This article showcases our top picks for the best Norway based Education companies. These startups and companies operate a variety of Education solutions. We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands. Regardless, they are all exceptional startups and companies well worth a follow.
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We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
What is EdTech?
Educational technology is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning. When referred to with its abbreviation, EdTech, it is often referring to the industry of companies that create educational technology. (Source)
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Top Norway Education Companies
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Kahoot!
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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share, and play fun learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. The platform offers learning games in minutes for any subject, in any language, on any device, and for all ages.
Based on the mission of making learning awesome, Kahoot!’s game-based platform engages the heart, hand, and mind, creating a wildly more social, meaningful, and powerful pedagogical experience. Kahoot!’s platform and easy-to-use features attract educators and students as well as corporate powerhouses, sporting, and cultural events.
In 2012, co-founders Alf Inge Wang, Asmund Furuseth, Jamie Brooker, Johan Brand, and Morten Versvik established the company in Oslo, Oslo.. .
its learning
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its learning develops e-learning platforms and SaaS-based educational for learners and teachers from 3 to 103.
Scrimba
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Scrimba teaches students coding through interactive videos that are pre-recorded.
Hubro Education
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Hubro Education is a spin-off company from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, and was established in 2013. They deliver modern learning tools, that provide students with a practical understanding of their course through hands-on experiences.
Their products are used as a supplement to the lectures, and can act as the practical part of the course. They develop their products in close collaboration with their customers, leading universities in the fields of business economics and textbook authors..
Ducky
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Ducky is a carbon emissions reduction platform that measures, educates, and mobilizes people to take action on carbon sustainability. It is an employee engagement platform where businesses can engage their employees and customers in targeted challenges, where users log everyday actions in a time-bound, team-based competition.
It provides a full suite of tools to help individuals, organizations and schools monitor, learn about and improve their carbon footprint. It was founded in 2014 and based in Trondheim with offices in Oslo and Stoke, UK..
WeWantToKnow (DragonBox)
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WeWantToKnow develops digital learning tools such as DragonBox, a game that focuses on teaching algebra.
Learnlink
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Learnlink is an E-Learning company offering private online lessons and tutoring-student connection service. The company puts school students and parents in direct contact with talented teachers.
By limiting manual work, they manage to offer good homework help at a reasonable price. It also offers a tailored, personal one-on-one learning experience through their online platform in order to help children learn better and faster.
Founded in 2016 and is located in Oslo, Norway.. .
Motimate
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motimate™ will simplify your workday through effective internal communication.
Skooler
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Hello everybody. I’m skooler a new way of learning through internet.
Way Trafikkskole
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Way is digitizing the world of traffic training, using virtual environments and intelligent assessments to make an AI based traffic teacher applicable in a simulator, a normal car, or on your desktop. Through our software platform and full scale driving simulator, students will be able to easily and efficiently gain the necessary level of competence in order to become a safe driver.
Way wish to create a holistic system and a future standard for intelligent and efficient driver´s training, both nationally and internationally.. .
Mesh Nationaltheatret
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MESH is a 2500 m2 innovation platform connecting and accelerating the startup scene in Norway. Their goal is to make Oslo a vital hub on the European startup scene and help create more startups with international impact and success.
At MESH they believe that they’re entering an era of unparalleled opportunity for creativity, disruption and connectedness. They believe that established hierarchies and outdated governing models will fall.
They believe in a democratization of creation and a new wave of impact through technological and personal empowerment.. .
Bookis
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Bookis is a social marketplace for books.
Kikora AS
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Kikora is a Norwegian company established in 2005 offering next generation web-based digital teaching tools for mathematics. Run by teachers, mathematicians, IT-professionals as well as business entrepreneurs, the customer is ensured a superior product which is currently obtaining widespread adoption in Kikora’s home market, Norway.
Kikoras strategy is to be a global player. The company are well underway with introductions into other EU countries.
The word ”Kikora” means ”joy” in Swahili, and symbolizes both what drives us and what we want our users to experience when using Kikora.. .
Anzyz Technologies
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Anzyz is an Artificial Intelligence company, which uniquely integrates supervised, unsupervised and manual rule based learning through a text analytical algorithm, called CCL (Corpus Cube Linguistics). This algorithm enables interpretation and understanding of the contextual meaning in big data.
CCL stems from innovations led by Professor Ole-Christoffer Granmo at the University of Agder. Granmo and Svein Olaf Olsen established Anzyz Technologies AS in 2014..
EdTech Foundry
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Makers of Differ, a messaging app with chatbot teaching assistants. 19x increased student engagement. 3x increased course completion rates.
