What is ECI?

The Escuela de Ciencias Informáticas (ECI) is held annually at Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, since 1987.

The goal of ECI is to offer Computer Science students of UBA and other universities, and practitioners intensive, top-level courses on topics not covered by the regular curricula. These courses are taught by lecturers from universities and institutions from all around the world. This way the school also offers to participants the opportunity to establish links for academic cooperation, as well as promoting research and development activities.

Each year, 400 and 800 people participate in ECI, taking one, two or three courses each. Among them, there are always many attendees from other universities in Argentina and neighbouring countries.

ECIs are successfully held every year thanks to the generous collaboration of prestigious professors and researchers from national and foreign universities, the support of Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, the collaboration of authorities and staff, and the financial support of private and public companies and institutions.

Structure of the ECI

Every ECI offers between 6 and 10 intensive courses. Each course lasts last 15 hours in total (3 hours per day from Monday to Friday) and include a final evaluation. Certificates of assistance and completion are given to students at the end of the week and upon approval of the final evaluation.

During the ECI week, additional talks, tutorials, short seminars, challenges and other events are usually held. Some of these activities are specifically addressed to industry professionals.