The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), a leading international initiative driving innovation and collaboration in education in Qatar, has announced that five projects will join the 2015-2016 WISE Accelerator Programme.

Launched in 2014, the Accelerator is designed to support the development of young, innovative projects with high potential for scalability and positive impact in the field of education. Selected projects benefit from a yearlong mentorship program tailored to address their specific needs.

The WISE Accelerator also serves as an intermediary to connect these projects with an international network that creates opportunities to share knowledge and find support from donors and investors.

The 2015-2016cohort of five new projects will officially join the WISE Accelerator at the WISE Summit taking place from November 3 to 5 in Doha, Qatar where they will be invited to take part in specific workshops and be offered unique networking opportunities.

The selected projects for the 2015-2016 WISE Accelerator program include eduTechnoz (Canada/Mena), a portal providing educational content, MGCubed (Ghana): a project aiming at improving the overall education standards of girls and addressing the challenges of teacher quality, Kepler (Rwanda), a new kind of university giving access to an ultra low-cost US accredited degree, vvMaths Curriculum Online (South Africa), a cloud-based online platform implementing the Maths Curriculum for grades 1-9 and TeachPitch (UK), a cloud-based learning platform that helps teachers and schools.- TradeArabia News Service