Offer SEA:ME at your institution

We have designed SEA:ME to be available for other institutions wanting to offer free education, with flexible admission options ranging from open admissions to internal selections, ensuring accessibility and continuous opportunity for all aspiring students.

SEA:ME is designed to be shared – for maximum impact on improving mobility – and for improving the lives of more students. We want to put SEA:ME on the global map as an example of how to inspire and qualify students both for good career / life opportunities and for becoming impactful in shaping better mobility for the future. Including mobility options beyond individual use of cars and trucks. And very much including the joint innovation potential of the two great pillars of current mobility trends: software and electric engines.

This is why we have designed it as a non-profit offer to other institutions that want to educate students for free. It can be offered to existing students of an educational institution who want to specialize in mobility software development, or as an open admissions process where anyone can apply. The creators of SEA:ME in Wolfsburg have trialed an open admissions process, vetting each candidate in a “rolling admissions” process of individual assessment and continuous admission throughout the year. But of course, internal selection or competitive admission toward a fixed group starting date may work just as well.

Why use SEA:ME?

By using the SEA:ME curriculum, students can be educated in a very short time of 6-12 months, with current learning content that keeps getting updated to stay relevant to industry needs and ahead of emerging trends. Students are trained in practical problem-solving skills, in team work abilities, and in the structured agile workflow of real-life software developer teams. By training them in this way, educational institutions can both provide new opportunity to students as a charitable effort and at the same time work with industry partners in need of new talent. 

How to set up SEA:ME

Institutions wanting to offer this curriculum set up a lab environment with learning hardware and furnishings, as well as basic pedagogical support staff (learning facilitators, usually recent IT graduates). Each replication should also have an experienced coordinator who comes from the mobility coding domain and has work experience in designing software for relevant applications. Students learning in SEA:ME can only successfully solve the advanced-level learning projects if they a) work in teams, b) follow a structured agile workflow and reporting requirements that are reviewed by staff, and c) can call on advice if they get stuck. Then – given such a lab learning environment with agile processes and basic staff support – students can thrive on their own. Due to the strength of the curriculum design and the testing and improvement it has already undergone. 

How to offer SEA:ME to students

Sharing SEA:ME is done in a non-profit / non-commercial setting. Meaning that institutions using it do also offer it free of charge to students, and do not charge them or third parties direct fees. Of course SEA:ME deployment can be supported by sponsors / donors, as long as these do not tie direct conditions to their support (such as: “How many graduates do we “get” for sum x?”). 

By definition, SEA:ME students remain free to choose how and where to employ their new skills. However: Sponsors / donors can be given special exposure to students, and can be encouraged to actively engage with students. By providing workshops, industry briefings, “knowledge-sharing” sessions with professionals working in the jobs that students train for, company visits, hackathon challenges, etc. In such an organic way, employers inspire SEA:ME students to apply to their jobs or internships. Because the students see the employers and their staff members as great places and great people to work with. 

How to get started

Toward its goal of spreading SEA:ME learning opportunities, its owners offer advice and support to institutions interested in replicating the curriculum. We are proud of our product, and happy to inspire others and help them get started. 

So: If you are interested in using SEA:ME or learning whether it can work for you as an institution, just approach us at contact@seame.space.