Company profile

About us

Company Profile
The GOPAS IT Training Centre is the largest information technology training provider on the Czech and Slovak markets. Each year, nearly 30,000 student (mostly IT specialists) choose to attend our courses.
Despite operating on quite a small market, GOPAS is one of the major IT training providers in Europe.

Market position and quality management
Since its founding, GOPAS has primarily focused on IT trainings. Its top priorities are quality of service and customer satisfaction. Our clients‘ loyal patronage and recommendations help support our long-term growth and position us as the market leader. The quality of our services is further underscored by the ISO 9001 certification, accreditation for requalification courses by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, and the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner authorization, which GOPAS was the first training centre in the Czech Republic to receive.
 


Education and client-orientation
Currently, GOPAS is offering 2,000 courses and trainings in all types of information technology. We cooperate with software developers and with their help develop so-called “authorized courses” for each area. In areas not covered by authorised courses, GOPAS develops its own original ones based on customer requests and demand.

Instructors – Experts in the field
Our courses are lead by experienced certified instructors with sound knowledge as well as the necessary pedagogical and presentation skills. Their education is ensured through an internal certification system. The basic prerequisite for all our lecturers is the widely recognised MCT title (Microsoft Certified Trainer), but most of our instructors have achieved much higher levels of our multitier education system.

GOPAS offers hard-skill courses for IT specialists and app users as well as soft-skill courses for managers in charge of IT departments or managers in IT supplier companies.

2022
  • 30th anniversary of GOPAS
  • 20th TechEd Conference
  • 1st hybrid conferences
2021
  • ATC Circle of Excellence Award
  • 1st JAVAScript Days ONLINE
  • 1st Annual Python Day ONLINE
2020
  • Announcement of the epidemic state of nosus by the Czech government, closure of branches, launch of ONLINE courses
  • First ONLINE conference Teched Devcon 2020, proceeds from this confrence were donated to a home for the elderly in Prague Vršovice to fight Covid
  • LLPA - award MICROSOFT PARTNER OF THE YEAR 2020 FOR LEARNING
  • Exclusive distributor of MOS vouchers of the Certipotrt platform
2019
  • 1th DevOps Day Conference
  • Accreditation in Prometric Academic Testing
  • EC-Council ATC Award – Circle of Excellence ATC
2018
  • 1th Power BI Conference
  • 1th Managerial Conference ManDay
  • Gains DASA Training Partner authorization
  • Interconnected classrooms system operational (Telepresence training)
2017
  • Becomes QA Authorised Reseller
2016
  • 1st JavaDays Conference
    Red Hat Alliance Training Partner
2015
  • Gains EDB authorization for PostresSql courses
  • Associates with ITpreneurs Holland
  • CompTIA Authorized Partner
  • EC-Council Awards – Circle of Excellence for ATC and William Ischanoe
  • Brno branch becomes part of TITANIUM Business Complex
2014
  • Gains exclusive membership (for both Czech and Slovak Republic) in the  LLPA (Leading Learning Partner Association)
  • Accreditation for courses PRINCE2 and ITIL
  • EC-Council Awards – Circle of Excellence ATC
  • EC-Council Awards – William Ischanoe – Circle of Excellence Instructor (also received in 2015, 2016, 2017 a 2019)
    (toto ocenění získáno takp v letech 2015, 2016, 2017 a 2019)
2013
  • 1st HackerFest Conference
  • SAP Partner
  • IBM Global Knowledge Education Provider authorization
  • IREB Training Provider authorization
  • Becomes SUSE Authorized Training Partner
2012
  • Becomes EC-Council Accredited Training Center
  • EC-Council Best Newcommer of the Year Award
2011
  • First Microsoft Partner Gold Learning in Czech Republic
  • Becomes a member of International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP)
2010
  • Becomes Pearson VUE Authorised Centre Select for GMAT testing
  • Becomes ORACLE GOLD Partner
  • ECDL Advanced Accreditation
  • Becomes a member of People Management Forum (former ČSRLZ)
  • GOPAS TechEd – DevCon founded
2009
  • Pinnacle Authorization
2006
  • Becomes Adobe Authorized Training Center
2005
  • Becomes Hewlett-Packard Expert One Learning Partner
2004
  • Subsidiary, GOPAS SR, a.s., is founded in Bratislava
2002
  • 1st TechEd Conference
  • Is the first training centre in Czech and Slovak Republic to become a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner for Learning Solutions in 2002
  • Member of the Association of Adult Education Institutions in the Czech Republic
  • E-learning – Microsoft Office 2000
  • 18 classrooms in Prague, 5 in Brno
2001
  • Authorized SUN Education Reseller
  • Becomes authorized VUE Testing Center (now Pearson VUE)
  • Becomes authorized Microsoft Office Specialist
2000
  • Launch of our own e-learning courses on the market
1999
  • Gains ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) accreditation
  • Becomes a member of ICT Union
1998
  • Sylvan Prometric Testing Centre authorization (now Prometric)
  • New branch opens in Brno
1997
  • Becomes ORACLE  Approved Education Center (now ORACLE University Partner)
1996
  • Certified in quality management in concordance with ISO 9001
  • MŠMT (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports) accreditation for IT requalification trainings
1994
  • Becomes Microsoft ATEC (Authorised Training Education Center)
1993
  • SCO Advanced Certified Engineer programme starts
  • Receives Gold Award of the Year 1993 from SCO for the second best authorized training centre in Europe, Asia and Africa
  • Moves to current address in Palác Kodaňská Praha Vršovice (3 computer classrooms)
1992
  • Becomes SCO Authorised Education Centre
  • First course completed (SCO Unix) under the umbrella of GOPAS (Karlovo náměstí – Czech Technical University in Prague)