SEK Lab, the first accelerator for innovative education projects and startups, is holding its first Demo Day.
Time has flown by… since we unveiled SEK Lab at the South Summit in October 2015, we have now completed the first call of this accelerator, which has attracted so much interest in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
For me it is a privilege to lead a fantastic project driven by the Institución Educativa SEK, true innovators in education – it is in their DNA.
As soon as we started talking about SEK Lab at entrepreneur events – Iniciador, Area 31, Wayra, Google’s Campus Madrid – our focus on backing only projects or startups whose market, product or service was the education sector caught people’s attention.
Perhaps the most impressive thing has been the willingness of more than 50 people, top-level professionals who have been part of the pre-selection jury, the selection of the best startups, mentors, trainers, speakers, sherpas… incredible people who will surely be back for our second call.
Around 40 projects applied to the first call, and the 8 winners were:
Becash
Website: https://www.becash.es
Twitter: https://twitter.com/@Becash_es
CEO – Carlos Mateo
Carlos Mateo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chavomateo
Becash is the easiest, quickest and most convenient way to get a grant for undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Its goal is for the grants and subsidies awarded in Spain to reach everyone who is entitled to them.
Becash is the first grant comparison site to help students all over the world achieve their goals. Users just have to complete their profile and the website’s algorithm takes care of finding the grants that can help them, showing how likely they are to get them and letting them apply with a single click.
CreappCuentos
Website: http://www.creappcuentos.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/creappcuentos
CEO – Avelino Correa
CreAppcuentos is an app that lets us create our own stories simply and quickly, and both children and adults can make them. It has a very simple editor that lets us place all kinds of characters and objects on various backgrounds and in various positions.
It has interactive features, such as being able to add audio to a page, which plays when we reach it, or sharing the stories on social networks. The app is free, has parental controls and is widely used in schools. It boosts children’s creativity and reading comprehension.
Docente.me
Website: http://www.docente.me/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/docente_me
CEO – José Fernández
Docente.me is a platform that lets teachers manage and integrate their educational identity at a global level, sharing their experience and knowledge as well as their activity on social networks. Teachers can share their PLE (“Personal Learning Environment”), keeping it up to date and accessing all the resources available on the internet. Teachers can also discover other teachers’ good practices, boosting social learning.
With Docente.me, teachers can share their profile on social networks, blogs, email signatures and presentations to strengthen their personal brand.
EscueLab
Website: http://www.escuelab.es/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EscuelabMadrid
CEO – Cristina Balbás.
Escuelab is made up of a multidisciplinary team of leading researchers with extensive international experience and training in science communication, educationalists and artists, all of them with a strong social commitment. Faced with a widespread lack of scientific culture and vocations in Spain, Escuelab aims to democratise access to a practical, interactive science education and, in this way, to encourage research vocations among Spanish schoolchildren.
Escuelab designs educational materials adapted to children’s cognitive level. Its staff, with higher education in science and teaching and research experience, implement these materials in guided, research-based learning spaces.
Homologation Students Services
Website: http://www.hostudents.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HomologationHSS
CEO – Enrique Martos
The mission of Homologation Students Services is to offer the best services and solutions to all international students who want to enter the Spanish university system, and to give all Spanish students the chance to begin their studies at the most prestigious international universities. They handle enrolment and all the formalities needed to start studying at the chosen university: visas, recognition of qualifications, credentials, finding accommodation, insurance, a bank account…
They also help universities to attract candidates and to improve the way they manage foreign students.
Intoino
Website: http://www.intoino.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/intoino
CEO – Marco Bestonzo
An Italy-based startup that offers kits for both schools and families so that children can learn to develop their STEM skills and to programme a small board with sensors that will let them build incredible things, even home automation for their own home.
Pentagrom
Website: http://pentagrom.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pentagrom
CEO – Lola Garralda
Lola Garralda on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LolaGarralda
Pentagrom is an app developed by a music teacher that makes both learning and teaching music much easier, as it shows in real time which note you are playing or singing and how in tune it is. Pentagrom picks up every note you play or sing and tells you which note it is and how it is written on the stave. You will find yourself learning to write music by associating sounds with their place in the score. You can also upload a MIDI song and hear and see the notes of the line for whichever instrument you want. It works with any instrument.
Schoolivity
Website: http://schooltivity.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/schooltivity
CEO – Jorge Guijarro
Schooltivity is an app that streamlines communication and management at nursery and pre-schools. With Schooltivity, teachers give parents direct feedback on children’s tasks and achievements, which increases communication and motivation between the little ones and their families. It enables instant, simple and effective communication between families and schools. It includes Aulabox, a way of sharing class materials so that parents and children can enjoy going over them together. In short, it improves academic management. It can be accessed via mobile, tablet and computer.
8 truly great teams, our first #SEKLabers, but we want more. So if you innovate in education, be sure to apply to the 2nd call of SEK Lab: we will give your project or startup a real push with the best mentors, master classes, connections with partners and customers, beta testing at SEK schools and the Universidad Camilo José Cela and, finally, the Demo Day in front of investors, accelerators and potential customers.
We look forward to seeing you: https://www.f6s.com/seklab2ndcall2017
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