Pickatale
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Pickatale brings unlimited children books to iPads. The app is designed to help children learn languages through interaction and narration, allowing them to discover new words and understand how to pronounce them.
Pickatale publishes both classic and original stories, all beautifully illustrated by artists from across the world. For a low fee, families have access to the fastest growing multi-lingual and multi-cultural children book collection on iPad.
Currently available in Norwegian and English, Pickatale will soon be available in more than 8 languages.. .
Terp
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Norway-based developer of interactive e-books
Katapult Accelerator
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The Katapult Accelerator is an impact-tech accelerator program.
Attensi
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Attensi’s gamified simulation training represents a radically new method to achieve real behaviour change in large organisations. Simulations are different from other training solutions – and measurably more effective.
Our solutions blend gamification and realism with deep insights from workplace psychology to make your staff training engaging. .
W3Schools
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W3Schools is an online platform that provides its users with education related to web development. It provides its users with tutorials related to HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, [Java](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/java), JavaScript, jQuery, jQueryMobile, AngularJS, AJAX, JSON, SQL, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, VBScript, AppML, XML Tutorials, WEB Building, and more.
In addition, it provides references related to its categories. W3Schools was founded in 1999 by Refsnes Data..
Bertheussen IT
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Bertheussen IT is a mobile apps developer company and has developed various wonderful applications for the Android and iOS users.
Inspera
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Inspera is the leading high-stakes digital exam platform and end-to-end solution for governments, awarding bodies, universities and schools.
ePekebok
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ePekebok is a Children’s reading platform.
Keen Quality
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Keen was founded in 2015 by Anne K. Espeland and Sylvi S.
Finsrud. The founding members combined experience from the energy sector and the care sector, resulted in the competence- and quality assurance system, Keen Quality Keeper.
Keen aims to strengthen the competence and performance in organizations by providing them with a bespoke tool. Keen has developed a platform where e-learning and training are conducted based on the philosophy “low dose- high-frequency learning results in better learning outcomes.”.
Diwala
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Diwala is a digital solution that allows for easy issuance and verification of training, education, and skills. The Diwala platform allows institutions and skill providers to safely issue digital certificates to their students, enabling them with more job and financial opportunities. With the Diwala Skill Identity Mobile app, students can instantly receive their certificates when training has finished, and the certificates are easy to access, share and verify online for future employers.
Diwala is a Norwegian, New York, and Ugandan based company born from a U.N. Women hackathon in Norway. Their digital platform backed by blockchain technology is developed in close collaboration with schools and institutions in Africa to challenge invalid credentialing processes.
Conexus
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Conexus is a research leader in learning analytics and tools for professional learning in the educational sector.
Mintra Group
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Mintra Group is a global partner for companies within oil and gas, maritime, construction and renewables.
Explorable
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A knowledge hub, centred around the scientific method, research and academia.
NITO
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NITO is Norway is organization for engineers and technologists with bachelor, master and higher education.
Mondosol.com
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How it all began In October 2010 Mondosol was born to create a trusted marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodation around the world online. If you are looking for a room for a night, a flat for a week, or a villa for a month, Mondosol connects people to unique travel and learning experiences, at any price point, in many different cities.
And with world-class customer service and a growing property owners community, Hønefoss (Oslo), Norway. Our Experience On our first travel in Sicily, we’ve learned that the best way to visit a place is by learning the local culture and making authentic experiences.
Our love for education and travel is crafted by local property owners. After hundreds of hours of work each week we are improving the travel industry.
Easy way Monetize your extra space and showcase it to an international audience, reaching more than 44 million travelers per month promoting your accommodation on Airbnb and major sites.. .
LangO
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LangO is a cloud-based platform which connects English teachers with students online across any device.
SimSurgery
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SimSurgery develops and provides simulators for training of surgical skills and procedures in a global market place.
Fronter
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Fronter AS is a Pearson company, having been acquired by the world’s leading learning company in 2009.
Pineleaf Studio
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Pineleaf AS is Trondheim’s fastest growing game technology company, currently working on our flagship title; DwarfHeim. As innovators we challenge the existing mindset within the Global Game Technology industry and want to spearhead a high-growth gaming industry in the region.
Combining a dedicated team, our own cutting edge tools and exiting game ideas, allows us to push the boundaries and create social and engaging products that entertain gamers of all ages, across the globe. DwarfHeim is a new and innovative take on real time strategy games, where players team up in groups of four and work together towards besting the enemy team.
You join a dwarven clan and play either as the Miner, Builder, Warrior or Diplomat. Each role has their unique tasks and responsibilities, but the team share resources and need to cooperate to beat the enemy team.
Each match is unique and last about 20-40 minutes, making the game highly replayable and long-lasting. The game is centered around social and cooperative gameplay.
