The WISE Accelerator is intended to support the development of innovative projects in the field of education with high potential for scalability and positive impact.
It relies on the expertise of qualified mentors and partners to provide projects with effective strategies and concrete support to ensure their development. Five projects are selected annually to join the programme.
Throughout the year, the projects will benefit from tailor-made mentorship to address specific needs.
The WISE Accelerator will provide international visibility and serve as an intermediary to connect the projects with an appropriate network, creating opportunities to share knowledge and identify support among donors and investors.
Learn Syria is an education campaign bringing free digital education to Syrian refugees through a collaborative platform and Rumie tablets that work offline. Started in 2013, the project has a global reach and works with local partners and thousands of skilled volunteers online.
It has built a full digital Syrian curriculum for children from grades 1-12 for autonomous learning. This content is then loaded onto its learning tablets and are deployed through local partners in Turkey and Lebanon. The project reaches over 25,000 Syrian students.
Headquartered in Amsterdam and with reach in Africa, Alfatoun Education was created in 2014. It is a platform that strengthens teacher capacity globally by delivering social and financial education through online and offline technology.
The platform provides a self-study course that gives teachers who have already participated in Aflatoun refresher workshops and supplementary training. The modules deal with both programme implementation and active-learning methods transferrable to any subject.
Chalk.com, created in 2013, is a school management system providing real time data from the classroom to help schools understand what actually works. With its workflow tools for teachers, Chalk.com allows teachers to truly personalise learning by better understanding every student’s individual needs.
The real time data from the classroom results in rich insights for the administration to make more informed decisions. Today, over 200,000 teachers use Chalk.com's tools to plan lessons, align to curriculum, and assess their students.
Edukasyon.ph is an online platform started in 2013 reaching all over Philippines. It empowers students with opportunities to find education pathways for their dream careers. Students gain advice by filtering and ranking offers based on price, quality and relevance, and navigating through 200 career pathways.
The website also offers convenience by allowing students to apply to schools online directly. With a current reach of 50,000 users every month, the website has witnessed user growth of over 20% a month.
With a global reach, Joko's World is a suite of interactive learning applications that brings world cultures and intercultural understanding to the classroom in a fun way. Joko's World blends music, geography and culture in a unique and educational way, allowing students to build skills and knowledge on a diverse range of cultures. The project uses games that allow students to incrementally build skills and knowledge through game-based challenges that offer instant feedback. The project currently has more than 10,000 users globally.
From 'Learn Syria project'.
The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) has selected five projects to 2016-2017 WISE Accelerator programme. They are ‘Learn Syria’ and ‘Chalk.com’ from Canada; ‘Aflatoun Education’ from Netherlands; ‘Joko's World’ from Australia and ‘Edukasyon.ph’ from Philippines.
