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Want to learn a new language? Weeve is an innovative startup that has created an innovative, creative and effective way to help you do just that. Learning a new language is both difficult and rewarding. It’s easier to just go to a foreign country and speak louder and louder at people until they understand, right? But for some reason people tend to respect you a little more if you actuall...
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Skewb Climate is on a mission to help utility companies engage as a force for good in their communities via their bespoke digital education tools. Aside from knee-jerk, uneducated cries that videogames are dumbing down the population and causing violence - from the same kind of people who used to claim that Dungeons & Dragons was satanic and comic books were the cause of all violence - it&r...
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Berlin-based Tomorrow University is on a mission to empower and educate the change makers of tomorrow and help create a more sustainable future. As we all know, one of the biggest impacts of the pandemic has been the inevitable rise in remote working and learning. As you’d expect therefore, there are more and more startups being created to service our “remote” needs - whether ...
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Raise Ventures on a mission to empower the next generation of business leaders and founders with the launch of their pioneering Emerging Leaders Summer School. Belfast-based Raise Ventures believe that building the right foundations for your business journey is the key to achieving and sustaining success. Business skills alone are not enough. They have an ethos to embed balance, wellbeing ...
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The lowdown on Studeo, the edtech startup that has created a video learning app in order to democratise elite tutoring. Education is a fundamental pillar of modern society. Yet arguably the best education often comes at the highest cost, available only to those who can afford it. Universities like Oxford and Cambridge are often considered exclusive and ‘elite’, and with many from po...
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Want to revamp or improve your business? Here are some tips on how helping your staff to improve their knowledge and skills can be one of the best ways to do just that. The workplace is changing rapidly, and the skills needed to succeed in today’s fast-paced business world are changing along with it. Upscaling the skills of your employees is the key to revamping your business and making i...
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  The lowdown on The Joy Club, an online activity club that provides classes, activities and inspiration galore to help people make the most of their retirement. Retiring is supposed to be an exciting time, when you are finally free to do what you want to do with your life, travel to the places you always wanted to travel to, spend more time with friends and family, etc. But sometimes, peop...
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Innovative language learning startup Chatterbox using its platform to help marginalised professionals connect with businesses and find new opportunities in the online economy. When refugees arrive in another country, it often doesn’t matter how highly skilled or qualified they are; if they don’t speak that country’s language well, they struggle to get work that fits those skil...
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The lowdown on Wisdom, the social audio app that's on a mission to make mentorship accessible to all. Over time, the benefits of the internet have become apparent in a multitude of ways, not least of all in its ability to help us to learn and grow. Whether it’s videos or podcasts, we can use the internet to learn useful bits of information from mechanics, lawyers, mathematicians, quantum ...
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Micro learning made easy thanks to Uptime, the app that enables users to access 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world’s best books, courses and documentaries Have you ever wished that you had just a bit more knowledge about something, but it’s not such an important thing that you would spend significant time learning about it? Like those people who seem to know a little bit about ...
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