.