The first three students, who attended a customized three-day training course, came from CETIS, a Slovenian printing company that manufactures plastic cards and passports and is also involved in special projects such as the Slovenian Census. CETIS, the supplier of the current Slovenian passport, is aiming to win one of the e-passport projects that will be implemented in Slovenia and its neighboring countries within this year.

The course designed by the SmartWorldAcademy covered topics such as fundamentals of microcontroller smart card technology, card communication protocols and principles of traditional filesystem oriented operating systems and Javacard, with examples demonstrated on FlashCOS and JCOP 20 respectively.

Comments from CETIS were extremely positive. “Thanks to the support of the SmartWorldAcademy, for the first time we were able to really understand and appreciate the overall system rather than isolated facts”, said the students. “The trainer has sound technical knowledge, presented the relevant topics clearly and established a good working dynamic with the team of students.”

Petr Novák, Director of SmartWorldAcademy, comments, “With the success of our first customized training course, we are now fully prepared to conduct all of the courses that we have originally planned and look forward to welcoming the next students at the end of this month.”

Provider of technical training courses covering hot topics such as PKI, access control, time and attendance, identification and authentication, loyalty and multi-application schemes, as well as international and industry standards for microcontroller and dual interface cards, the SmartWorldAcademy, located in Prague, was launched in February 2004. The vendor independent training center offers courses designed for system integrators, card manufacturers and solution providers.

Further information can be found on: www.smartworldacademy.com

About ACG Based in Walluf, near Wiesbaden (Germany), ACG Identification GmbH is a leading component and technology supplier in the smart card and RFID markets. The company has 18 locations, through Europe, North and South Americas, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. ACG is part of the ASSA ABLOY Identification Technology Group, the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of identification solutions.

About ASSA ABLOY Identification Technology Group (ITG) ASSA ABLOY ITG is focused on current and emerging identification solutions within the radio frequency identification (RFID) and smart card markets. With headquarters in Irvine, CA, ITG employs approximately 770 people worldwide. In addition to a Research and Development Center, ITG consists of the companies HID, Indala, CTS, Interlock, Cubit, BUGA, Sokymat, OMNIKEY, Access ID, ACG Identification, ITG Europe, Middle East, and Africa, ITG Asia Pacific, and ITG Latin America. The ASSA ABLOY Group is the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of locking solutions. The Group has about 30,000 employees and annual sales of about EUR3 billion.

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Katja Dienz ACG Identification GmbH Am Klingenweg 6A 65396 Walluf Germany Phone: +49 6123 791 205 Email: katja.dienz@acg.de

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