MIT Creative Arts Competition is an annual event for student teams to present art-related projects with a workable business plan. The winners receive $15,000 offered as a grant to help launch an enterprise. The projects presented this year included everything from teaching music in a refugee camp outside of Erbil …
eLearningworld News The Europeana Foundation’s work aims to from Europe’s rich cultural heritage transform the world towards a more open, knowledgeable and creative society. All over Europe, museums, galleries, libraries and archives are digitizing their collections where the Europeana Foundation can give support in the form of digital expertise and …
eLearningworld News from Nordic Countries The only edtech accelerator hub in the Nordic Countries, the Finnish XEdu, and Edtech Sweden announcing a new co-operation with ambition to build an extended Edtech Community for support and collaboration opportunities for Edtech startups. Niko Lindholm, Program Director at xEdu comments: We really look …
eLearningworld News from Africa The 11th eLearning Africa Conference in Cairo, Egypt, that took place between May 24-26 showed a sparkling startup-scene on the African continent. However, transforming the educational systems into the digital era that is a prerequisite to boost the economic and societal development is lagging behind. This caused …
eLearningworld News from Sweden The Swedish startup company eEducation Albert is now launching an artificial intelligence application with focus on helping pupils with their homework in math during the last years of primary school. The startup-company intend to expand to other education-levels as well as the international market during the …
eLearningworld News from Poland The Warsaw Google Campus is a support center for start-ups and inventors that require advanced technologies to develop their business and also gives opportunity to collaborate with other entrepreneurs. The Minister of Science, Peter Dardziński that just has been appointed to focus on innovation and the …
Digitalization is transforming the book publishing industry. The days are gone when the author had to rely on that a publishing house would accept his or her work. Since the walls to the book market were too high to be entered in any other way. The publisher took care of …
eLearningworld News from USA Intel offers promising edtech startup’s mentorship, funding and insights for growth in the Silicon Valley. Companies that are selected for the Intel Education Accelerator program will receive customized guidance and up to $100,000 from Intel Capital. In the first step successful applicants will receive $50,000 up …
eLearningworld News from USA EDGE Edtech is now launching an accelerator-programme for edtech-businesses in New York City. Until September 2015 the programme will be accepting applications from innovative startups that are developing technology-solutions for education and learning. At the end of the year ten of the applicant-businesses will be selected …
eLearningworld News from USA iHub Pitch Games, sponsored by Comcast, the Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) and NewSchools Venture Fund, took place during Comcast’s Youth Tech Summit last September. In February 25 it is time for the second round of the competition that is modeled after the popular TV show …
