Higher Education is always prominent in our list of Global Citizenship responsibilities in EMEA. Our ’HP EMEA Technology for Teaching Grants’ initiative supports education professionals in applying mobile technology to learning environments across universities in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In addition, HP organisations in several countries are known for building and maintaining good relationships with local universities where HP has a presence and beyond. One such relationship is that of HP Russia and TomskUniversity.
Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR) has 12,000 students and is known as the ‘SchoolUniversity’ for providing IT education to pupils and teachers from primary and secondary schools. Tutors at the university asked a selection of prominent IT companies to support the IT department by allowing students to be exposed to their various products and to work on their hardware.
HP quickly responded to the request and formed a partnership with TUSUR to provide specialist IT education in the form of equipment for a digital laboratory which has been aptly named the ‘HP-Room’. The HP-Room was officially opened in December 2005 and we are providing further support in the form of content for the university’s IT curriculum.
TUSUR also recently invited more than 250 students from 10 regions of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan to present online and offline projects for an IT-programming competition called ‘Digital Boom’. In support of the event, we were proud to provide the winner with an HP photo printer at a special science conference.
HP Technology for Teaching Grants
In last month’s edition of Global Citizenship Bulletin, we reported on our higher education awards programme called ‘HP Technology for Teaching Grants’.
This programme offers universities HP equipment enabling a wireless IT environment to promote the innovative use of technology in education. In 2005, eight universities in EMEA were given teaching grants and, in 2006, we extended the number of recipients to 12 selected universities in EMEA.
Last month we heard from Julie Grady, HP’s University Relations Programme Manager EMEA, who met with the 2005 awards recipients to find out what they had to say about our grant programme and to see how far they had progressed with integrating their new equipment into teaching and research. Click hereto find out what they said.
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