25-02-2016 | EduApp4Syria is about making available an engaging mobile learning tool for Syrian children who are out of school, which can help them build literacy skills in Arabic and improve their psychosocial wellbeing.
An estimated 2.8 million Syrian children are out of school because of conflict. Many are having to cope with traumas and high levels of stress, which also affects their learning ability. Norway is therefore fronting an initiative to develop a smartphone application that can help Syrian children learn how to read and improve their psychosocial wellbeing.
This is taking the form of an international innovation competition in cooperation with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development, the mobile network operator Orange, and the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE). Deadline: 1 April 2016