Rooted in democracy. Innovative by nature. Fueled by data. We are business architects committed to maximising the success rate and the positive impact of sustainability projects. Over the years, we have been fortunate enough to help realize complex and sustainable business ideas and, in the process, we have gained great expertise within cooperative organizing. We are active in organizations that work with cooperative interests on a national and international level and we regularly advise on cooperative organization. And because we practice what we teach, we have decided to build our own company as a cooperative that is 100 percent employee owned.

Skills to the Future, is developing a digital learning platform to help schools to provide supplementary STEM courses in topics where they lack the resources or competence. We think that our present education could be better. Now the content comes more from looking in the rear mirror, than through the windshield. It should take better account of the constant acceleration of our living environment. We want to help the schools to provide our youth education that trends to the future as much as possible. We cannot exactly tell what skills in 10 years are needed, but we can make good guesses and at least show them in the right direction. Our obligation is to give our youth a kick and a spark starting to learn new skills for the future. How we differentiate ourselves from the other course providers? Our pillars 4 are: #1 The quality of pedagogy first We align, curate, and orchestrate all our course material to achieve pedagogic competence and meet the quality requirements of the ‘Finnish Education Standards’. #2 The how: Blended project-based learning with a flipped approach Digital courses mostly rely only on the delivery of educational material. Our digital platform relies on blended open-ended project-based learning with a flipped approach. That means that also we deliver the educational material online but that’s only one-half of what we do. We also deliver teacher/educator lead workshops, Q&As. We want to ensure that the student really can utilize the information given and convert that to skills by practicing aka by doing homework. Just watching videos and answering some quizzes gives you the illusion you have now learned a skill! #3 High impact needs high completion rates By following and complying with the Finnish pedagogical guidelines we aim to raise the completion rate from Udemy like under 10% to over 80%. A raise in engagement is achieved also with help from our 4th pillar. #4 Co-operating and collaborating with the schools We aim to co-operate with the schools by trying to include our courses in each school’s learning curricula and embed them in the school’s teaching environment. We also aim to collaborate with schools by co-creating courses on topics they want. Searching co-workers with a calling I have been working on this project for a couple of years quite loosely. Soon, when the Helsinki Education Hub starts and opens its doors, we are applying to the EdTech Incubator program. So now is the time to onboard and start the cruise, isn’t it? A person on my wish list for co-founders and early team members could be: - a teacher, educator, course builder, or at least be interested in or somewhat familiar with pedagogy. Curating the courses would be one of the tasks - a tech guy who would run and tackle the Learning Management System or Virtual Learning Environment in all its complexities - a hacker, data guy, designer, or whoever who would join testing and building the product/service in the right direction and helping it grow - an audio/video person who would be in building the courses and participating in the marketing activities broadly understood - a content provider because we are going to build ourselves only some MVP’s - there are many other jobs and tasks you could do, so practically anyone who is self-motivated is welcomed to join! My primary target is to have an impact on my activities. Even though money helps in living, I would rather make a ding in the education universe than get wealthy. I prefer diversity in age, gender, and nationality and I am searching for like-minded people who want to share my calling. I am not inviting you to join right away. Working as a co-founder is like marriage, you just can’t quit when you feel like it. Therefore, it’s best for both parties just to make a small project together and after the experiment, we know how we like to proceed. Please contact me markku.porvari@mit.fi or just call +358 40 725 2547.

Our mission of making companies scale to their full potential started at the beginning of 2021. Being a talent acquisition business partner for high growth companies, we aim to help them scale by offering our complete recruitment solutions around talent acquisition related matters. With the quick, flexible connect and scale methodology, we enable our customers to grow at a fast pace by connecting our dedicated talent partners as a part of their teams for the time needed. Our bread and butter: 🚀 RPO/ EMBEDDED → Our Talent Partners fully integrated as a part of your team for the time needed. 🚀 Hybrid RPO → Connect us on a flexible hybrid model to support specific parts of your recruitment functions. 🚀 Direct Search → For single, complex, and urgent recruitment needs. Domestic or International, we make sure you have the right employee to succeed in the position. 🚀 Employer Branding → Stand out in competition! We help you to attract top talents. Ps. Our headquarter is located up in the clouds. Yes, fully remote from the beginning 😎

Heymedia Partners are a market leading link building agency, every day working on redefining the way companies globally work with link building. By creating an awesome SaaS tool, we are making the market more transparent, cost-efficient and hassle-free. This gives our clients more time to do the things they love. Our mantra is "We suck compared to how great we want to become!" We therefore always seek to improve all aspects of the company itself.

We are a digital agency with focus on performance marketing channels and web development. Founded by some of the leading experts within the field in Denmark, with a vision to make specialised teams around the specific channels - and by any means necessary not compromise on quality and results on behalf of our clients.

