The world is spending more on education than ever before. Education is the answer to parents’ desire to guarantee a future job for their children and to companies’ needs for more innovation and better skilled employees. Education is the key to building better lives for hundreds of millions worldwide and responding to challenges such as climate change, sustainable development and gender equality.

Major changes are required to the ways learning is delivered, students are motivated and teachers are trained. Education is opening up to new contents, teaching practices, assessment tools…

Jointly with my brother, Edouard, we created the Open Education Challenge, launched in partnership with the European Commission, as an invitation to all innovators to submit projects, receive mentoring and seed funding through the European Incubator for Innovation in Education, and get direct access to investors from day one.

We cofounded the Global Edtech Startup Awards, that is today the largest ecosystem in the world for edtech innovations. We continue investing in disrupting startups that are designing innovative digital learning solutions to better respond to education challenges in terms of efficiency, social equity and cultural diversity.