WISE Accelerator 2017-18 Cohort Announced

Doha, Qatar (ots/PRNewswire) - Four promising edtech initiatives from
France, Lebanon and UK selected by World Innovation Summit for
Education (WISE)

The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), a leading
international initiative driving innovation and collaboration in
education, has revealed the names of the four projects selected to
benefit from the 2017-18 WISE Accelerator program.

The selected 2017-18 WISE Accelerator projects:

CamBioScience, UK - a cloud platform delivering individualized online
courses in life science technologies for professionals in academia
and industry. It responds 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 program 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, France - an online platform aiming to become the college
counselor 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 - an initiative of Lebanese Alternative
Learning (LAL) which deploys an offline server filled with digital
resources. Aligned with the Lebanese school curriculum, the content
is designed to fill the learning gaps and avoid school dropouts in
deprived areas of Lebanon and refugee communities.

Each year, the WISE Accelerator supports the development of young,
innovative edtech projects with high potential for scalability and
positive impact in the field of education.

The four selected projects will benefit from a year-long mentorship
program tailored to address their specific needs.

The WISE Accelerator also serves as an intermediary to connect these
projects with an international network that creates opportunities to
share knowledge and find support from donors and investors.

Stavros N. Yiannouka, CEO, WISE, remarked: "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 where they will benefit from mentorship and
global connections, enabling them to develop and scale for the
benefit of society at large."

Representatives from each project will attend the upcoming WISE
global Summit in Doha, Qatar, November 14-16, 2017.

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