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Mussila from Iceland came out on top when the best of Nordic edtech was on show at the Nordic Edtech Award in Helsinki on Wednesday.
Mussila from Iceland came out on top when the best of Nordic edtech was on show at the Nordic Edtech Award in Helsinki on Wednesday.

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Icelandic Mussila winner of Nordic Edtech Awards 2019

Mussila from Iceland came out on top when the best of Nordic edtech was on show at the Nordic Edtech Award at Xcited in Helsinki on Wednesday.

Mussila is a music learning app and the jury recognized them: Targeting cross cultural curriculum with evidence of impact and a sustainable and scaleable business model with both b2b and b2c, putting creativity at the core of learning.

Five finalists, one from each of the Nordic countries, pitched for The Nordic Edtech Award 2019 at the at The Edtech Day at Oslo Innovation Week, All finalists represents the Nordic Edtech core values: Equality, Democracy, Quality, Motivational Learning and Efficiancy.

The finalists for the Nordic Edtech Award 2019:

Denmark – PeaQs by Artventure

Digital learning tool for Business education centered around Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Startup processes.

Finland – Elias Robot by Elias Robot

Allowing students to learn languages by having conversations with human-like robots and voice user interface.

Norway – MagiMake by Ludenso

3D-modeling and AR for creative and cross curricular work.

Sweden – Humly (Studentvikarie Sverige AB)

A digital marketplace where schools quickly can get in touch with flexible educators, providing a digital toolbox for educators so that they are given the best possible opportunity to make a difference in the classroom.

Iceland – Mussila

Music learning app: Learn, create and play music

The awards final took place at the XcitED event in Helsinki on Wednesday 20 November. The awards identify, showcase and recognise the best of edtech from the Nordics. The winner was picked by a top class jury, and prizes include fast track to the 2020 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition in Philadelphia, USA, a space in the final of the EdtechX Global series in London in June 2020, fast-track to the xEdu Spring 2020 program in Helsinki, Finland, and an Education Alliance Finland evaluation.

The award was celebrated for the third time in 2019, with Lexplore (Sweden) winning in 2017 and Strawbees (Sweden) reaching the top in 2018.

Nordic Edtech Alliance is a partnership between Nordic edtech communities, launched in 2017 and created to support and profile Nordic edtech internationally, where the Nordic values of Equality, Democracy, Quality, Motivational Learning and Efficiancy are at the core. 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: Heini Karppinen - heini@mehackit.org

Sweden: Jannie Jeppesen - jannie@swedishedtechindustry.se

Norway: Hege Tollerud - hege@osloedtech.no

Denmark: Mikkel Frich - mikkel@edtechdenmark.dk

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