EUSI Mirna Karzen – additional comments 7.09.2018. “Innovation: either disruptive or incremental (building on what has been done before). Critically, the idea must be innovative at least within its given socio-economic and geographical context.” “Impact: the potential of the proposed idea to tackle the issue outlined in the challenge statement. The entrant should demonstrate a clear definition of the problem their idea aims to solve, an understanding of how that fits with the challenge statement and who would benefit from it, feeding into a wellelaborated theory of change” “Sustainability: the financial and environmental sustainability of the idea, as well as the potential for adequacy and uptake stemming from the development of the idea carried out with users, from first concept, through testing, validation and business modelling.“ "Scale: the idea's growth potential and potential to scale and be replicated throughout Europe." For this second phase of the Competition the following weighting will apply to the judging criteria: Innovation 25%, Impact 25%, Sustainability 25%, Scale 55% 1. Tribalingual (UK) Overall comment:
I really liked the project, it is very simple, innovative, different…it allows for a protection of cultural heritage, customs, practices in a very simple yet effective way. It also has an econimic impact as it give revenues to marginalized groups especially unemployed youth. One concers is related to demand and interest for such products and programmes. It is not clear from the project if they have researched the market – a need and demand for these courses? This is why I gave lower grades to impact and sustainability. They are also trying to reach out and develop quite a large number of new programmes in a fairly short time, which is also presenting a risk potential Tribalingual - We are a functioning for-profit business that creates economic opportunities for European youths in marginalised communities, and celebrates indigenous European cultures - through a digital EdTech platform that allows youths to teach their cultural heritage, such as language, skills and customs. Innovation 5 •
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This is a highly innovative project not only in the local but European context, addressing youth employability and entrepreneurship as they manage their online courses and thus business, as well as creates a platform for promotion and protection of European CH – creates a joint European value while promoting local CH Project is providing data and argumentation for high youth unemployment and for the disappearing European culture, languanges and customs (over a quarter of UNESCO intangible heritage is under threat Have well explained their Unique Selling Points comparing other similar products, portals and programmes (e.g. Cursera etc)