Unicamp is the newest member of Samsung Ocean, the company's innovation and technological training program. A physical space is now available at the university's innovation hub, with complete infrastructure for activities that, for the first time, will be carried out online due to social distancing. The courses, lectures and workshops offered will be integrated with the Universities of São Paulo (USP) and the State of Amazonas (UEA), in Manaus, which already have a partnership with the Samsung initiative.
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The new Ocean unit is located in the Unicamp Scientific and Technological Park. The Samsung program offers technological training to the community and encourages the creation of technology-based companies (startups). With modern facilities, the program offers free technical training combined with topics related to usability and entrepreneurship, in addition to contact with company and market experts. More than 86 people have already gone through the program and around 3.700 training sessions, workshops and events have been held through the initiative.
“We are pleased to announce Ocean Unicamp as the project’s newest unit. Strategically, it will be a reference point to meet the demand of Campinas and the region, which have a strong vocation for technological innovations. The physical space of the program is prepared for face-to-face and online activities, with integration between units. The expansion is part of Samsung's strategy to continue fulfilling its mission of training professionals with an up-to-date look at the demands of the job market”, said Eduardo Conejo, Senior Innovation Manager in the Research and Development area at Samsung.
“It is a joy for Unicamp to be part of the group of universities that have an Ocean unit, an innovative model of opportunities in several technological areas. Ocean Unicamp will be close to our teaching and research units, and in contact with companies incubated and children of Unicamp, and will certainly add more value to an ecosystem that is becoming stronger every day around our university. We hope that Ocean's activities, integrated with other units, can bring many benefits to all innovation actors in the region”, highlights Dean Marcelo Knobel, Project's coordenador.
Wave of courses
Since April, Samsung has unified the Ocean Manaus and São Paulo courses and adapted to the new reality to promote monthly cycles of courses, lectures and workshops in an online format, with varied programs that highlight topics that are trending in the technology market, such as Blockchain, Bixby (virtual assistant created by the company), Internet of Things, Python, Unity, among others. In December, the ninth wave of courses is taking place. To the inscriptions can be done via the website or via the Samsung Ocean app, available for download on the Play Store.
IoT Week
Between November 30th and December 3rd, Samsung promotes Intelligence of Things Week (IoT Week), with free online lectures and workshops promoted by Ocean in partnership with the Universities of São Paulo (USP) and the State of Amazonas (UEA) . All activities focus on Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Digital Technologies, with an approach focused on market trends. Registration can be done via website. Vacancies are limited.
About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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About Samsung Corporate Citizenship programs
Believing that Education and Technology are tools of empowerment, Samsung encourages students and teachers to reach their potential with positive social change in their communities to build a better world for all. The company has reached 360 people with corporate social responsibility programs throughout Brazil since 2010, accumulating 128 hours of technological training. The Answers for Tomorrow program has already had the participation of 175 thousand students and teachers. Samsung also maintains the UNICEF Samsung Marathon, Code IoT, Samsung Creative Startups and Samsung Ocean as programs in Brazil.
