First Mineduc-Huawei Digital Talent training program: call for scholarships opens in China
Applications can be made through the formaciondigital.mineduc.cl site and will be open until May 26.
The Government of Chile and the technology company Huawei opened the call for the first edition of the Mineduc-Huawei Digital Talent Training Program, an initiative that will allow ten technical-professional higher education students from STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) areas travel this 2024 to the company’s headquarters in Shenzhen, China, to learn different digital skills necessary for today’s world and train in trends related to cutting-edge digital solutions.
The trip for those awarded this scholarship is scheduled for September of this year. During the visit, the young people will deepen their skills in information and communication technologies, as well as in the management of new digital alternatives, including artificial intelligence. These and other tools will be made available by the Chinese company through Huawei University, a technology education and training center.
These scholarships are the result of a collaboration agreement signed last year by the Ministry of the General Secretariat of Government (Segegob) on behalf of the Executive, with the technology company, in order to enhance the knowledge and skills of the new generations linked to technical and professional education, as a boost to digital literacy in Chile.
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Who can apply?
Regular students of a career may choose to be part of this program STEM professional technician in higher education institutions in the country, with good academic performance (average over 5.5) and with an intermediate and/or advanced level of proficiency in English, since classes will be held in that language.
Each of the scholarships includes airfare, transfers, food and accommodation so that students can concentrate on learning and making the most of their stay in some cities in China.
Applications will be open between April 19 and May 26, until 11:59 p.m. Interested students should enter the minisite dedicated to scholarships within the website of the Ministry of Education, https://formaciondigital.mineduc.cl/. The program calls for another ten students to travel in 2025.
There, after reviewing in detail the requirements to apply, each student must fill out the online form where background information is requested that accredits their status as a regular student of a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) career in a Chilean technical-professional higher education center.
The Mineduc-Huawei Digital Talent Training Program is not the only one promoted by the Chinese government and companies. They are also working on a digital skills update program for primary and secondary school teachers in the country, an initiative in which they collaborate with UNESCO.
The program seeks to identify areas related to technologies and digitalization where teachers and education professionals are lacking, in order to offer courses that improve their skills. The pilot of the teacher training program is being carried out in our country and the horizon is to replicate it in other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in the future.
The Undersecretary of Higher Education, Víctor Orellana, He indicated that “this is an example of public-private collaboration, since in order to articulate and face the challenges that higher education has in the future, we require a close link with the productive sector. Today, technologies are transforming both the work experience and the experience of studying, and this requires working together.”
“We hope to be able to scale this program, reach more people and eventually more companies, and we hope that young people and students will apply, because this allows them an opportunity that perhaps without this agreement they would not have,” he added.
The Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Huawei Chile, Marcelo Pino, stressed that “we are proud to open applications for these scholarships, which are a new instrument, where we work together with the authorities to reduce the digital divide. We know that promoting the generation of new talent is essential for the country to be a digital hub within Latin America.”