The Victor Pinchuk Foundation became one of the Global Partners with leading online education provider Coursera

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation became a Global Partner of Coursera - a leading massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provider that associates with the world top universities and organizations to offer free online courses for anyone to take. Having the long-term goal to internationalize completely all course material, Coursera has recently partnered with top organizations from eight countries to translate complete course lectures across multiple disciplines for students around the world, for free.

Under the partnership each Coursera Global Translation Partner undertook to translate selected courses into many of the most popular language markets reflected by Coursera students: Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, Japanese, Ukrainian, Kazakh, and Arabic, thus, contributing to Coursera to take a giant leap forward toward making high-quality education accessible to anyone, anywhere - regardless of what language they speak.

It is expected that the majority of translated courses will be available on Coursera by Fall 2013.

Daphne Koller, Coursera`s Co-Founder: "The institutions that are supporting and providing translation services for our free online courses are helping to make the educational content on Coursera more accessible to the millions of people around the world who stand to benefit from these resources but are not fluent in English. The potential to impact global education is greatly elevated by our ability to bridge language barriers".

Andrew Ng, Coursera`s Co-Founder: "Many of our students are already taking advantage of user-generated subtitles in our courses, and we believe that having translations will significantly improve the learning experience for non-native English speakers. By offering courses in more languages, we hope to provide quality educational opportunities to more of the students who need it most".

Apart from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation as Coursera`s Ukrainian partner, leading translation companies, philanthropic organizations, mobile carriers, nonprofits, corporations and universities are also partners - including Bogazici University, Digital October, Es Corporation, Kcell, Koc University, Lemann Foundation, Meedan, New Thinking, Taghreedat. Additionally, Transifex, a platform which will host Coursera's translatable content, will allow partner organizations and individuals to easily contribute course translations from anywhere.

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation considers online education as a powerful instrument to empower people, especially the next generation. In accordance with its mission to empower future generations to become the change-makers of tomorrow, the foundation will support selected online education platforms.

In January 2013, the Foundation dedicated its 6^th Philanthropic Roundtable on the occasion of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos to online education. Daphne Koller, Coursera`s Co-Founder and Co-CEO, was one of the panelists, together with speakers included Thomas Friedman, Bill Gates, Sebastian Thrun,

Peter Thiel, , Jimmy Wales and Muhammad Yunus.

A video recording of the 6th Davos Philanthropic Roundtable "RevolutiOnline.edu - Online Education Changing the World" is available at the Victor Pinchuk Foundation YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=25PG4qTRU4g

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