DwarfHeim is also competitive but with focus on the team, making it perfect for E-Sport.. .
Playing Lean (Lean Friends AS)
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Playing Lean is a new board game designed to facilitate teaching and learning the concepts and mechanics of the Lean Startup methodology.
Simplylearn
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Simplylearn helps professionals to acquire the skills they need to succeed in today’s digital economy.
University of Bergen
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University of Bergen is an internationally recognized research university. There are six faculties at UiB and there are a total of 14,800 students at the university.
Around 1,550 of these are international students. PhD candidates are paid employees of staff, making the doctoral degree at UiB particularly attractive for rising talent.
Mathematics and natural sciences, social sciences, psychology, the humanities and arts and law are taught at Nygårdshøyden, a mixture of houses, shops and seats of learning. Årstadvollen is the University’s health campus, where dentistry, medicine and health-care lie close to the Haukeland and Haraldsplass university clinics.
University of Bergen is a Norway-based company that was founded in 1946.. .
Sonans Privatgymnas
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Sonans Privatgymnas is a privately held company that includes the operation of colleges and universities. Sonans was founded in 1989 to offer education services to Private Candidates for their Norwegian Upper Secondary Schools exams.
These candidates largely consist of students who need to improve their grades or broaden their curriculum in order to enable them to enter the higher education of their choice. Sonans offer both classroom and web based courses..
OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
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OsloMet is an research-based knowledge for the welfare society.
Aski Raski
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Aski Raski is an online tool that offers reading training that includes hearing, writing, finding, reading single words and pronouncing.
MuscleLab
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MuscleLab instruments provide practical, accurate, and reliable testing and training of human physical performance.
Lingofy
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Lingofy is a proofing tools that improve your writing and your workflow.
Niom
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Niom is a biomaterial science institute and contract test laboratory based out of Norway.
Fitsmind
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We at Fitsmind believe that looking after your mind is the just as important as taking care of your body. The two go hand in hand, because what the mind believes, the body can achieve.
We’ve made it our mission to improve people’s self confidence and belief in themselves all around the world by combining meditation with exercise, known as MAP (mental and physical) training. When the simple activity of starting and ending your workouts with visualisation/meditation is considered no more strange than washing the dishes after eating, we’ll have achieved our goal.
———————————————————————————————————————— 1. Mobile offering provided 100% tailored mental and physical (MAP) training guides 2.
Fitsmind Coach – mental and physical training guides supported by real life coach 3. MAP camps – weekly offline events (indoors and outdoors) 4.
MAP retreats – exploring the best of Norway. .
UNINETT
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UNINETT develops and operates the Norwegian national research and education network, interconnecting.
XtraMile
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XtraMile is an online portal that offers e-learning courses for a wide range of subjects.
TorTalk
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TorTalk develops speech synthesis programs for schools, colleges and workplaces.
LoLBoost.net
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League of Legends Elo Boosting, Coaching, Guides and VoDs.
University of South-Eastern Norway
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University of South-Eastern Norway is a university that offers studies from annual studies to studies at the bachelor, master, and doctoral. It has approximately 18,000 students and 1,600 staff, spread over eight campuses including Drammen, Vestfold, Kongsberg, Ringerike, Bø, Notodden, Porsgrunn, and Rauland.
University of South-Eastern Norway aims to have a regional foundation and it has a strong and clear presence in one of Norway’s exciting and dynamic regions. When Buskerud and Vestfold University College merged with Telemark University College on January 2016, the University of South-Eastern Norway was established.
It was established as a university on May 2018.. .
Innovi
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Innovi offers employment services to people who are looking for or granted with permanent disability pension with customized training.
Cerpus
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Cerpus is an IT consulting company that focuses on technology-driven and educational solutions for e-learning with creative solutions.
Proweb
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Proweb design and develops economic web-based business systems and CRM to streamline the business with innovative platforms.
Novanet AS
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Novanet AS is a consulting company consisting entirely of senior expertise on Microsoft’s development platform.
Confex Group
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Confex Group emphasis on education management with various course and conferences for a wide range of occupational groups and industries.
Moso
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Moso built a software platform for practical student training, especially in teaching, health care and law enforcement education.
Systems of Engagement Lab
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Systems of Engagement Lab is an n idea foundry that develops engaging systems. It is a research company, discovering, enacting, and expanding the limits of engaging reflective thinking in the digital environment and humanities.
It uses active game thinking, game-mechanics, and aesthetics for motivating users and solving problems. Systems of Engagement Lab acts as an institutional hub for creative use of technology, aesthetics, design, code, and humanities, while also cooperating with partners locally and globally.
It is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.. .
