Description du projet
Une approche homme-machine des candidatures à l’université
Les étudiants ont besoin d’être guidés et orientés lors de leur inscription à l’université afin d’augmenter leurs chances d’être admis dans le bon établissement. On estime que près de deux millions d’étudiants internationaux font appel à des agents, qui opèrent sur un marché considéré comme fragmenté et non transparent. Dans ce contexte, le projet Unispotter, financé par l’UE, développera la première solution mobile de bout en bout pour les agents d’éducation en utilisant une approche homme-machine. Son objectif est d’automatiser et de personnaliser le parcours de candidature tout en réduisant la charge de travail et en diminuant les coûts, tant pour les étudiants que pour les universités. Le projet prévoit d’atteindre plus de trois millions d’étudiants d’ici 2024. Il travaillera également auprès d’universités en Europe, en Amérique du Nord et en Australie.
Objectif
Unispotter is the first education agent mobile end-to- end solution providing global student recruitment from one source using a human-machine approach to automate and personalize the application journey at the same time, while reducing workload and cutting costs for both students and universities. Unispotter transforms higher education admission and disrupts the education agent marketplace by delivering all of its services via an app and automated processes: university program scouting, application document preparation & delivery, and enrolling. There are over 4 million globally mobile tertiary education students, with 1.7 million students seeking placement support services worldwide and this number is set to increase. By 2024, Unispotter’s total available market is predicted to reach 3.4M students seeking guidance ( meaning a ~ €6.8b in revenue potential considering an average commission of €2000/student placed), of which Unispotter will lock 2% of the market (~€136M). Initially Unispotter plans to target prospect partner universities in Germany and Austria (home markets), and the UK, Australia, Canada & US (the world’s largest markets for international students), and then set on further EU markets. Bringing the Unispotter platform to TRL9 from TRL 6 today, and approaching commercialization by 2020, Unispotter will require funding in the range of €2.4 million which it plans to lock from private investors and validating support from SME Instrument Phase I and II. Unispotter already has the human resources to complete the commercialization plan. Christoph Trost (co-founder) and his team of 5 already grew Unispotter app downloads in Austria & Germany from 0 to 100K. Unispotter anticipates rapid employment growth and reaching 21 full time employees at launch in 2020, including 2 more in the next 6 months.
Champ scientifique
- social sciencessociologygovernancepublic services
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutions
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phones
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
1020 WIEN
Autriche
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.