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.

Membantu is one of the leading companies in Denmark helping babies with sleep because sleep is so incredibly important to the little ones. The large amount of sleep is crucial for normal growth and development, as the brain, during sleep, i.a. processes sensory impressions. Membantu develops and sells various products including baby wraps and cradle motors that can hopefully help many small babies get the right amount of sleep. Membantu was founded in 2017 by Stephanie and Eva, who both experienced a great need for an extra set of hands in their children's first years of life.

Plazzo is a start-up located in Hasselager near Aarhus. We've started business in April 2021 and are still in a early phase of research and development. Our core product is solid plastic sheets that are moulded from granulated plastic waste in a heatpress. The sheets can be sold as they are, as a building material, meant to replace plywood and other sheet materials. The sheets can also be routed and finished into ready to use design products, such as tables, chairs, wall panels, etc. The short term goal is to make a profitable business in Denmark by creating a brand and demand of our recycled circular products. The long term goal is to sell the plastic recycling machinery in container based factory units to developing countries. We are currently two owners whom are working part time on the project with administration, as well as one full time technical employee in the production. We are receiving consultation through several funded programs such as: Cirkulær Grøn Omstilling and Green Tech Center Inkubator Program. We are exhibiting at Tech BBQ in Øksnehallen in Copenhagen on September 17th.

Poikilingo is developing a language learning app for small children (2 - 6 years old), where social and cultural awareness are at the heart of our concept. Our program focuses on the cultural aspects of the language being learned, as we believe that cracking the social code is as important as learning vocabulary and pronunciation. This promotes a sense of belonging which will positively impact the child's learning process. Each child is unique, so each of them deserves a study program that takes into consideration their peculiarities. The customized study plan that childre get at Poikilingo mixes activities, videos, songs and games, and if the child makes mistakes, she gets feedback in her native tongue. We follow a consolidated learning approach that teaches different subjects through the language, all created by educational experts and aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. But the game-changing experience that Poikilingo brings into the market is based on animated stories where an avatar of the child goes through everyday situations that children go through, including when they move to a new country and have to start into a new kindergarten.

For 4 years we have been developing an innovative visual data collection solution that transforms operations and analytics within any organisation that carries out inspections. Our customers believe that what we do is unique and we love the fact that every one of our customers has renewed their Captego subscription every year. We are a Danish company that’s growing quickly throughout Europe. We operate in the UK, have a remote team spread throughout most of Europe and it won’t be long before we have customers in new European markets. We use English for all of our internal communication. We don’t mind where in Europe you’re based or what time you get out of bed, we only care that you want Captego to be a success as much as our customers do.

Vilka är Xpand It Media? - En nischad & resultat fokuserad annonserings byrå Vi är och vill alltid vara en 100 % resultat fokuserad annonseringsbyrå. Vi levererar strategier, content, annonsering nischat inom motorbranschen, fastighetsbranschen & mobility/elsektorn. Vi ska genom att vara nischade bli bäst i Sverige inom de segment vi fokuserar på. Vårt mål är att fortsätta växa teamet och omsättningen till 30 miljoner om 3 år.

During the covid pandemic live shopping on Facebook has boomed like crazy and the future looks even more promising in this market. We have developed a robot that takes care of all the administrative work for the retailers doing live shopping. From answering comments, sending messages in Messenger with payment links and keeping track of the inventory and orders , everything administrative is taken care of with the Z:Live robot. It all started with a distressed mother in law who was doing live sales and spent at least 3-4 hours after each ended live shopping event getting a hold of all the information, payments and such. She called one day and wanted to know if could be done any easier and from that phone call, Z:Live was born as we could see the potential in the market besides just her.

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.

Our vision is to make a new generation of user interfaces. Our applications will be easy to use and at the same time we will produce truly unique features which have never been seen before . Our vision is to create the finest user interfaces for stylus pens in the world. Our problem is “How to enhance learning thoroughly?” Every educational scientist is solving this same problem. Based on the knowledge we have on human learning we are very keen to find out what possibilities technology has to offer? Can learning be quantified, analyzed and enhanced with machine learning? Also our daily observations show us that there are a lot of management tasks which take take time both from teachers and students and the focus moves from learning to management. Therefore we dare to present another problem we are chasing: “How digital technology can support learning in ways that it makes learning easier, more motivating, less-dependent of teacher´s presence and approval''. Our solution: The user interfaces created by Pisara Learning offer intuitive ways to learn through digital devices. Our concept for learning is called Puro. Puro is easy to approach and use. It has unique properties: - Personalized assignments - Automated exercise checking - Learning analytics and tools for evaluation - Digital drawing made as simple as taking notes or drawing on paper Our features: Data collection Pisara is strongly utilizing the use of modern data collection. The solutions in edtech software robotics market do their best to automate - evaluation - creating assignments - giving feedback AI solutions Pisara AI solutions concentrate particularly in automated assignment creation. We are building an assignment library from where AI can pick suitable tasks for each user individually. This will be a first of a kind product in the world of edtech. Machine learning OCR Pisara Learning is developing machine learning OCR (optical character recognition). Pisara OCR is used specially for recognizing personal handwriting and also numbers and mathematical symbols. Pisara OCR is first-of-a-kind since it is taught to recognize all kinds of drawing and thinking with pen.

evolvT facilitates responsibility for local micro and small e-commerce operators by providing environmentally friendly last-mile delivery solutions. The service includes all delivery aspects from route planning and customer service to a fleet of low tailpipe emissions vehicles. The impact of the industry on the environment is one of the most important drivers of change. In this field, 1 standard diesel van can release around 1.2 metric tons of CO2 every month. The end customers are more sensitive to this impact and more inclined to choose e-commerce operators that are working on decreasing the CO2 emissions of their operations. Meanwhile, efficiency and profitability are still prioritized by the e-commerce operators and overlooking these factors is not an option.

The right people and the right tools for your success in tomorrow’s global independent music business. Music is among the hardest industries to make a living from. In addition to your skills, it´s all about connections with the right people and access to the right tools. None of us will make it alone and that´s the reason why we call ourselves Family in Music. We connect music people on a global scale and bring together a host of tools and services in one platform that helps you to level up your music game. Welcome to the Family.

Mobilkaffebar.dk er en online platform der tilbyder besøgende at finde og booke en mobil kaffebar med barista til deres næste arrangement. Det kan være en charmerende kaffecykel til et bryllup, eller en kaffedisk med barista der skal ind og stå til en firmareception. Platformen samler udbydere i Danmark, og giver et let og sammenligneligt overblik, så man kan finde den rigtige løsning til sit arrangement.

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We created SupportBuddy because we saw how much time is wasted answering the same questions over and over again – time that could be better spent solving real problems, truly helping customers, and creating value. SupportBuddy transforms customer communication into something simpler, more human, and more sustainable.

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.