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The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), a leading international initiative driving innovation and collaboration in education, has revealed the names of four projects selected to benefit from the 2017-18 WISE Accelerator programme.
The selected 2017-18 WISE Accelerator projects are CamBioScience (UK), a cloud platform delivering individualised online courses in life science technologies for professionals in academia and industry. Its aim is to respond to the demands of the rapidly advancing fields of science and technology, and an ever-increasing share of jobs requiring a background in STEM.
Doc Academy (UK), an education programme aiming to develop critical and independent thinking in young people. Using the power of documentary film as a stimulus for learning and debate, Doc Academy is designed to help teachers and students think about the world, society, and their place in it. Pixis based in France and its an online platform aiming to become the college councillor of the future through the use of artificial intelligence and data science, with the goal of transforming career guidance.
Pixis helps students explore and identify meaningful degrees and jobs. Tabshoura in a Box (Lebanon) is an initiative of Lebanese Alternative Learning that deploys an offline server filled with digital resources. Aligned with the Lebanese school curriculum, the content is designed to fill learning gaps and avoid school dropouts in deprived areas of Lebanon and refugee communities.
Each year, the WISE Accelerator programme supports the development of young, innovative EdTech projects with high potential for scalability and positive impact in the field of education. The chosen projects will benefit from a year-long mentorship programme tailored to address their specific needs.
Stavros N. Yiannouka, CEO, WISE, said, 'These four promising initiatives offer smart solutions to pressing education challenges including the need for 21st century skills to prepare for an uncertain future of work, the rapidly advancing field of STEM, and the global refugee crisis. We are pleased to welcome these projects to the WISE Accelerator programme, where they will benefit from mentorship and global connections, enabling them to develop and scale for the benefit of the wider community.
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