Case studies

Private Company
Sweden

Knot OK

The Challenge

Gaming and esports are fast-growing global phenomena engaging more than 2,3 billion people all around the world. Since the very beginning, toxicity, bullying & cheating have been a part of the gaming community and esports. As the industry becomes larger and more professional, these problems are becoming more and more significant and disturbing and must be addressed.

Our Solution

Leveraging the CanopyLAB technology, we have created a global campaign and a learning program to be launched in Q2 2023 designed to combat toxicity, bullying & cheating in esports.

Private Company
Sweden

Crazy Frog

The Challenge

Allowing kids to learn about space and sustainability in a way that is fun and helps tackle problems such as climate anxiety.

Our Solution

CanopyLAB is leveraging the AI-powered learning platform to launch a dedicated learning space with Crazy Frog for kids in Q2 2023. The platform enables children to explore topics around sustainability and space while practicing critical skills related to phonics.

Private Company
Germany

Qfour.ai

The Challenge

To advance Global Business Skills and well-being through online coaching, blended learning, a trainer-led component, and self-paced content.

Our Solution

Leveraging the CanopyLAB technology, Qfour.ai has released a global coaching platform powered by AI targeting the corporate learning segment.

Museum
USA

B.B. King Museum

The Challenge

To Provide access to the heritage of the Mississippi Delta to every classroom around the world.

Our Solution

An AI-powered learning experience platform that the museum will use to deliver digital education on B.B. King’s story and the story of other musicians of the Delta region to schools in the United States and globally.

Museum / Gallery
USA

Withers Collection

The Challenge

Create a curriculum and a learning platform based on the more than 1.8 million photographs taken by Dr. Ernest Withers, Sr., during his 60-year career documenting history.

Our Solution

We developed an adaptive learning LAB and an educational curriculum using photographs as a point of departure. The Withers Collection LAB seeks to expand the understanding of social issues amongst global youth, who, based on social learning, will have the opportunity to share their knowledge to catalyze global progress and build a movement around social justice, inclusion, dignity, and equality for all.

NGO
USA

American Heart Association

The Challenge

To provide education regarding cardiovascular health and emergency procedures, such as the correct way to do CPR, in Spanish and English for global audiences.

Our Solution

The American Heart Association is partnered with StudentLAB. They have released the first course entitled Hands-Only CPR and Hands-Only CPR plus AED videos, which is available in English and Spanish. StudentLAB provides the American Heart Association the ability to reach young audiences worldwide and, in this way, provide critical training for a global audience, empowering them to lead healthier lives and to know how to react appropriately in the event of an emergency.

NGO
Denmark

ATOS - Alternatives to Separation

The Challenge

ATOS works on a two-fold strategy: to prevent children’s unnecessary separation from their families and to find local alternative family-based care services for children without parents. The challenge is to assist communities in building local protection systems to respond to the needs and social problems faced by families at risk of separation. Using advocacy and raising awareness, they strengthen the country's social services and protection mechanisms.

Our Solution

We helped ATOS to deliver a course focused on the dangers of volunteerism: How to be a Smart Volunteer, through our free e-Learning platform for youth, StudentLAB. This course aimed to teach the learner how dangerous it can be for children to be placed in an orphanage and how harmful it can be to support these systems, primarily through volunteerism.

NGO
Kenya

Dream Rise Foundation

The Challenge

Dream Rise Foundation works towards implementing Sustainable Development Goals 4 and 17, Quality Education, and Partnership for Goals, respectively. Therefore, they prioritize partnerships with other organizations with the same goals. Hence, they were looking for a partner to implement their programs for mentorship and training in a social and adaptive setting.

Our Solution

We provided Dream Rise Foundation the opportunity to create the course: Introduction to Personal Developmenton our free platform for youth StudentLAB. The course is aimed at providing young people with tools and ways to improve their knowledge of the SDGs #4 and #17.

Organization
Sweden

Project ARC

The Challenge

Project ARC’s is all about "Authentic Learning", thus achieving desired outcomes that every teacher wants to have in their classroom for every student. Different teaching methodologies have allowed for different types of student exploration including those introduced by Project ARC. Courses consider the following questions: What can teachers do regardless of their classroom subject, size or student age? How could their successful workshops be translated into the online environment?

Our Solution

Project ARC is offering two introductory courses for teachers that would allow them to question some of their methods and see the value behind Project Arc’s methodology. Through forums and use of collaborative exercises, teachers were able to learn from each other.

Nonprofit
USA

YABT

The Challenge

The Young Americas Business Trust's (YABT) LAB is used to combine and centralize the efforts in two of its leading programs, the Young Americas Forum and the YABT Talent and Innovation Competition (TIC), in order to provide a better experience for the young people registered. Additionally, YABT seeks to reach millions of young men and women who want to acquire 21st century career skills training to support social entrepreneurship. Specifically, YABT will create a series of courses on leadership, civic participation and entrepreneurship aimed at promoting dialogue, group work and personal development.

Our Solution

Through its partnership with CanopyLAB, any student registered in YABT’s programming as well as existing uses in StudentLAB can have access to all entrepreneurship courses created by CanopyLAB and its various entrepreneurship-focused partners. As the partnership and audience grow, platform data and requests from users will be used to guide the creation of new courses meant to ensure a comprehensive lifelong training program around business innovation.

Think tank
Germany

Clal

The Challenge

The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (Clal) wanted to implement online leadership programs and use a platform that could make their training programs more engaging and more efficient. They were looking to offer meaningful learning experiences for their audience but doing so with the traditional approach of video lectures and boilerplate assignments had not been working. In keeping with its mission, Clal needed a platform that fostered social interaction and which built learning around the exchange of ideas.

Our Solution

A LAB from CanopyLAB fit Clal’s needs by providing an easy-to-use entry point to make their training programs much more effective. Course creators loved the process of using AICATO, our AI-based course authoring tool, to create a course in minutes because it made their job easier while maintaining high standards of rigor. In addition, Clal’s focus on community building meant a LAB made making connections simple thanks to its social networking and tagging functionality.

Agency
Italy

IFAD

The Challenge

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) sought to create engaging courses to help individuals understand its mandate and also to become more aware of the impact of their food choices. Courses answer important questions such as: “where does my food come from?” and “what choices can I make in order to be more sustainable and fair?”

Our Solution

IFAD sought to create engaging courses to help individuals understand its mandate and also to become more aware of the impact of their food choices. Courses answer important questions such as: “where does my food come from?” and “what choices can I make in order to be more sustainable and fair?”

Private Company
USA

HER Foundation

The Challenge

The HER foundation aims to provide support and education for mothers with HG, a pregnancy disease marked by rapid weight loss, malnutrition, and dehydration due to unrelenting nausea and/or vomiting. Their biggest challenges include sharing research findings and important information with mothers who are often too sick to read through dense information packages about their illness. They offer online support via facebook groups or Instagram pages which is a tedious task for their staff to keep track of their thousands of followers.

Approach

HER foundation has partnered with CanopyLAB to create free online courses on the LAB for anyone in the world through short, relatable and easy to digest content. Courses include a survival guide for expecting mothers, a breakdown of physical and psychological symptoms and remedies and even an introductory HG course for family members, friends and anyone involved in the life of an HG mom. Users can explore course content at their own pace and easily access or revisit specific materials such as videos, infographics and additional resources within the units. The platform’s social features will create a space for mothers who spend a significant amount of time alone at home or in the hospital during their pregnancy to connect with a global support system.

Result

The first courses were launched on October 1st, 2019. Throughout the preparation of the release, HG moms themselves have been involved in the course creation process by sharing their stories through videos about their experience with HG providing tips for other moms that will be part of the course series. You can access the first course in the series here. Fast forward to May 2020, and we are still collaborating immensely with HER Foundation, who has created an incredible free course on Covid-19 & Pregnancy.

NGO
Suriname

Green Heritage Fund Suriname

The Challenge

To find a learning platform to share formal and informal training related to the sustainable use of natural resources. Moreover, to build a community to promote values of nature conservation and ethics.

Our Solution

Our partnership allows the Green Heritage Fund Suriname to create and release a series of courses in Dutch on our free learning platform StudentLAB. Their commitment to promoting sustainable development in Suriname through conservation, education, empowerment, and research will be furthered by our AI-powered platform, allowing them to reach more people to educate themselves on the protection of natural resources and ecosystems and create a wonderful community surrounding these important topics.

NGO
Iraq

Ideas Beyond Borders

The Challenge

To break down the barriers of learning, education, and information imposed by different dictatorships by spreading knowledge, guidance, and pedagogy to all the countries in the Middle East.

Our Solution

CanopyLAB supports Ideas Beyond Borders' mission to make educational content available to Arabic speakers. Through the partnership, they will translate courses on mental health, technology, and human rights, among others, and publish the courses in Arabic on our free learning platform StudentLAB. One of these courses is استيعاب الصحة النفسية والرفاه – سلسلة الصحة النفسية (Understanding Mental Health and Well-Being - The Mental Health Series) available in StudentLAB.

NGO
Costa Rica

TeenSmart International

The Challenge

Empowering youth outside Costa Rica to embrace their full potential and make healthy life choices. TeenSmart International does this through their app- Joven Salud, but they want to reach more young girls and boys in Latin America to provide free access to their programs.

Our Solution

Through our open learning StudentLAB platform, Teen Smart created several leadership and personal development courses in Spanish, including Planeando mi Futuro and Descubriendo mis Emociones. These courses invite youth to reflect on their lives and seek to empower them to uplift themselves and their communities.

NGO
Venezuela

Vitalis

The Challenge

To promote environmentally friendly solutions to problems related to the non-sustainable use of natural resources due to lacking knowledge of the possible negative impact on human populations and nature.

Our Solution

Leveraging our proprietary Ai-powered LXP, Vitalis created courses on ecology and the environment. They have built a community of young learners from Latin America who take action in their local communities and work together for the environment. The courses have a strong call-to-action component. Some of their courses are available to the public in StudentLAB, including Jardines Botánicos y Ciudadanía: ¿Cómo involucrarnos? and Derecho Ambiental Para No-Abogados.

NGO
Peru

MOCICC

The Challenge

Address the causes and effects of climate change that affect the most vulnerable populations in Peru. Due to Covid-19, MOCICC had to transform their traditional in-person workshops, debates, and community-focused events to continue mobilizing and generating citizen-led discussions.

Our Solution

We provided MOCICC with an AI-powered learning platform. The integrated social media network component was especially important for them and their community-building efforts. In addition to creating courses, MOCICC leverages our Zoom integration to host live online sessions. Later, the lives sessions were made available as asynchronous learning. You can access some of the workshops in StudentLAB including Escuela de Activismo 2021 and Escuela de Activismo Climático 2022. Both workshops are designed to raise awareness about the climate crisis throughout Latin America.

Student-led organization
Sri Lanka

The Road to Rights

The Challenge

Bring youth and communities together to ensure peace and development through innovation and creativity by educating them on their rights and responsibilities while contributing to human rights, democracy, and good governance.

Our Solution

CanopyLAB offered The Road to Rights the possibility of delivering online courses and live sessions via our Zoom integration, where students could interact with experienced speakers on topics ranging from finances to government and sustainable development, creating a community around youth empowerment. Enroll in the Strategic Leadership and Sustainable Development course to learn more about this topic.

Government Organization
Panama

SENACYT

The Challenge

SENACYT (Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación) is on a mission to provide kids and teenagers with informal learning opportunities related to computer science.

Our Solution

SENACYT has released three free courses for youth in StudentLAB. Among those courses, you can find Código Binario, which explains the basics of binary code and teaches you how to create words using this code.

NGO
Peru

Vera Ciclos

The Challenge

To spread information about sustainable menstruation products for girls and women since menstrual education is the key to achieving a healthier and more inclusive community with greater environmental awareness.

Our Solution

Vera Ciclos will adapt their analog talks and workshops on sustainable menstruation products, menstrual health, and reproductive rights into free courses in Spanish, for youth. The partnership with CanopyLAB will help them reach girls and women in Latin America that need this information, creating awareness and helping democratize education related to women’s health.

NGO
Costa Rica

Fútbol X Mi País

The Challenge

Find a digital learning platform that allows them to reach more young people in Latin America to empower them through sports and social-emotional development. Futbol x Mi Pais is an NGO from Costa Rica that focuses on helping youth from vulnerable communities achieve personal development through sports.

Our Solution

Our free learning platform StudentLAB was the best solution for this plan. The platform enables them to adapt their physical workshops directed by coaches to virtuality. They recently created a new course called Niñez Deportiva that is inspiring coaches and students alike to understand the physical and cognitive development process they go through when playing soccer and how they can become agents of change in their communities.

Private company
Colombia

Azaí Consultores

The Challenge

Azaí Consultores was looking for a place to share their content related to volunteerism and build an ecosystem of people interested in volunteering and, more specifically, in managing volunteers and volunteering opportunities.

Our Solution

Azaí Consultores has launched its first course: Voluntariado para el Cambio on our free learning platform StudentLAB. To facilitate this, we worked closely together on the pedagogics. The CanopyLAB Learning Success Officers provided feedback and support at every stage of the course development process, empowering Azaí Consultores to create engaging courses.

NGO
USA

The Homegirl Project

The Challenge

To provide a safe, educational space, where teen activists, established professionals, survivors, and other girls are mentored and prepared to lead change in their communities and that their voices are amplified.

Our Solution

Through courses such as "Beyond Respectability: Misogynoir, Intersectionality, and Black Women Radicals," which they launched recently, global youth, but particularly girls and non-binary youth of color will benefit from this partnership by accessing courses, resources, and a community that offers support on StudentLAB (CanopyLAB’s free e-Learning platform powered by Artificial Intelligence).

NGO
USA

Coral Restoration Foundation

The Challenge

To raise awareness about the restoration and protection of coral reefs and the preservation of our ocean’s ecosystem. To do this, Coral Restoration Foundation seeks to reach and rally more communities to share their knowledge about these topics.

Our Solution

CanopyLAB’s free digital learning platform, StudentLAB, perfectly complements the face-to-face sessions that the Coral Restoration Foundation already held. We enable them to conduct virtual workshops through our proprietary learning platform, which also has integrated streaming and Zoom. The technology allows them to offer learning experiences that are both synchronous and asynchronous. Moreover, the integrated social network will allow participants to connect and share their experiences with the coral reef and what they are learning to protect it.

NGO
Mexico

Mujer 21

The Challenge

Find a learning platform to provide information and raise awareness about sexual abuse and harassment in Mexico and Latin America in general. Their main goal is the detection and prevention of gender violence through the delivery of workshops aimed at the general public. Their commitment is to help women and girls to feel secure and be able to protect themselves in any case of violence.

Our Solution

With the help of CanopyLAB, Mujer 21 will be the first NGO to publish a series of courses related to self-defense, prevention, and detection of gender violence on our AI-powered platform, StudentLAB, allowing them to reach more women and girls in Mexico and Latin America.

NGO
Canada

CONSENTparenting

The Challenge

To find a place to share information regarding physical safety, setting boundaries, and information around consent for parents and children, to prevent sexual abuse. From the beginning, CONSENTparenting has focused on working with adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Therefore, they are also looking to build a virtual community that allows them to discuss these topics, help and give advice.

Our Solution

Our free educational platform StudentLAB became the support they needed to bring their community to the virtuality and reach more people who have suffered child abuse by creating informative courses. Stay tuned for the upcoming courses they will release in early 2023.

NGO
Peru

Tierra y Ser

The Challenge

Tierra y Ser is a Peruvian NGO with a strong eco-social commitment to helping people in need and creating awareness about sustainability. Their goal is to educate a wide audience on sustainability and climate change and recruit youths to join the recycling programs created by Tierra y Ser and, through their program participation, become agents of change in their local communities.

Our Solution

Tierra y Ser and CanopyLAB, entered into a partnership to take action for the environment and help low-income communities together. Tierra y Ser will release courses for global youth about their recycling program, which will be completely free of charge. The first course is already available. Sign up here.