Building EdTech Innovation Hubs: a conversation with Finland's Helsinki Education Hub and Turkey's EdTech Innovation Hub ETKİM

Today, our EdTech team members Robert Hawkins and Dean Kline are speaking with Finland's Helsinki Education Hub and Turkey's EdTech Innovation Hub ETKİM about building edtech innovation hubs and the World Bank's newly created EdTech Innovation Hub Community of Practice. Mia-Stiina Heikkala, Lead Advisor, EdTech Start-Ups & Project Lead for Helsinki Education Hub, joins us to speak about the Helsinki Education Hub and how it brings education and the learning ecosystem actors together in Finland and globally. Finland has been at the forefront for many years and this initiative aims is to improve education and learning start ups' product development, innovations, and productivity to generate and implement new innovations. https://www.hel.fi/uutiset/en/kaupunginkanslia/the-new-helsinki-education-hub-turns-learning-and-education-ideas-into-innovations?pd=v Mustafa Hakan Bucuk joins us from Turkey's Ministry of Education to speak about Turkey's EdTech Incubation and Innovation Hub-ETKİM and its importance as part of the Safe Schooling and Distance Education project being implemented by Turkey's Ministry of National Education and the World Bank. The EdTech Innovation Hub, as a part of ETKİM, will be the main center of innovation, collaboration, clustering, research, development, and networking endeavors for the EdTech sector and all stakeholders to support content development, training, and blended digital classroom. https://yegitek.meb.gov.tr/meb_iys_dosyalar/2021_04/01104348_SSDEP_Feasibility_Study_TermsofReference.pdf