Basic Information

Our tagline:

XPRT connects teachers and experts for the benefit of students - arranging a visiting lecture has become easier.

Our pitch:

XPRT aims to develop and pilot a digital tool through which experts from any field can easily volunteer in teaching a subject at school. It could be anything - creativity, solar power, climate change, robotics etc. 

Not only would this be motivational for students, it would also brilliantly support their learning. The goal is to create an application that is simple yet fully functional and would help all teachers across Finland.

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Helsinki, Suomi

The dimensions of the Challenge our solution addresses:

  • Educators fostering 21st century skills
  • Supportive ecosystems for educators
About Your Solution

What makes our solution innovative:

XPRT combines similar logic than ride sharing services and dating applications to connect experts to school communities. Through XPRT educators can contact experts from different fields and invite them to share their knowledge in the classroom. At the same time this allows parents (experts) to be more involved with school community. 

How technology is integral to our solution:

Platform helps teachers to connect to experts who are willing to contribute their time for common good. 

XPRT prototype has been built as an web service and mobile applications which can be used by teachers and experts to find each other, send/modify/accept lecture request and to give feedback. 


Our solution goals over the next 12 months:

Provide stand alone platform which can be used by educators and experts around the world. 

Our vision over the next three to five years to grow and scale our solution to affect the lives of more people:

We are interested in keeping the platform as a not-for-profit solution as long as possible to be able to reach maximum amount of educators and expert. 

We hope to partner with professional recruiting service(s) to be able to reach experts and get funding for operations. 

The key characteristics of the populations who will benefit from our solution in the next 12 months:

  • Child
  • Adult

The regions where we will be operating in the next 12 months:

  • Europe and Central Asia
  • US and Canada

The countries where we currently operate:

  • Finland

Where we plan to expand in the next 12 months:

  • United States

How we will reach and retain our customers or beneficiaries:

We are targeting users by HundrED Community of educators. Currently we are having over 500 community members from 37 countries. 

How many people we are currently serving with our solution:

Only the pilot group, around 20 teachers who have been testing the service and helping to develop it. 

How many people we will be serving with our solution in the 12 months and the next 3 years:

If we are able to provide similar kind of growth rate than for our other service "Triplet News" we are expecting to reach over 9.000 teacher accounts within 3 years in Finland, which represents app. 45% of all primary teachers in Finland. 

About Your Team

How our solution team is organized:

Hybrid of For Profit and Nonprofit

How many people work on our solution team:

4

How many years we have been working on our solution:

1-2 years

The skills our solution team has that will enable us to attract the different resources needed to succeed and make an impact:

HundrED is working with scaling up education innovations - we are doing research on education innovations and running our own experiments all the time. 

Our revenue model:

HundrED combines not-for-profit and for-profit sides.

HundrED.org does education research as not-for profit organization. The long-term sustainability is provided by 2-4 year contracts with supporting partners. 

HundrED.plus runs education products, r&D experiments, implementation projects for-profit. 

XPRT is a part of HundrED.plus R&D experiments and it does not have profit model yet.  

Partnership Potential

Why we are applying to Solve:

We want to build impact model for XPRT and customize the solution for US market. 

The key barriers for our solution:

How the solution can be adapted to US education market. 

The types of connections and partnerships we would be most interested in if we became Solvers:

  • Organizational Mentorship
  • Impact Measurement Validation and Support

Solution Team

 
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