Edtech
Can Games Fix Our Broken Education ft. Yane Frenski
Can Games Fix Our Broken Education? 📚 In this powerful episode of The Recursive Podcast, recorded at ViennaUp Festival, we sit down with Yane Frenski, former United Nations innovation expert turned EdTech entrepreneur. Yane is the founder of Vizipedia, a startup using AI and game-based learning to transform how students...
Every (EdTech) Startup Should be Built on Listening Not Guessing
In 2020, classrooms worldwide fell silent almost overnight. Teachers scrambled to adapt, parents became unofficial tutors, and students struggled to keep up. In Romania, the challenge was especially stark—finding a reliable tutor had always been tough, but the pandemic turned it into an urgent problem. We didn’t set...
What I’ve Learned from Ukraine’s Teen Entrepreneurs
When I started working with teenagers in Ukraine, I expected to meet a generation shaped by war — cautious, demotivated, and perhaps disillusioned. But what I found instead were bright-eyed young people with a practical approach to everything: teenagers who are already working on their future, not waiting for someone...
How We Learn With Lavinia Mehedintu From Offbeat
Next stop for The Recursive Podcast – Bucharest, where we meet with Lavinia Mehedintu. She has dipped her toes in different educational programs as a student before embarking on an entrepreneurial journey of her own, in the learning and developing pool with the social learning platform Offbeat. With a diverse background...
