Educational Academic Services

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ACTIVITY IDENTIFICATION
Activity Name	Educational Academic Services.
Short Description	Reach out to Academic Institutions worldwide
Related Projects	Education Project
Email Contacts & Roles	Primary Kuai Hinojosa	Secondary Andrzej Targosz	Mailing list edu_academic_services

ACTIVITY SPECIFICS
Objectives	1) Encourage academic institutions to provide meeting space at least 2x per year and include OWASP in the education awareness & curriculum to students 2) Encourage students to apply for OWASP Grants and provide a support structure 3) Encourage faculty, staff and students to participate in local and international events/meetings and contribute to OWASP projects Current Status Incorporating OWASP into the following top 5 Universities, within the next 12 months by introducing OWASP training and education resources at University's events. 1) New York University 2) Cornell University 3) Princeton University 4) University of Minnesota 5) Columbia University Organize OWASP EU Roadshow by Polish Universities to promote conference and OWASP. We are gonna to set it up on April 2009. 'TODO
Deadlines	01/30/2010
Status	Engaged 3 Universities at this time So far I have been able to attract NYU-Poly, NKU, UCI and DSU. I am still working on my targeted Universities. We need to engage some Unversities from EU.
Resources	*Education Project *Training materials About to pilot OWASP U series of podcast - This will be a series of education podcasts with demos of OWASP tools and interviews of influential members of Universities, similar to itunes U.