GESAwards Nordic&Baltic Semifinal Winner announced!

School Day took home the regional Semifinals in the world’s largest edtech startup competition GESAwards and received the commendation and prize from Former President of Finland Tarja Halonen at yesterday’s online XcitED event.

School Day will now represent the Nordic&Baltic edtech scene at the finals in January 2021. The two runner ups will join them in the GESAwards Bootcamp.

“School Day elegantly addresses a clear pain point around the world, putting student well-being at the center point in their solution. As the foundation of all learning, well-being has never been more important.”

Helsinki-based, School Day collects, analyzes, explains and develops student wellbeing for schools to improve learning outcomes.

The two runner ups are:

Lexplore is a unique AI based method of assessing reading. (Sweden)

Gleechi builds software solutions to enable natural interaction between humans, computers and robots to create the next generation of industry training and certification. (Sweden)

Edtech is one of the fastest growing markets in the world, where the need for educational solutions has never been higher. The Nordic and Baltic edtech scene is flourishing and we have many promising and exciting entrepreneurs in our countries, ready to take a position as the best and most competitive in the world. With an internationally renowned education system, good at developing future skills like collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship, we have all the ingredients needed to be the home for the next edtech supernova.Our finalist is a great example of this.

The Jury: Jarkko Elo of AWS, Aurora Parviainen, High School Student, Joke Palmkvist of Studi, Birgit Lao of Innove and Blair Stevenson of OAMK.

About GESA:

Global EdTech Startups Awards (GESAwards) is an initiative led by a group of leading education innovation organizations from across the world. The Awards identifies, showcases and recognizes the world's most promising EdTech startups of the year and semifinals take place all over the world. The Global Finals will take place online in 2021.

About XcitED:

XcitED is a yearly edtech conference that gathers together education professionals, edtech entrepreneurs, impact investors and innovators from all around the world. This year’s XcitED will be held online on the 3rd and 4th of November and it is free of charge.

The Nordic&Baltic Semifinals was hosted by Jonathan Viner, editor of Nordic Edtech News, and co-arranged by Edtech Denmark, Edtech Finland, xEdu, N8 and Swedish Edtech Industry. AWS EdStart, the AWS EdTech startup accelerator, is sponsoring GESAwards Nordic&Baltic Semifinal.

All the Nordic-Baltic Semifinalists:

Seppo - Seppo is a tool for game-based learning. You can easily create lessons that combine creativity, collaboration and use of skills and knowledge. (Finland)

Teachers Lead Tech - A guided learning tool for primary school teachers to bring technology creation skills to classrooms. (Lithuania)

SignLab - a digital learning platform that makes learning sign languages more accessible, more effective and more affordable. (Norway)

Lexplore - A unique AI based method of assessing reading. (Sweden)

LearnCove - Learning platform for personalised learning path. (Iceland)

School Day - Collects, analyzes, explains and develops student wellbeing for schools to improve learning outcomes. (Finland)

Gleechi - Software solutions to enable natural interaction between humans, computers and robots to create the next generation of industry training and certification. (Sweden)

Dugga - A one-stop-solution for all types of knowledge assessment. (Sweden)