
Support amounting to approximately 6.2 billion won... Applications accepted until November 11th
The Samsung Dream Scholarship Foundation announced that it will provide approximately 6.2 billion won through a contest for the '2027 Learning Center Education Support Project' for children and youth who are underprivileged in education.
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The Samsung Dream Scholarship Foundation annually contests and supports learning center education support projects for children and adolescents who lack educational resources.
Contest for educational support project for educationally excluded children and youth
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jeong A-ran = Samsung Dream Scholarship Foundation will provide approximately 6.2 billion won to about 200 educational support projects for children and youth who are underprivileged in education.
The Samsung Dream Scholarship Foundation announced on the 7th that it will open a contest for the '2027 Learning Center Education Support Project' until November 11th.
The Learning Center Education Support Project is a project that provides quality education opportunities to children and adolescents who lack educational resources.
In 2027, we will focus on supporting project-type activities in which children and adolescents collaborate with their peers to plan and implement research tasks and share them with the local community.
The contest target consists of future-oriented, customized, and connected support projects.
Future support projects support math, science, and technology (STEM), team sports, humanities and social studies, and cultural and artistic creative projects.
The customized support project supports the 'Itda Project' and career planning projects for children and youth from immigrant backgrounds, and the connected support project supports local community projects in which local education welfare entities cooperate to solve education welfare tasks.
Applicants are non-profit institutions and organizations that carry out educational activities for children and adolescents in need of educational support. Local children's centers, youth-related organizations, social enterprises/cooperatives related to educational welfare, schools, etc. can apply.
For detailed information, including the project application process, please visit the Samsung Dream Scholarship Foundation website.
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