PESITHO Pesitho is a Danish based enterprise, committed to providing affordable and clean energy solutions for cooking to marginalized and vulnerable people around the world. We have developed the ECOCA solar powered electric cook stove, to meet the daily cooking and energy needs to families living in off grid areas. Pesitho has established a locally run co-operative outside of the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement in Northern Uganda, from where stoves are assembled, distributed, and serviced by refugee residents and members of the host community. The company was founded in 2018 and has a combined experience of more than 30 years in the renewable energy industry. The Problem we are solving Currently, 4 billion people around the world lack access to clean, efficient, and affordable access to energy for cooking. Polluting fuels and technologies for cooking have a detrimental impact of health, nutrition, gender, and the environment, hindering the process of a sustainable development, in many cases, in already fragile settings. The lack of progress in clean cooking, reportedly costs the world more than $2.4 trillion each year, driven by adverse impacts on health, climate, and gender equality. Left unaddressed, communities will continue face multiple adverse consequences, that are further amplified by poverty, climate change and future global pandemics. To solve this problem Providing access to an affordable and sustainable technology for cooking with the ECOCA solar powered electric cook seeks to address energy security not just for cooking but also to reduce environmental issues like deforestation, pollution, also gender inequality and poverty. Research and design for our stove was conducted with residents of the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement in Northern Uganda, where pilot testing permitted additional adjustments, allowing for a stove specifically designed to meet the cooking needs of vulnerable groups of people living in off grid areas. The ECOCA comes with a solar panel, insulated 6l cooking pot, 1 LED rechargeable household lamp, 1 LED rechargeable torch and USB ports for charging small items. Studies conducted with end users by organizations such as Caritas and World Food Program, have shown improvements to overall health and wellbeing, reducing exposure to harmful pollutants from smoke and usage of firewood, improvements in taste of food, income generation from USB port charging station and hours saved from collecting firewood being reinvested in education and skills training. The Spark Pesitho was founded on the belief that all should be able to have access to modern clean energy for cooking. Seeing a map over Africa showed that a large portion of the continent is without access to modern energy. This sparked a willingness to learn why. Understanding the why lead to the understanding of scale of lacking modern energy in that region of the world. While other continents where mowing a positive direction in relation to rural electrification sub Sarah Africa is still mowing in the wrong direction with the number of people living without access to electricity growing. This knowledge inspired the team to pursue the development of the ECOCA, off grid E-cooker

Vår historie Mikalsen Utvikling ble stiftet av Andrè Mikalsen i 2015. Etter mange år med utvikling av nettsider ble det ofte et tomrom og ønske om å bidra mer når nettsidene var ferdig levert. Spørsmålet som hele tiden dukket opp var om kunden faktisk kunne få enda flere besøkende til siden. Selv om nettsidene så grafisk bra ut, var de optimale for konvertering til salg? Dermed startet ferden inn i markedsføring og de digitale kanalene. Etter mange kurs og sene netter ved siden av full jobb, var det på tide å omsette teori til praksis. Vår første kunde fikk over 30 nye kunder den første måneden, og måtte ansette 2 nye medarbeidere for å håndtere den drastisk økende kundestrømmen. Å levere digital markedsføring med slike enormt positive resultater, er så sterkt for oss at vi aldri kommer til å slutte å skape resultater. Å være med på å endre livene til menneskene bak bedriftene er en ubeskrivelig rørende følelse. I dag har vi et sterkt fokus på å hjelpe små og mellomstore bedrifter, da våre tjenester kan utgjøre en stor forskjell i bedriftens hverdag.

SpeakerBee er en fri og demokratisk video platform, hvor alle med noget på hjerte kan dele deres viden. Vidensdelingen sker altid via live-streaming, men vil efterfølgende være tilgængelig på websitet. Når vi altid sender live er det med et håb at indlæggene fremstår så transparente og “uredigerede” som muligt. Samtidig giver det seerne mulighed for at interagere med speakerne direkte gennem chat, quizzer, afsteminger, webcam m.m. SpeakerBee er uafhængig af politiske- og andre særinteresser, og sålænge, der er interesse for et indlæg, det er indenfor lovens rammer og det overholder nogle simple kvalitetskrav, er emnet frit. Udover indlæg fra speakere producerer vi selv - eller i samarbejde med partnere - programmer i lidt større formater som kan være samtaler, debatter, temaserier eller anden vidensdeling. Der er også kommercielle indslag - dog altid efter samme principper - at det skal være live og transparent. Vi tror på at fremtidens kommunikation mellem virksomhed og potentielle kunder vil være en ærlig præsentation af virksomheden og dens kultur og værdier samt at deres produkt eller service gør en forskel for brugerne. SpeakerBee råder desuden over to professionelle video- og lydstudier centralt i København. Team SpeakerBee 🐝

