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KIVO 2021 Appllication

Сompetition of innovations in education

The education sector needs fresh ideas and people, who will be able to put them into life. This Competition is for everyone, there are no restrictions on age and professional affiliation. If you want to offer something to improve education, this Competition is for you.

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About Competition

KIVO Competition is the contest for grassroots educational innovations with more than 12K alumni worldwide. The Competition is an initiative led by the HSE University's Institute of Education and Rybakov Foundation with the support of Agency for strategic initiatives.

The Competition identifies, showcases and recognizes the most promising grassroots educational innovations of the year.
We invite teachers or parents, entrepreneurs, authors of pedagogical and management innovations, students or deans and all those interested in education to participate in the Competition.

The winner of the Competition receives the travel grant to showcase his project anywhere in the world.

At the final, the authors of the best projects introduce them to investors and wide audience. Our sponsors and partners annually announce additional nominations for the Competition finalists and within them hand in their prizes, including foreign internships or financial support.

We invite to participate small teams of 2-6 people.

Within the Competition we consider startups at their early stage. Regardless of the phase of project's development, each team must show that they have something more than an abstract idea.

The peculiarity of the Competition is that it is also an accelerator. During the Summer school we will help your team to elaborate and finalize the project and introduce it to potential investors or partners.

Competition timeline

01 April - 31 May 2021

Online Application

To apply the Competition you need to fill the special registration form collecting information related to the project and the team. All the applications are reviewed by the broad expert panel according to the competition criteria.

Announcement of semifinals: 10 June, 2021

21 June -8 July 2021

Online Accelerator - Summer School

The teams that pass the first elimination round take part in the second stage of the Competition - the summer school, where they get the opportunity to finalize the project after individual education and business tutorials.

At this stage, not only the concept of the project will be evaluated, but also the way it will be introduced. The participants will be compensated for transportation, food and accommodation expenses. The brightest and most active participants of the second stage will be given a chance to take part in various sponsorship events.
The finals participants will be announced in September.

October 2021

Finals

The finals of the Competition is traditionally held within the framework of the International Conference on New Educational Technologies #EdCrunch.

At this stage, the participants present the finalized projects to the jury, potential investors and wide audience.

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The main prize-winner
www.tensy.io

Peer tutoring platform for school students

List of the finalists in 2020

Tournament of Three Sciences. Federal competition of student teams for public problem solving from industrial companies in the field of physics, chemistry and biology / Voronezh

Educational constructor kit Erema. Constructor - adaptation of Arduino for schoolchildren / Yekaterinburg
Professional design for orphans "YOU CAN". A platform for career guidance for orphans / Minsk
GOALBALL. Methodology for Paralympic Ball Games Adaptation for the Visually Impaired and Student Involvement / Korolev
All-Russian reserved lesson. A set of interactive lessons about protected areas of Russia in Russian and English / Moscow
Educational Extravaganza Online Sockets. Online event about current problems of education / Moscow
Manage-PRO. Consulting service for school administrators / Novosibirsk
Startup Junior. School of entrepreneurship and soft skills for high school students /St. Petersburg
Super cool . Trainings for educators focusing on classroom management skills and psychological competence /St. Petersburg
Learn Braille. Mobile application for learning Braille / St. Petersburg

The main prize-winner of the Competition

Lifestyle
An educational hostel where you can prepare for an independent life through trainings and long-term programs

"Znanika" online school
Teacher for Russia. A project that creates a mechanism for attracting brilliant young specialists of all specialties to the profession of a school teacher and a community of young leaders interested in self-development within secondary education system
"Game-design platform" Online course builder
INDI-school - Individual educational programs for high school students
Mobile application guide.land - A series of educational geolocation games (quests)
"EduTap" - Distance learning system that replaces advertising content in all free2play games with educational content
"My history of Russia" Multimedia educational network-type product for creating your own version of historical events
Literacy through photography. Charitable educational program that makes it easy and interesting to study any humanitarian subject for illiterate children and adolescents
LifeCamp - Traveling school for an informed choice of profession
ALP-Enterprise - Internet service for managing the training of production personnel
Interuniversity library service - Portal for searching books or other publications by Russian researchers and students from all regions
Big data in Education - replacing "Big Computing" in the School Environment. Virtual systems based on a school computer that emulate the work of a computing center
"Designer of educational programs and LNA". Cloud web service for easy and quick creation of legally correct documents.
"Intelligent answer". Educational online platform for gaining skills and knowledge about opportunities in the field of data analysis and Big Data
"Gaming business - education" iPlay MBA - an educational system that provides training and employment of young personnel for given business skills
"Intellect-training". Online service of the international research project Lumosity
"BIP". Interactive blocks and sticks for the development of logical thinking, attention, speech of preschoolers
"Cartoons instead of lessons!". Production of short 3-minute educational animation films by a student educational film studio, created on the basis of the university
School as Business. Project portfolio management case for the implementation of a school management information system based on a project office
Easy Russia. A cloud resource that allows foreign students intending to study in Russia to receive detailed information
"Explore with robots". Information resource that allows you to organize the process of teaching the basics of robotics
"Engineers V 2.0". Engineering training project
"Itscool.ru". School subjects in the form of visualized video lessons

