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International partnership: Coorpacademy will distribute Cegos e-learning solutions in Europe [Press Release]

 

Cegos, a worldwide leader in learning & development, and Coorpacademy, a EdTech startup which deploys a digital learning platform adapted to the learners’ new uses, sign a distribution partnership agreement.

Through this new partnership, Coorpacademy customers will now have access to Cegos’ e-learning catalog on Soft Skills (in three different Html5 formats). This premium content will be available to Coorpacademy customers in France, Germany, Switzerland and in the UK.

Founded in 2013, Coorpacademy is a European EdTech startup specialized in innovative, scalable corporate digital learning solutions. Based in Paris and Lausanne, at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)’s campus, the company is at the heart of Learning Sciences and Educational Technology Research, partnering with EPFL’s Research Centers. Thanks to its digital Learning Experience Platform, Coorpacademy supports companies’ transformation and efficiency by engaging their employees, partners and clients in upskilling on any topic central to their competitiveness, thus reaching top quartile engagement rates. To unleash the desire to learn, Coorpacademy has developed a proprietary Saas platform delivering latest generation instructional design backed by Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Innovation labs, making corporate learning more fun, flexible and collaborative, truly centered on the end-user: the learner. Coorpacademy is part of the EdTech France association.

With its international culture and French origins, the Cegos Group is both a keen observer and a dedicated player in the world of work and business. The Cegos Group deploys a global offering, including turnkey and tailored training and development, operational consultancy, Digital Learning, Managed Training Services, international training projects, and certificate or diploma courses.

Running its own operations in 11 European, Asian and Latin American countries, Cegos is also active in over 50 countries through its network of partners and distributors, which are all leading e-learning solutions providers. Thanks to this network, its Catalogue on Soft Skills has 2.5 million learners per year.

Arnauld Mitre, co-founder of Coorpacademy, explains: “Since our creation in 2013, our vision of learning has been supported by outstanding, premium, unrivaled learning content and our ambition has been to offer the best possible learning experience to our learners. We have observed that our methods, from flipped learning to courses co-edited with top industry experts, showed high engagement rates amongst learners. We also thought that it was time for us to give our learners a pluralistic content offering in order to become a learning hub for top qualitative content. This is why we’re very proud to unveil this first partnership with Cegos, whose content catalog quality has been acknowledged worldwide and has won multiple awards. We’re thrilled to celebrate this major milestone in becoming a hub, allowing learners to find the best available content, with Cegos’ offer plus our existing catalog on learning soft skills.”

Pascal Debordes, Head of Channels and Alliances at Cegos Group, adds: “We are particularly proud to start this partnership with Coorpacademy. This fast-growing company and Cegos share the same learning & development conviction. Digital transformation and technological breakthroughs are revolutionising jobs and skills. The challenge is even more significant with the global health crisis we are facing, and which will have huge consequences on employment and organizations: millions of employees around the world will have to upgrade or refresh their skills through learning. More than ever, L&D has a crucial role to play. The power and the services provided by the Coorpacademy Learning Experience Platform (LXP) coupled with the innovation and the 18 languages of our Soft Skills catalogue is a premium answer to skills development challenges that companies need to address.”

If you want to discover more about the partnership, it’s here.

Swiss EdTech is on the rise!

This blog post condense news from several Swiss medias.

Swiss EdTech is on the rise! In the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) offices, the Swiss EdTech Collider, an incubator specifically dedicated to EdTech (Education Technology) companies, celebrated its first anniversary. Dedicated to ambitious entrepreneurs who want to transform learning and education through technology, it’s already a complete success. “From 30 startups when we began, we’re now 70 in the Collider. We already organized around 70 delegation visits of potential partners,” says Pierre Dillenbourg, researcher at the foundation of MOOCs at the EPFL and Swiss EdTech Collider’s President, in an article published in l’Agefi, a Swiss economic newspaper.

At the beginning, this idea comes from the difficulty for some entrepreneurs, specialized in innovative education, to reach the right investors. “Investors knew well the FinTech, MedTech, SpaceTech, BioTech, CleanTech sectors… but globally, the whole amount of knowledge about EdTech was a bit low.” Other advantage for these startups: the arrival of Coorpacademy inside the EdTech Collider, a bigger company with a B2B business model. “It’s a company that reached a different scale: the direction team has a large business experience and the company already employs 56 people” comments Pierre Dillenbourg on the Coorpacademy’s arrival inside the Swiss EdTech Collider.

Several assets put Switzerland in a good position in the EdTech sector. In an article from Largeur.com, a newspaper based in Romandy, Pierre Dillenbourg speaks about the different assets Switzerland has to become a leading education hub. “Around the Leman Lake, you can find, in addition to the EPFL, the IMD, the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, two university hospitals, and famous laboratories. And that’s only around the Leman Lake! The excellence culture in training is unique in the area. And the ability to find fundings is far more superior than what you can find elsewhere in Europe.”

Initiatives in the EdTech sector are multiplying. On April 19th, on the EPFL campus, Le Temps and PME Magazine have co-organized the first edition of the Forward tradeshow, the Innovation Forum for SMEs. More than 900 people were there to meet the actors that make the Swiss innovation. Digitalization was on the spotlight, and Jean-Marc Tassetto, co-founder of Coorpacademy, intervened in a workshop on the digitalization of continuous training for employees.

Fundings must follow these initiatives for them not to become obsolete. For Pierre Vandergheynst, VP for Education at EPFL: “The institutions and public authorities engagement is not only a bet on future, but a prerequisite for the digital revolution not to be perceived as a constraint for our economies, but as a source of economic growth.” An advise shared by the UNESCO, which estimates that “each dollar spent on skills for young people can bring 15 times more of economic growth.”

Sources :

L’Agefi : La technologie bouscule les salles de classe 

Largeur.com : Le futur de l’éducation s’écrit en numérique

 

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