Bsmart - Pro | Smart integrated digital contents and educational platform

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Applix Education specialized in digital publishing services for education aims to launch Bsmart-pro, which aspires to be a disruptive integrated digital contents and educational platform for the global community of students, teachers, schools and publishers. It enhances the teaching & learning process thanks to integrated tools which allow customizing, creating and sharing contents in its virtual school environment. It creates a new virtual market place in which publishers of e-learning contents will reach to boost sales of digital educational materials. Trend of the educational process is shifting towards a higher degree of personalization and proactivity by the student, which is encouraged to use the virtual tools available to access a variety of digital contents to enhance his/her own learning process which is guided and tutored by the teacher. Publishers and educational material providers have identified the previous as a new challenge, and have created digital educational contents that can be accessed by the student via internet. Bsmart-pro integrates both business approaches, creating a cloud based multifunctional multi-user educational platform that will allow publishers to increase sales; students and teachers to access multimedia content interacting which each other in an e-learning process that offers multiple opportunities to boost personalization, flexibility, socialization and game-like learning; and last but not least, schools heads to improve the efficiency and competitive edge of their schools. To date, a basic version of Bsmart is operating in Italy with over 126.000 users as of Sept, 2015. We have now to integrate new functional modules and prepare scaled-up demonstrations across European countries. We aim to execute technical feasibity tasks as well as perform a deep Market Study, preparing our Commercial Strategy, establishing an IP protection strategy for the BSmart core algorithms, all to be considered in Bsmart-pro Business Plan.
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/711653
Start date: 01-12-2015
End date: 31-03-2016
Total budget - Public funding: 71 429,00 Euro - 50 000,00 Euro
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Applix Education specialized in digital publishing services for education aims to launch Bsmart-pro, which aspires to be a disruptive integrated digital contents and educational platform for the global community of students, teachers, schools and publishers. It enhances the teaching & learning process thanks to integrated tools which allow customizing, creating and sharing contents in its virtual school environment. It creates a new virtual market place in which publishers of e-learning contents will reach to boost sales of digital educational materials. Trend of the educational process is shifting towards a higher degree of personalization and proactivity by the student, which is encouraged to use the virtual tools available to access a variety of digital contents to enhance his/her own learning process which is guided and tutored by the teacher. Publishers and educational material providers have identified the previous as a new challenge, and have created digital educational contents that can be accessed by the student via internet. Bsmart-pro integrates both business approaches, creating a cloud based multifunctional multi-user educational platform that will allow publishers to increase sales; students and teachers to access multimedia content interacting which each other in an e-learning process that offers multiple opportunities to boost personalization, flexibility, socialization and game-like learning; and last but not least, schools heads to improve the efficiency and competitive edge of their schools. To date, a basic version of Bsmart is operating in Italy with over 126.000 users as of Sept, 2015. We have now to integrate new functional modules and prepare scaled-up demonstrations across European countries. We aim to execute technical feasibity tasks as well as perform a deep Market Study, preparing our Commercial Strategy, establishing an IP protection strategy for the BSmart core algorithms, all to be considered in Bsmart-pro Business Plan.

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CLOSED

Call topic

ICT-37-2015-1

Update Date

26-10-2022
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Horizon 2020
H2020-EU.2. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP
H2020-EU.2.1. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
H2020-EU.2.1.1. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
H2020-EU.2.1.1.0. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - ICT - Cross-cutting calls
H2020-SMEINST-1-2015
ICT-37-2015-1 Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
H2020-EU.2.3. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
H2020-EU.2.3.1. Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument
H2020-SMEINST-1-2015
ICT-37-2015-1 Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)