NEdHo-New Education Horizons (NEDHO) is a Finnish startup grant 2024 awardee, focusing on technology integration into education and delivering XR-related workshops. NEDHO is a member of the European Commission-initiated AR/VR industrial coalition and part of the Finnish interoperable virtual worlds Strategy. In partnership with Educators in VR, NEDHO delivered several workshops for training language teachers in using VR in their classes and created the first AI literacy course in VR. It contributed to the AI strategy for Ignite Learning Academy, created French in VR curriculum, delivered French in VR classes, introducing and leading the first VR and AI literacy courses in the same institution. European Digital Education HUB (EDEH) Ambassador, NEDHO led in 2024 the hybrid squad within the European Commission EDEH initiative, guiding a group of 20 experts in hybrid learning spaces. 

NEDHO has access to a large network of contacts with posts impressions of 1300+. It can offer industry insights and lead personalized instructional design and methodology frameworks definition. Nedho brings in researchers and expert language teachers to co-designing XR training and language course content, supporting you with piloting, implementation and evaluation. NEDHO organizes teachers’ training in VWs workshops and VWs Squads (expert groups applying design-thinking to emerging topics) following the EDEH good practices example. As member of different associations and specialized groups, NEDHO can easily reach the 1.3M+ members of the Technology Investors Group on LinkedIn, the 6700+ members of the interoperable virtual worlds Explorers, the 6000+ members of the European Digital Education Hub, the 4900+ members of the Educators in VR network, adding to 1500+ connections in academia, research, VR, AI in education and 400+ connections in industry and engineering training disseminating project outputs. Moreover, NEDHO contributes to research, publishing academic papers, training teachers or presenting technology integration into education success stories to scientific conferences.