In this event, we will be exploring the various educational challenges for the underprivileged, including but not limited to orphans, low income families, refugees and asylum seekers. The Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027) outlined the European Commission’s strategy for greater integration of digital education, especially in response to the unprecedented transition to online education from the COVID-19 pandemic.

This event will be a hybrid event, with students of UWC Atlantic College and online listeners. Please refer to the information below for the different notes of the participation category:

In-person participants (Exclusive to UWCAC students)
In person participants will be engaging with structured design thinking and systematic thinking to brainstorm ideas to combat the problem with all the knowledge from the presentations. With the final product creating a thought-provoking flipbook of the results and summary of the student’s response to the educational issues given to EU representatives and external members.

Note for Online Participants (10am BST on Sunday 6th of November)
The online event will feature presentations from NGOs and projects that aim to provide digital education for underprivileged groups. Online participants will be listening to our keynote presentation by Michael Gallagher from the University of Edinburgh about the overview of digital education challenges. Then followed with a series of TED talk style presentations of NGOs in collaboration with ALLdigital and AILEM, a UWC Atlantic College student led project.