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SHENZHEN, China, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

UNESCO and Huawei have to date run ten Campus UNESCO sessions

(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB44wtjdbAz6HZfMUPtoubw/featured), focusing

on technology and education and reaching students from 39 schools in 21

countries.

Campus UNESCO is an ongoing program that gives young people aged 14 to 18 the

chance to share views with experts from UNESCO and civil society. The topics

discussed in each 90-minute session in either English or French are linked to

major UNESCO themes such as education, artificial intelligence, sustainable

development, gender equality, and citizenship.

Huawei has been partnering with UNESCO on the program since June 2021. The

sessions have covered a wide variety of topics, including the relationship

between technology and education, new technologies for today and tomorrow, and

how technology can be used for good. Topics relevant to current issues that

rose on the global agenda when the pandemic closed school doors in 2020 were

especially welcomed by the students, including the changes brought to schools

that either have or lack technology, and the necessity of physical schools when

everything can be found on the Internet.

"We believe the SDG and COVID challenges are incredible ingredients for

innovation," said Dr. Valtencir Mendes, Senior Programme Specialist, UNESCO at

one of the campuses.

Other issues of focus during campus sessions have been the value of digital

skills and new behaviors to prevent cyberbullying, a threat that is on the rise

for many teenagers in an increasingly digital world where social media is

prevalent and when young people are outside the classroom.

Sharing their experiences and views with expert speakers can raise awareness

among young people, not just about how new technologies will impact today and

tomorrow, but the role that today's teenagers can have in shaping the future.

As well as UNESCO experts, other speakers include inspirational people from the

organization's networks, such as NGOs, IGOs, startups, spanning a wide range of

roles, including scientists, researchers, and local development project

managers.

Aligned with the aims of Campus UNESCO, Huawei and UNESCO are also partnering

on the "Technology-enabled Open Schools for All" project

(https://en.unesco.org/themes/ict-education/teoss), the implementation phase of

which was launched in 2021 in Ghana, Egypt, and Ethiopia. The three-year

project is supporting the construction of resilient education systems that can

withstand global disruptions such as COVID-19. In addition to connecting

schools, the project is providing training for teachers and students in the use

of digital tools, establishing online platforms to link school and home

learning, and developing digital curricula that can be accessed remotely.

The "Technology-enabled Open Schools for All" project is aligned with the

Tech4Education domain of Huawei's digital inclusion initiative TECH4ALL, which

aims to drive education equity and quality with technology under the major aim

of TECH4ALL: to leave no one behind in the digital world.

View the series on the Huawei TECH4ALL official website:

https://www.huawei.com/en/tech4all/stories/bridging-technology-education-campus-unesco

Source: Huawei

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