Announcing the finalists for the Nordic Edtech Award 2018

The Nordic Edtech Alliance are proud to introduce the second round of finalists for the Nordic Edtech Award, to be celebrated at the Edtech Day during Oslo Innovation Week in Oslo on Wednesday 26 September.

The finalists for the Nordic Edtech Award 2018:

Sweden – Strawbees

Hands on creativity and problem solving with construction and code

Denmark – Acadal

Meaningful adult life-long learning and training in large organizations

Norway - Leap Learning

Teaching children to learn how to learn. Combining technology and hands-on games into a flipped classroom - the Leap Learning Labs - with different stations, focusing on logic, literacy and numeracy

Iceland – The Captain

Managing personalised learning in all subjects without overhead on teachers

Finland – WordDive

An AI-based app for learning foreign language speaking skills

The awards final will take place at the Edtech Day during Oslo Innovation Week in Oslo on Wednesday 26 September. The awards will identify, showcase and recognise the best of edtech from the Nordics. The winner will be picked by a top class jury and prizes include a space at the Entrepreneurial Marketing Program for Creative Tech at Nordic Innovation House in New York this autumn, and a fast-track to the xEdu Spring 2019 program in Helsinki, Finland

Nordic Edtech Alliance is a partnership between Nordic edtech communities, launched in 2017 and created to support and profile Nordic edtech internationally. The goal is to attract Nordic and International investors to invest in Nordic edtech companies and to build bridges to international markets for Nordic Edtech companies and suppliers. The Nordic Edtech Startup Award is the first initiative from Nordic Edtech Alliance.

For more information, please contact:

Finland:olli.vallo@kokoaagency.com

Sweden:jannie@swedishedtechindustry.se

Norway:hege@osloedtech.no

Denmark: morten@edtechdenmark.dk