Samsung Russia won the Runet award in the Education and Human Resources category

December 8, 2021 — The Samsung Innovation Campus program won Runet 2021 Prize National Award in the «Education and Human Resources» category. The ceremony took place on 7 December.

Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC) is a global social and educational program aimed at developing and supporting young IT talents. The program is part of Samsung’s corporate social responsibility concept “Together for Tomorrow! Enabling People «.

Russia became the first country where the program was launched, represented by two main projects: «Samsung IT School» — helps schoolchildren in grades 9-10 gain knowledge and practical skills in developing mobile applications in Java for the Android platform, and «Samsung IT Academy» focused on the development of IT competence centers in Russian universities and IT education for students. A new SIC project in Russia is the online course «Galaxy Upcycling — New Life for an Old Smartphone», dedicated to the possibilities of recycling outdated electronics and promoting respect for nature and conscious consumption. The content of SIC programs in Russia was developed by Samsung R&D Institute Russia and Samsung AI Center — Moscow specialists.

“This year Samsung celebrates 30 years since the beginning of its work in Russia. All these years we have been paying great attention to supporting significant social projects in the field of culture and education. We are very pleased that in this memorable, jubilee year, our initiatives in the field of education received such a high award! ”- commented Sergey Pevnev, Director of Corporate Citizenship and Government Relations of Samsung Electronics CIS RHQ.

The Samsung Innovation Campus program is implemented in 23 countries around the world and is aimed at young people aged 18-25, promoting the acquisition of knowledge and professional skills in the field of IT. About 160,000 students around the world have already completed their training under the program. This November, Samsung Innovation Campus was awarded first place in the Leaders of the Future nomination of the All-Russian Contest of Best Practices in the Social and Humanitarian Sphere «Creating the Future».

Previously, Samsung Electronics has already received the Runet Prize. In 2015, the company was awarded in the special nomination «Mobile Runet» for the «Living Pages» project, which presents works of classical Russian literature in an interactive format of a mobile application. In 2016, the «Samsung IT School» educational project received an honorary Runet statuette. In 2017, Samsung entered the visionary HOT LIST 2018, presented at the 2017 Runet Prize ceremony. The company has been named a trendsetter for virtual reality and the Internet of Things.

The Runet Prize is a nationwide award in the field of high technologies and the Internet that recognizes outstanding achievements of leading companies in the field of information technology and electronic communications, government and public organizations, business structures, as well as individual figures who have made a significant contribution to the development of the Russian segment of the Internet. The prize has been awarded since 2004.

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