The EduTECH Emprèn call is open, a pioneering accelerator programme to promote projects in the e-learning sector
Are you an entrepreneur with a business idea that could change the way we learn? With EduTECH Emprèn you can make your plan come true. Take part in the UOC's e-learning business accelerator programme and reap the benefits of the knowledge offered to you by the world's first online university and its more than 20 years' experience in the sector. Fill in this form by 15 January and tell us about your project.
Mentoring, training, in-house pilot trials and a network of experts and investors are waiting to assist you with your project throughout every stage of its growth and promote it successfully in a market that exceeded 100 billion euros of turnover in 2015.
What are you waiting for? Dare to start up your initiative! Fill in this form by 15 January 2017 and become part of EduTECH Emprèn, an initiative of HUBBIK (UOC), which has the support of the Ministry of Business and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia and co-funding from the European Social Fund.
EduTECH Emprèn projects
Your project should innovate in the field of learning and new technologies in any of its facets – from educational methodology and motivation to management and administration – and it can be based on such diverse technologies as learning management systems (LMS-Social LMS), learning analytics, smart contents, gamification and serious games), adaptive learning, devices (Internet of things – IoT, personal devices – BYOD, portable technologies, wearables), immersive technologies (such as RA-RV-360º video), communities of practice and e-commerce.
The accelerator programme
EduTECH Emprèn provides support to projects in the development of their prototype or service, the definition of the business model and the start-up of businesses or entrepreneurial initiatives in the education and ICT sector with high growth potential.
The programme lasts five months and comprises two phases, with 150 hours of training and 20 hours of tutoring per project, which will run between February and June 2017, taught at the UOC centres (and broadcast live) by experts from the UOC and other institutions in the sector. You can find all the information in the attached document.
Registration
Tell us your plans and take part by filling in this form by 15 January 2017. Hurry, places are limited!
EduTECH Emprèn. We believe in education. We reinvent it with you.
