WE ARE EDUCATING FUTURE LEADERS AND EXPERTS OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN OUR SOCIETY AND ORGANISATIONS.

Estonia’s e-government and the country’s other innovative e-solutions have grown into one of Europe’s success stories of the last decade. TalTech has taken a leap into the future of e-Governance education. Largely focusing on IT solutions at governmental level, its interoperability between different faculties in the university is giving fundamental background also in other aspects (law, public management and economics) of government. The programme is especially important due to the fact that it is unique in Estonia and in Europe and the demand for the specialist with broad knowledge in e-governance is increasing tremendously.

Overview

The programme gives students broad knowledge on developing a modern state, its transition to e-governance and paperless management. Studies include a wide overview of administrative and legal aspects of e-governance.

What you can expect from this Master's programme:

• Experienced lectures
• Access to world-class know-how
• Hands-on collaboration with practitioners in the field

Why this programme?

• The programme focuses on designing, developing and improving governmental systems and implementing e-government components on every state level
• Specialisation in IT, innovation/services in public and private sectors or adoption and marketing of e-governance
• User-oriented services offered by government that are based on ICT
• Offers experience in the field, practical research and project work already during studies
• Curriculum is closely related to “e-state technologies laboratory” offering students a possibility to do research in e-governance field as well as take part in new development projects

Curriculum Outline (120 ECTS)

• General studies - cover information society principles: towards e-Governance, legal framework of e-governance, introduction to IT and eGov technologies, software process and quality, IT Solutions of e-government, etc.
• Core studies - include such courses as e-Governance technologies and services master's project, enterprise architecture and BPM, introduction to development in cloud, Basics of e-Health, etc.
• Special studies - consist of courses about foundations of cyber security, public sector service design and implementation, information management and digital archiving, impact and measurement of e-Governance, entrepreneurship project, etc.
• Free choice courses - students can choose from the wide variety of courses offered at the university.
• Graduation thesis - a practical written project with a strong theoretical background focused on e-Governance and ICT.