Web2Learn (W2L) is a research and development (R&D) partner that offers quality digital learning and professional training solutions and services. The company is located in Thessaloniki, Greece, and the team is composed of eight highly qualified staff members.
The company specialises in : a) Open Innovation as a means to empower Ukrainian academic communities and in b) business-academia engagement for entrepreneurship and inclusion of Ukrainian refugee students.
A) Open Innovation as a means to empower Ukrainian academic communities
Since March 2022, Web2Learn has been actively involved in designing and delivering 7 Erasmus+ projects for Ukraine :
- AISTER (AI-enabled Citizen Participation in University-driven Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Safeguarding, https://web2learn.eu/portfolio/aister/) ;
- CAELUM (Open science supporting vulnerable communities, https://caelum.ut.ee/) ;
- UAnited (Fostering youth empowerment for Ukraine through open innovation, https://uanited.org/) ;
- AGILE (Higher education resilience in refugee crises : forging social inclusion through capacity building, civic engagement and skills recognition, https://agileproject-erasmus.eu/) ;
- Baltics4UA (Supporting Ukraine through citizen engagement at Baltic Universities, https://baltics4ua.eu/) ;
- GROMADA (European universities supporting legal and community capacities for Ukraine’s environmental recovery, https://gromada-erasmus.eu/) ;
- Welcome ! (Preparatory online school for children with migration background,https://web2learn.eu/portfolio/welcome/).
B) Business-academia engagement for entrepreneurship and inclusion of Ukrainian refugee students
Web2Learn is the co-designer of EU-funded projects that bring academia and the business sector together to advance entrepreneurship skills and opportunities for Ukrainian refugee students. Specifically, in the AGILE and Baltics4UA projects, Web2Learn carried out studies (cf. Zourou, Boichenko & Oikonomou, 2024, https://zenodo.org/records/11047732) and activities (AGILE hackathon Challenge, crowdsourcing students’ sprint) in which leading Ukrainian innovators, such as HATA Hub, and start-ups from EU countries were actively engaged as mentors.
Since 2014, Web2Learn has designed and successfully implemented over 55 EU-funded projects. Web2Learn has participated in four editions (2020, 2021, 2023, 2024) of the EU Commission-endorsed DigiEduHack competition (https://digieduhack.com/about).