In 2019, Samsung Electronics introduced a brand new CSR imaginative and prescient – Together for Tomorrow! Enabling People. The firm’s long-standing dedication to make a distinction on the planet has since centered on offering schooling for future generations; empowering kids and younger folks to attain their full potential and change into world residents able to driving constructive social change.
Along with the enlargement of its youth education schemes to an growing variety of nations worldwide, Samsung has been launching initiatives, together with a variety of Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC) packages, devoted to nurturing younger expertise around the globe – even within the face of a worldwide pandemic.
Introducing Samsung Innovation Campus Saudi Arabia
This yr, Samsung launched its newest Samsung Innovation Campus initiative in Saudi Arabia, a program devoted to supporting and nurturing younger Saudi expertise. The program, which this yr has a specific concentrate on Internet of Things (IoT) and AI, goals to assist younger folks discover long-term success by equipping them with superior {and professional} expertise.
In November 2019, representatives from Samsung Electronics and Misk Academy signal a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to nurture younger Saudi expertise
The Campus was launched in collaboration with Misk Academy, a non-profit based by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with a imaginative and prescient in keeping with Samsung’s concentrate on serving to younger folks thrive. “The SIC program aligns perfectly with Misk Academy’s mission to accelerate learners’ careers with industry-relevant skills that are in high demand in the Saudi job market,” stated Dr. Bandar Al-Hejin, Director of Programs at Misk Academy.
Even amidst the closure of in-person education introduced on by the pandemic, this system nonetheless affords its college students 240 hours of complete and sensible eLearning lectures, workouts and a capstone mission over 12 weeks.
Students of Samsung Innovation Campus Saudi Arabia take part on this yr’s on-line program
Evolving Youth Education Programs to Bridge Educational Divides
In line with the corporate’s mission of empowering and equipping future generations with the talents and assets they want, Samsung has not simply been launching on-line packages however has additionally been shifting current packages from in-person to on-line to make sure that college students’ schooling can prosper.
In 2019, Samsung efficiently launched its Samsung Innovation Campus in Turkey in partnership with United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Turkey, the Turkish Informatics Foundation (TBV) and Istanbul Technical University. The Samsung Innovation Campus in Turkey was launched to be able to equip younger Turks with important technical expertise and bridge instructional divides to reinforce the employment alternatives of all college students, an goal that the initiative continues to pursue at the same time as courses moved on-line in 2020. From February to June this yr, this system held a course titled ‘Internet of Things’ that noticed an software price of 175 purposes per out there place, and whereas the course was not performed in-person, consultants from the UNDP’s Sustainable Development Goals program and Samsung Electronics workers had been nonetheless capable of mentor, inspire and hold college students on observe by way of distance studying instruments.
“SIC offered me the opportunity to create my own project out of my own software, hardware and ideas,” affirmed Ebrar Omer, a scholar of the Samsung Innovation Campus in Turkey’s program. “The experience really refreshed my self-confidence and strengthened my belief that I can actually achieve something.” Fellow scholar Naime Akgun expressed her appreciation for this system’s concentrate on IoT; “As my software knowledge grew at SIC, so did my interest in the field. I firmly believe that, in the future, we can develop effective solutions to the world’s problems using IoT.”
A scholar of the Samsung Innovation Campus…
