The second edition of Project Week was held from Monday 15 to Saturday 2021 at Sèmè City
Held under the theme “Creating games to raise young people's awareness of internet use: risks, prevention and stakes”, the second edition of EPITECH Benin's Project Week took place from Monday 15 to Saturday 20 March 2021 at Sèmè City.
This activity, part of EPITECH's curriculum, had students compete to solve a concrete problem set by a partner company or organisation. For Johanne BRUFFAERTS, Development Director of EPITECH in Benin, the choice of cybersecurity as the theme was intended to teach young people aged 5 to 18, through games, to “become familiar with good practices on social networks; how to use the internet properly; and also how to understand the Digital Code”.
60 young students from EPITECH Benin and other schools, divided into multidisciplinary teams of 6 to 7 people, took part in this edition of Project Week. For a week, they worked on creating games, culminating in the presentation of their work to juries made up of young children and teenagers, who are the target audience of the prototype games, and of professionals from the tech and cybersecurity world.
A partner of Project Week 2021, the National Information Systems Security Agency (ANSSI Benin), through its representative Mr Guéric GONÇALVES, explained that it supported the event because it is in line with Strategic Objective No. 3 of the National Digital Security Strategy: “Developing digital security skills and culture”.