As the spread and impact of COVID-19 continues unfolding around the world, we need to be more alert, and more decisive than ever –responding constantly to changing conditions, while keeping an eye on the future, to ensure preparedness when better times return. With containment efforts still unpredictable, the epidemic will continue taking a huge toll -on people, communities and on all aspects on everyday life. Travel restrictions, border closures and mandatory quarantine make traveling almost impossible. With these uncertainties, it is important to make an agile response and maintain the momentum around Huawei’s flagship CSR program –Seeds for the Future –by making it accessible online “Seeds for the Future-SKY”. This will be a 5-days online interactive program delivered by Huawei Technologies’ experts from 7th-11th September, 2020.
Our objectives are to:
For this year “Seeds for the Future-Sky” Program, we will be able to accommodate a maximum of 13 students from the UWI, Mona. However, due to the pandemic control and restriction on public gathering requirement imposed by local government, we will be conducting all events remotely.
We are looking forward to another year of cooperation with the UWI, Mona, below is a brief summary of the time schedule that we are working on:
Dates for Events and Work Plan
13-24th July 2020 - University internal advertisement of the program to students (please refer to attached brochure and application form)
7th August 2020 - Deadline of application submission to University Program Facilitator
17th August 2020 - Deadline for each University to provide 10-15 short-listed applicants’ profiles to Huawei Technologies Jamaica Co. Ltd.
18th-25th August 2020 - Huawei will review all shortlisted candidate profiles and conduct interview if necessary
31st August 2020 - Announcement of interview result to University and students
1st Week of Sep 2020 - Delivery of online access info to selected Students (email / web-conference)
7th -11th Sep 2020 - Seeds for the Future-Seeds Program Course (5 days)
Important Documents:
Our 7 faculties and 12 professional schools offer more than 200 programmes to some 18,000 graduate, undergraduate and continuing studies students.
The UWI, Mona ranks first in Jamaica among accredited tertiary-level programmes. In 2012, the University was again one of Jamaica’s Top 100 Employers.
