Belgium Campus iTversity has partnered with UiPath, a global leader in agentic automation, to advance its training capabilities in software automation and AI.
By becoming an UiPath Academic Alliance member, the education institution will access UiPath’s market-leading automation and AI curricula, enhancing its ability to provide courses in cutting-edge technology to South Africa’s future workforce.
The partnership enables students to actively participate in a new world of rapid technological advancements by offering access to a full curriculum of automation and AI courses. This enhances their employability and makes it possible for them to pursue market-leading UiPath training, providing them with a gateway to one of the most dynamic automation and AI ecosystems globally.
This partnership provides students and educators with access to UiPath’s automation and AI curricula, software licenses, and certification opportunities, preparing them for careers in an increasingly automated world, explains Zaaiman.
Moreover, the relationship offers learners hands-on experience through industry-leading automation tools, which aligns with Belgium Campus’ goal of producing graduates ready to be leaders in their fields.
By integrating UiPath’s resources into our curriculum, we ensure that our students are at the forefront of technological advancements, ready to contribute to digital transformation initiatives across various industries. Through UiPath Academic Alliance status, Belgium Campus iTversity reinforces its commitment to providing internationally recognised IT education, says Zaaiman.
Through the partnership, Belgium Campus iTversity will also be able to launch its own UiPath Excellence Program Pilot. The move will provide greater depth of content that will offer advanced, structured learning pathways designed to take students from foundational automation skills to professional developer-level competencies.
Belgium Campus iTversity will also be represented at this year’s UiPath Academic Alliance Summit, taking place 8-9 May in Goa, India, where internationally renowned visionary educator, Ms. Jacqui Muller will be in attendance to discuss the co-creation of models for scaling academic excellence.
Jacqui Muller has been recognised by UiPath as a Visionary Educator for 2024 and has been named an international Most Valued Professional by the company several times. She is the only woman in Africa to hold this title.
Dr Jannie Zaaiman, CE of Education & Academic Collaboration, Belgium Campus iTversity
Belgium Campus’ course material already includes aspects of robotics, which translates to projects such as robot races and a recent partnership with Penn State University to construct a small-scale vertical farming robot. Now we will be able to offer our students additional hands-on skills development in the exciting field of software automation and AI, unlocking even more potential. By integrating UiPath’s resources into our curriculum, we ensure that our students are at the forefront of technological advancements, ready to contribute to digital transformation initiatives across various industries. Through UiPath Academic Alliance status, Belgium Campus iTversity reinforces its commitment to providing internationally recognised IT education.
Florin Grigorescu, EMEA Head of UiPath Academic Alliance
When we launched the UiPath Academic Alliance, we took on the mission to democratise automation training to prevent the emergence of a skills gap and make sure that the workforce of the future has easy access to valuable automation and AI skills. We are proud to have Belgium Campus iTversity join our program as it expands its reputation as a world-class institution that offers its students critical automation and AI tools they need to succeed on the job market.
