TalTech IT College hosted a focused Industry-Academia Roundtable bringing together 20 participants from 10 companies and universities to discuss how artificial intelligence and soft skills can be better integrated into early-stage IT education.
The event, part of the DITEC project, explored industry expectations and practical ways to co-create new micro-courses that support both technical and soft-skills development. These micro-courses will be piloted in companies and at TalTech.
The programme included short presentations from Andres Käver, Janika Leoste, Slavko Rakić, and Helmut Honermann, covering AI use in programming, soft-skills integration, AI-based course mentoring, and industry hiring expectations.
Participants then worked in groups to identify the most important missing soft skills in junior IT professionals. The outputs-industry case studies-will now be integrated into ongoing TalTech courses to strengthen students’ communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and responsible AI competences.
The event concluded with networking and demonstrations of robot assistants, telepresence robots, and AI-didactics prototypes from the IT Didactics Research Group.
