"Learning rocket"

"Learning rocket" is innovative learning technology that will help disadvantaged youth around the world to develop and improve their skills for their future employment. It’s a computer based machine in form of a rocket (mobile kiosk), placed where needed, offering interactive future employment oriented education and training for youth.

1. "Learning rocket" is revolutionary solution for providing personalized education based on ICT and artificial intelligence. Learning rockets have form of mobile kiosk, which will be placed in communities without schools, or places where students are not interested (or refuse) to attend traditional conservative education classes, and look for new contemporary ways of acquiring skills for their future oriented jobs and challenges. The learning rocket can be adapted for long-term and short term education process or training, depending on the interest of the learner. Each student (learner) will be awarded with learning rocket certificate after finishing the chosen modules.

2. Its purpose is to enable youth to get education according their will, interests and preferences towards their future job. Learning rockets will offer interactive personal education and training to young people who are disadvantaged from different economic, social, health, geographic, legal or political reasons. The most important, this way disadvantaged youth will be empowered with future jobs oriented skills and competences, which will facilitate their access to the labor market. Learning rockets prevent society from “early school leaving” phenomena, attract “problematic” youth and help them to educate in a personalized, future oriented way.

3. The "Learning rockets" can be placed anywhere across the world, allowing any interested young learner to take advantage of it and have modern, personalized education and training. Education and training will become available and easy accessible for everyone, anywhere, anytime.

Some of the existing problems in the education: 

(1) early school leaving (only in EU there are 5,5 millions of youth between 18-24 who left school) (European Commission, 2013), 

(2) in just couple of years from now learning will be focused on skills and competences, rather than knowledge (Scott, 2015); 

(3) learning process will be tailored to the needs of each individual and their active re-integration into real life (Ala-Mutka et al., 2010; Learnovation, 2009); 

(4) the future requires innovative and modern education system (Redecker et al., 2010). “Learning rocket” exactly meets the education needs for the future. 

"Learning rocket" offers personalized education and training according preferences of the learners and according the needs of the future labor market. People will have opportunity to get education and acquire skills and competences in a different, more convenient and interesting way. Young people will not leave school, but rather will enjoy in learning in a new environment and prepare for the different future job, than those from today. Additionally, adults will have opportunity for re-qualification and career change, no matter of the age or their previous education and work.

These are the main outcomes expected from our huge world project:

1. Decreased number of early school leavers all over the world,

2. Increased number of educated young people in rural areas of underdeveloped and developing countries,

3. Empowered young people with skills and competences for the future jobs. 

The main benefit is directed towards the young people without easy access to education or training and those who are willing to learn in different future oriented environment, that will catch their interest and attention on a long-term and support them in their employment process and career development.

Official statistics for the country where the project is implemented. - Decreased number of early school leavers in the specific country for 5% in the first 3 years of the project implementation.

Official statistics for each country, to follow up and measure the impact each year. - Increased number of educated young people in rural areas of underdeveloped and developing countries.

Number of certificates issued from the "Learning rocket" each year. - Empowered young people with skills and competences for the future jobs.

Such a solution still does not exist in the world. It is unique for its purpose, as it will completely change the perspective for the education process, and finally will improve it and bring it on a higher, personalized level, where we believe it will give the best results for the society.

"Learning rocket" brings together the entire knowledge, skills and competences necessary for certain area, act as a teacher, coach and mentor for personal and professional development and empowers young people with skills and competences according their interest and according the labor market needs. 

"Learning rocket" is human-centered as it is created to help humans. They involve people from the very beginning, in all phases: design, production, utilization, as well as maintenance (designers of the physical product, software designers, IT consultants, academic professors and school teachers, experts in education, experts in future technology, and other people who have knowledge and capacity to support education project oriented to the future for better education and training of disadvantaged young people).

The "Learning rocket" is computer based machine which should be developed with support of IT and mechanical engineers, education, training and business experts, as well as investors. After the initial design is created, the machine will be produced in appropriate factory. After the production process, the "Learning rocket" will be delivered to the people in need. They would be able to access it free of charge, only with registering with their personal ID number, or will be recognized through the artificial intelligence. Each learner will be registered in the database and will follow the education process towards the final certification.

We came up with the idea to find a solution that will provide free open education for all, available and accessible anywhere, no matter of the economic development of the country and no matter of the obstacles that till now young people were facing in getting proper training or education. Our solution is still in the early stage of development and we still don't have source for financing our work. 

The main limiting factors could be providing long-term financial sustainability of the solution.

Other limiting factors:

- finding proper development and design team, that will understand the idea and bring the requested solution to reality, as imagined,

- will for cooperation and collaboration from education, training and business experts towards creating the knowledge, skills and competences database that will be installed in the "Learning rocket" software,

- maintenance of the machines, 

We apply to Solve, as we would like to meet experts and investors during the event, who will help us to proceed towards the pilot project phase, as well as to final implementation of our solution across the world. We believe that it is one of the most influential event, as it is seeking solutions for the world, solutions that will help humans, solutions that will improve the overall well-being of the society. We, as a Solvers would be honored to be part of this solution paradigm.

We don't have partners at the moment. MIT's Solve Global Challenges 2017 will be our first chance to find partners and bring to life our solution.

No competitors for the moment.