carryon.bike - Fun without Fuel carryon.bike is developing an AI based online platform to bring the cycling community under one roof. I found that there is no platform where the cycle community can find varied information that is relevant and uptodate and exactly as per their needs and behaviour. At the same time the patience level to comb through websites for relevant information is decreasing. The objective of carryon.bike is to provide and suggest information that is helpful to anyone from the cycling community. There will be many who have started considering cycle for commuting, exercising , or weekend gateways. Even tourists would prefer bike tours. So a global platform to cater to needs of all and encourage more and more adoption of cycling to adhere to the new norms post COVID outbreak and at the same time contribute to a greener planet Example, if a visitor to the portal is looking for renting bikes for touring a city during the weekend and wishes to rent an e-bike for few hours, showing the person a shop that rents mountain bikes and Race Bikes ONLY, would irritate the person. This also gives more exposure to the shops and brands. Another example to explain how we wish to solve problems: When casual office commuters wish to buy a bike, they would feel comfortable getting advise from an expert. Carryon.bike becomes the platform where domain experts would answer to practical questions and guide them to make the right choice in current scenario based on the person’s age or city or road conditions etc. This idea sparked during the corona times when I found friends and family and even celebrities getting anxious to go out of their houses for exercising, sightseeing and some fresh air. The regular office goers who were dependent upon public transport were thinking of walking down to office but felt it was time consuming. The young adventurous population like the high school students or university students wanted to take up cycling tours during weekends and felt they could not find enough bike routes. It was evident that there will be even more needs for cycling and with demands will be a need to get more and more info, or consult people for unexplored or unknown topics. So why not build carryon.bike - the Craigslist of cycling industry.

We are building a secure, faster and affordable AI based cancer and hereditary diseases diagnostic product. Our product is a one-window platform featuring high performance, AI based genomic analysis service. Genomic data analysis ( computational part) is slow, expensive and requires a lot of human intervention which increases its cost. Because of these reasons, it is beyond the reach of many OR a burden on taxpayers where health-care is subsidized. Our goal is to bring genomic analysis service within reach of everyone.

We use Virtual Reality to improve the quality of soft-skills and onboarding trainings, allowing companies to scale fast their trainings with the best quality. Our focus is to enhance user engagement and training repetition, while being cost-efficient and offering seamless integration with the trainier methodology and the corporate objectives.

The workforce in the Fourth Industrial Revolution needs more reskilling and upskilling than ever before. For this, we need to more digital online and individualised solutions to engage a global workforce. Soft skills training like Emotional Intelligence and Coaching is some of the key skills we need to master to work as global citizens and perform in a changing world. These skills are what the founder of Mimir Global is trained in and as a professional educator understand how we need to innovate education across all ages and continents.

SYNTESE DIGITAL er eksperter i avanceret digital markedsføring. Siden 2006 har vi nørdet, udforsket og testet alle afkroge af den digitale verden for at bruge data bedst muligt, ramme knivskarpt for vores kunder og hjælpe dem til at gøre det bedre på bundlinjen. Efter mange års erfaring som bureau for nogle af Danmarks mest ambitiøse brands, dykkede vi ned i, hvorfor så få SMV’er bruger avanceret digital markedsføring til at skabe mere salg og få flere kunder? Svaret er, at det kræver indsigt, forståelse og erfaring at skabe resultater, der rykker ved noget. Derfor hjælper vi i dag SMV’er med at realisere deres potentiale for selv små budgetter, og hos SYNTESE DIGITAL forstår vi, hvad det vil sige at drive virksomhed i Danmark.

Weikop Project is a vision of revolutionizing and re-defining the way start-ups work The vision is to find the right teams for business concepts. It’s a setup that creates companies. The teams don’t create the concepts. The concepts create the teams. We want to do that by taking some of the best ideas and connecting the ideal individuals to develop them. Weikop Project consists of a group of skilled and experienced entrepreneurs and investors. Their joint experience stretches over countless business areas and segments. The Weikop Project group will therefore act board for the various start-ups within the organization, as well as, develop the initial business cases and making sure that they’re valid, before compiling the perfect team for the given concept. All concepts within Weikop Project will be based on at least one of the UN's 17 sustainable development goals. Each start-up individual will be carefully selected and will get to choose the area and direction, in which they wish to work in. From there, teams will be made, based on personalities, skills and visions. These teams will then proceed to build the start-up from the ground. All team members will receive equal equity in the project – after a proof of concept round.

The Nordic-China Startup Forum is a non-profit NGO registered in Sweden that arranges recurring events in local startup communities alongside corporate and government partners. NCSF is operated by students and young professionals from the Nordics and China and has chapters in ten cities: Stockholm, Uppsala, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Shenzhen-HK, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing.