Building EdTech Innovation Hubs: a conversation with Finland's Helsinki Education Hub and Turkey's EdTech Innovation Hub ETKİM

<p>Today, our EdTech team members Robert Hawkins and Dean Kline are speaking with&nbsp;Finland's&nbsp;Helsinki Education Hub&nbsp;and&nbsp;Turkey's EdTech&nbsp;Innovation Hub ETKİM&nbsp;about building edtech innovation hubs and&nbsp;the World Bank's newly created EdTech Innovation Hub Community of Practice.</p> <p>Mia-Stiina Heikkala,&nbsp;Lead Advisor, EdTech Start-Ups &amp; Project Lead for Helsinki Education Hub, joins us to speak about the&nbsp;Helsinki Education Hub and how it brings education and the learning ecosystem actors together in Finland and globally.&nbsp;Finland has been at the forefront for many years and this initiative&nbsp;aims is to improve education&nbsp;and&nbsp;learning&nbsp;start ups' product&nbsp;development,&nbsp;innovations,&nbsp;and&nbsp;productivity to&nbsp;generate&nbsp;and&nbsp;implement&nbsp;new&nbsp;innovations.&nbsp;<a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hel.fi%2Fuutiset%2Fen%2Fkaupunginkanslia%2Fthe-new-helsinki-education-hub-turns-learning-and-education-ideas-into-innovations%3Fpd%3Dv&amp;data=04%7C01%7Chapplebaum%40worldbank.org%7C78667cdd9d8741be792208d97c1ae00c%7C31a2fec0266b4c67b56e2796d8f59c36%7C0%7C0%7C637677277341614346%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=Cca3hEvlFjSYf5vkWzOHOeq0jrpyHaERusQIVck1xdg%3D&amp;reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Original URL: https://www.hel.fi/uutiset/en/kaupunginkanslia/the-new-helsinki-education-hub-turns-learning-and-education-ideas-into-innovations?pd=v. Click or tap if you trust this link.">https://www.hel.fi/uutiset/en/kaupunginkanslia/the-new-helsinki-education-hub-turns-learning-and-education-ideas-into-innovations?pd=v</a></p> <p>Mustafa Hakan Bucuk&nbsp;joins us&nbsp;from Turkey's&nbsp;Ministry of Education to speak about&nbsp;Turkey's&nbsp;EdTech Incubation and Innovation Hub-ETKİM and its importance as part of the&nbsp;Safe Schooling and Distance Education project being implemented by Turkey's