Avella
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Avella is a specialist consultancy with a focus on integration and architecture. They currently count 21 consultants, all have higher technical education, long and relevant experience and with specialized key skills.
In addition, they work closely with a network of other domain experts. They carry out assignments in several areas related to integration and architecture..
Transponder
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Transponder delivers security and cost-effective IT solution for the education sector.
Studentkortet
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Studentkortet is a mediator between students and firms that functions mainly to provide students with offers and firms with marketing.
Interaktiv
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Interaktiv delivers a complete wide array of e-learning solution, method, technology and content of digital learning programs.
Wright Trafikkskole
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Wright Trafikkskole is a provider of driving license education in Norway for private and professional clients.
Centre for Digital Life Norway
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The Centre for Digital Life Norway is a national centre for biotechnology education, research, and innovation. It is run as a collaborative project by the University of Oslo, University of Bergen, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, supported by the Norwegian Research Council.
The activities at the centre is organised in a governance and networking project, which includes a graduate school, and several research projects. The centre facilitates transdisciplinary cooperation across institutions and fields of research, and between projects.
The host institutions of the research projects at the centre constitute the hub- and node-structure of the network.. .
Future Leaders Global
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Future Leaders aim to contribute to the making the world a better place by focusing on the development of a new breed of leaders.
PBL
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PBL offers kindergarten access to courses, conferences, guidance, and other events for the benefit of children, parents, and society.
Sandvika High School
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Sandvika is a secondary school based out of Sandvika in Norway.
Pocket ID
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Pocket ID is a mobile phone-based application and login via FEIDE for schools that used in place of plastic identity cards.
ASK Privatist
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ASK Privatist is an online store that offers a wide range of online courses and e-learning materials to students.
Pindena
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Pindena specializes in the registration system, cloud services, investment in learning and innovation industries.
Oxford Research
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Oxford Research is a specialized knowledge company focusing on the areas of industrial and regional development and welfare. Within these areas they work with knowledge and innovation systems, development of municipalities and regions, and social, educational, and labour market policies.
Oxford Research carries through evaluations and analyses, and offers consultancy on strategy. They also pass on their knowledge at different kinds of seminars.
They combine academic depth, excellent communication and strategic understanding. Oxford Research was established in 1995 and has now companies in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Oxford Research is a part of The Oxford Group .. .
DotNet Internals
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DotNet Internals offers computer, network security, public administration and education.
Val
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Val is a platform where they educate in Ecological and biological nature-based production, Value chain blue, and green food production.
Folk og Fe
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Folk og Fe offers expertise in the development of children and their dogs with motivational and stimulating learning.
Studentum.no
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Studentum.no is a search and information portal for higher education.
NIC 2021.00
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NIC 2021 is an event for all IT professionals that offer technical education on Microsoft and knowledge on a wide range of technology.
WebStudent
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WebStudent specializes in e-learning solutions, software, curriculum design, and collab with physical centers for education and training.
Vestlandsforsking
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Vestlandsforsking is a project based research institute for knowledge sharing and development, quality assurance and academic development.
EBokNorden
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EBokNorden is a distribution organisation of e-books in the Nordic e-book market.
Bergn
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Bergn provides profitable solutions to increase revenue for organizations.
Global Counseling Solutions AS
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Global Counseling Solutions provides online counseling and interactive resources for businesses, to support their international employees and their families as they transition in a new country, leading to higher retention of global talent. Online subscription includes premium access to transition solutions & experiences that empower global professionals and their family.
Online Counseling Online Training/Courses Webinars. .
Tieto Oppad
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Tieto Oppad offers digital solutions with seminars, and videos for schools and kindergartens with innovative learning.
NewSchool
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Newschool is an Educational Design Agency that helps prepare students for a complex and uncertain future.
SchoolLink
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SchoolLink is a digital communication platform that helps in streamlining strategic initiatives and communication between the school & home.
PeopleUknow
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PeopleUknow offers a digital toolkit for the schools where the students can connect and practice their social skills.
Studiesenteret
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Studiesenteret provides study centers that enable students and learners to get lifelong learning along with tertiary education.
Changetech
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Changetech specializes in e-learning technology that offers educational materials about healthcare and pharmaceutical.
ProgramUtvikling AS
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ProgramUtvikling is Norways leading course provider for developers, project managers and leadership within IT.
Skoledata
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Skoledata provides online and IT services to schools that are helpful in vocational and educational guidance.
flypp.io
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Flypp.io is a engaging learning platform in the world Pitch.
Lærmeg.no
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Revolutionary e-learning software for everyone to use.
Transportfagskolen
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Transportfagskolen offers driving education and other types of courses for transportation field.
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