In 2020 the Competition of Innovations in Education accepted

405

applications

103

cities

3

countries

Jury

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Ekaterina Rybakova
Co-founder, council member of Rybakov Foundation
Valeria Kasamara
Vice Rector of HSE University
Marques Anderson
FOUNDER/CEO at World Education Foundation
Neil O'Toole
CEO at EdVisor Finland Learning Designers
Isak Frumin
Head of the HSE University's Institute of Education
Sergey Filonovich
Dean of the Higher School of Management at HSE University
Dmitry Peskov
Director of the ASI's "Young Professionals" Direction, Special Representative of the President on Digital Development
Alexy Gusev
Director of Innovation Ecosystem Development at Russian Venture Company
Dmitry Soshnikov
Technology evangelist, coordinator of academic programs of Department of Strategic Technologies Microsoft Russia
Sergey Lozinsky
Head of Research at Strategy Partners Group
Mikhail Myagkov
CEO of Maximum Education
Dmitry Zemtsov
Vice-rector for FEFU Development
Igor Remorenko
Rector of the Moscow City University
Alevtina Chernikova
Rector of the NUST MISIS
Marina Mykhailova
Program director of the charitable foundation "Investment to the Future"
Alexander Adamski
Director of the Institute of educational policy problems "Eureka"
Jioulnar Asfari
Executive director of the Social Innovation Support Center SOL
Victoria Kopylova
Vice President on publishing at the Education Holding "Prosveshcheniye"

Reviews

Maksatbek Abdunazar uulu
Finalist of the Competition in 2016

Project "Bilim", Moscow.
The winner in special nominations of the Institute of Education HSE, ASI and HSE Business Incubator.

After participating in the "Nursery KIVO" event, our project received a great response in social networks, and in the final part of the Competition we received an "Audience Award". Such success and recognition inspired us, gave us faith in ourselves and in the future of the project. The experts at the KIVO Summer School provided us with many recommendations, advised to work on scaling of our methodology in order to reach the all-Russian level.

But our main achievement was the support of the Institute of Education, which had become our mentor, provided us with a cash grant and also contributed to the development of the methodical and legal parts of the project. The Agency for Strategic Initiatives offered us to pass an expert review, and so we had become the residents of the HSE Business Incubator. Now, together with our partners, we are developing a self-instruction manual, which will help teenagers to learn Russian. KIVO is an excellent platform to start developing your innovative educational project. We wish prosperity to the Competition and advice young professionals not being afraid to offer new ideas and participate.
Oleg Demyanov
Finalist of the Competition in 2016

Project "EDUGAME CREATOR", Smolensk.
The winner in special nominations of RUSNANO, University of Mechanical Engineering and MPGU.

At KIVO Summer School we've managed to get a lot of important comments and advice from experts from different industries. We did not win the finals, but, thanks to the thorough expertise, recommendations and competent evaluation of our project in KIVO, we rethought the concept and finalized it, focusing on the strengths of the product.

Since the finals, we've met with publishers of educational aids, and our project received support from the ASI. The main result of participation in KIVO is an acquaintance with many companies and experts involved in the development of educational projects, and, of course, useful feedback from all KIVO participants: organizers, experts, other finalists of the Competition and visitors of the EdCrunch conference.
Tatiana Dubovskaya
Finalist of the Competition in 2016

Project "Urbani Eko", Moscow
The winner in the special nomination of the Moscow Polytechnic University.

The Competition allowed us to publicly announce our project, and after that we could not let ourselves to abandon this idea. In 2016, we held a series of open lectures and the first in Russia Agrohakaton, where the solutions for home "smart" and vertical gardens were discussed. In 2017, we are planning to repeat this event and hold four Agrohakatons devoted to city-farms and "smart" suburban mini-farms. Simultaneously, we are forming a community for the development of city-farming in Russia, and are also planning to create an online course on this topic. We hope, thanks to our team, this year the first roof-farm will appear in Moscow.

Personally, I would like to thank the whole KIVO team for the amazing sensitivity, responsiveness and assistance in the development of "Urbani Eco". I recommend to anyone, who makes educational projects or only intends to create one, to participate in the Competition and use it as a platform for launching and developing your project.
Elena Antonova
Finalist of the Competition in 2016

Project "Robots go to school", Volgograd.
The winner in special nominations ASI, RVK, IventureBazar

At KIVO we came with an idea or rather even with a dream. With a dream to organize a large business, to enter the international market. We were at the very beginning of our journey, and it wasn't clear to us where to go further. Everything has changed thanks to the Competition: the "expert pipe" helped us pack our dream into a beautiful, structured presentation and develop a plan for further action.

KIVO became the launching pad for us. We realized the importance of our project, received the financial support in the final of the Competition, which helped to accelerate our developments, we believed in ourselves, and most importantly - decided where to move on. Only forward!

Now we are working non-stop over the first version of the product and will soon be ready to present the prototype to the public. Thanks to participation in the Competition, our project is no longer just a dream or a beautiful idea, but a very complex high-tech development. Of course, a long and difficult journey awaits us, but the beginning has been made, and we are not going to surrender.

Our team

Diana Koroleva
Director of Competition of Innovation in Education
Alexandra Semenova
Media & Communication
Anastasia Andreeva
Research
Kavsarat Akaeva
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