Snapshot: Samsung Innovation Campus
What is it:
Samsung Innovation Campus helps prepare young people for tomorrow’s information technology workplace by equipping them with skills in new and emerging technology through hands-on training and classroom teaching.
The programme builds on Samsung Electronics’ previous work developing core IT competencies among students and unemployed youths, and also helps them develop crucial soft skills so they will become proactive problem-solvers.
Numbers at a glance:
⦁ Samsung began offering technological training programs for adolescents and unemployed youths in 2013
⦁ Launched Samsung Innovation Campus in 2019
⦁ Courses taught include coding and programming, artificial intelligence (AI), big data and the Internet of Things (IoT)
⦁ Develops soft skills like creativity, communication and empathy
⦁ Active in more than 30 countries around the world
⦁ Some 120,000 students have participated since 2019
