HackTheBusinessoffers an entrepreneurship challenge tailored for young minds eager to explore the vast potential of Sustainability.
The challenge is to propose an innovative business idea that navigates the sustainable landscape and pioneer new frontiers in the eco-friendly industry relating to agri-food, construction, manufacturing and digital and creative industries.
Participants are encouraged to think critically, creatively, and sustainably, aiming to address environmental concerns and contribute to a more eco-conscious and resilient future in these key sectors!
Who can attend?
If you are between 18 and 40 years old, based in Europe, with a passion for innovation and sustainability – join us!
The HackTheBusiness competition is aimed at bright minds including students, new startuppers, and researchers who want to acquire entrepreneurial skills and explore their potential.
Contestants can participate as individuals or in teams of up to 4 members.
About the Competition
The final HackTheBusiness will take place in the Innovation Forum “John Atanasoff” at Sofia Tech Park in Sofia, Bulgaria on the 26th and 27th of March 2024.
You and your team will pitch to get an opportunity to participate in ENTREPRENEDU’s business acceleration programme, where your sustainable idea has a strong potential to bring real changes into the world, with the help of ENTREPRENEDU mentors.
Most of the discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) tools are often focused on business, but there is immense potential for AI to dramatically improve our educational systems. This is one of the most effective tools that teachers can have at their disposal, often relieving them of administrative burdens. These technologies will not replace teachers but rather allow them to allocate more time to student learning.
AI is rapidly growing in the education sector and is becoming a global billion-dollar market. This rapid growth is due to its ability to transform many aspects of teaching and learning processes. AI can create engaging virtual learning environments, generate “intelligent content,” alleviate language barriers, bridge gaps between learning and teaching, create specialized plans for each student, and much more.
Many innovative companies are creating AI tools to achieve these results. Let’s look at some of the best AI tools for education:
Gradescope
What is Gradescope?
Gradescope’s AI tool allows students to evaluate each other while providing feedback simultaneously, which often consumes a lot of time without AI technology. Gradescope relies on a combination of machine learning (ML) and AI for easier grading, saving time and energy.
By outsourcing these tasks to external evaluators, teachers can focus on more important tasks. Gradescope can be used by teachers to grade paper exams and online assignments, as well as to prepare projects in one place.
Here are some key features of Gradescope:
AI-assisted and manually grouped questions
Time extensions specific to students
Grading with AI assistance
Improved efficiency and fairness
2.Fetchy
Fetchy is a generative AI-based platform created specifically for teachers. It empowers teachers to unleash their full teaching potential by simplifying and streamlining the myriad tasks they face, including creating engaging lessons, generating newsletters, crafting professional emails, and more. By harnessing the power of AI, Fetchy enables teachers to enhance their teaching methods, optimize time management, and make confident and informed decisions.
Fetchy specializes in personalizing generated language to meet teachers’ requirements without requiring them to formulate complex prompts. When using Fetchy’s personalized solutions, teachers can expect tailored results that align with their specific educational needs.
Generate lesson plans
Review history from multiple perspectives
Find mathematical or scientific experiments
Nuance
Located in Burlington, Massachusetts, Nuance provides speech recognition software that can be used by both students and teachers. The company’s Dragon Speech Recognition product can transcribe up to 160 words per minute, aiding students who have difficulty writing or typing. The tool also supports verbal commands for document navigation, which is essential for students with accessibility needs.
Dragon offers many more features, including the ability to dictate lesson plans, curriculum, worksheets, reading lists, and more at speeds three times faster than typing, all while achieving 99% accuracy.
Here are some key features of Nuance’s Dragon:
Accessibility features supporting verbal commands
Voice assessment of students’ work
Dictate work in class with 99% accuracy
You can find the top 10 AI tools for education here.
G7 countries should adopt risk-based regulations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). This is what the ministers in charge of the digitisation process recommended in a final statement released at the end of their two-day meeting in Takasaki, Reuters reports.
However, it is important that the regulations in question “preserve an open and favourable environment” for the development of technology and are based on democratic values.
Forum participants acknowledged that “the policy tools for achieving a common vision and credible forms of AI may vary among G7 member countries.” However, the agreement sets a milestone in the approach of major countries to AI governance amid privacy concerns and security risks.
“The conclusions of this G7 meeting show that we are definitely not alone in this respect,” said Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission’s executive vice-president in charge of competition policy. She added that the European Union should also reach a political agreement this year on copyright protection for music and visual products created with machine-learning technologies.
Japan, which holds the rotating presidency of the G7, has pledged support for the public and industrial deployment of artificial intelligence. Tokyo hopes to get the G7 countries “to agree on flexible and adaptive management,” said Industrial Competitiveness Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura.
