During the 2022-2023 academic year, a modern Wi-Fi 6 network was deployed in the shelters of 27 educational institutions. This will provide continuous access to education for students and teachers throughout Ukraine – where face-to-face learning is possible. 22 universities, 2 employment centers and 3 vocational education institutions across Ukraine received modern Huawei equipment for high-speed Internet in shelters. The partner and implementer of the project was the Foundation for Educational Initiatives.
Project characteristics
As a result of the project, the delivery and installation of 500 access points, 50 switches, 200 power adapters, and powerful routers to increase connection speeds has been completed. These devices will make it possible to build a modern Wi-Fi 6 network in the university’s bomb shelters.
One access point will provide Internet access for more than 100 students and teachers. In total, the amount of Huawei equipment provided will provide Internet access to more than 50 thousand users. This capacity can be increased if necessary. In the shelters, which also function as points of invincibility, the Internet can also be used by citizens.
The final stage of the project is to train technical specialists from the universities participating in the Wi-Fi in Shelters program in the Huawei HCIA-Datacom course on setting up Wi-Fi wireless solutions. The training will take place online from September 18 to 22, 2023. The trainer is Vitalii Marianovskyi, a leading national specialist in network technologies, a certified trainer of Huawei ICT Academy.
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“We are grateful to Huawei Ukraine and the Foundation for Educational Initiatives for this project. Today, cooperation with large corporations, other countries, educational institutions, and the public sector is crucial to ensure the continuity of the educational process in this difficult time for Ukraine,” said Dmytro Zavgorodnyi, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine for Digital Development, Digital Transformation, and Digitalization.
In his opinion, the Wi-Fi in Shelters project will continue in further cooperation with various partners.
“Information technology and innovation is a key specialization of the Foundation for Educational Initiatives. We have been promoting the development of the domestic IT industry and popularizing innovations as a way of thinking for more than 11 years,” said Nadiya Omelchenko, Vice President of IT-Integrator, founder of the Foundation for Educational Initiatives. – “Today, it is crucial for IT education to implement the Wi-Fi in Shelters project in higher education institutions, and we are grateful to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, and Huawei Ukraine for supporting this initiative.”
“Continuous access to education is one of Huawei‘s priorities. Our company is participating in the Wi-Fi in Shelters initiative because we are well aware of the value of education and its impact on the economic landscape at the national level. A sustainable educational process will affect the quality of professional training of future graduates who will be engaged in the reconstruction of Ukraine,” said Tony Cao, Deputy Director of Huawei Ukraine.
