Catalogue of Initiatives

Funzi is a pioneering company from Finland that wants to make skills and knowledge accessible to everyone – for free. The service, www.funzi.mobi, revolutionizes learning by delivering mobile-first designed content for people who want to learn new skills and knowledge. Funzi mobile learning is delivered by the cloud and can be scaled immediately. The concept is to provide

1. information services –for integration into society
2. employment services – to help integrate people economically
3. communication and networking skills – to educate and enable people to re-use skills for developing their home countries

Funzi's core competence is its knowledge in mobile learning pedagogy (m-learning) and the gaming industry. Courses are divided into independent learning blocks, easily digestible, with actionable and validated learning outcomes. Following reading and understanding a ‘learning card’, the users may have the opportunity to answer a quiz question, receiving instant confirmation of what they have learnt and understood. Funzi’s card-deck approach allows information to be presented in a way that is understood globally, it is a method already used in learning and has a built-in social component intrinsic to its design.
After launching its first product in 2015, the company assessed that Funzi could contribute to the growing information needed among asylum seekers in Europe. Funzi offers free courses on key life skills, including entrepreneurship, finding a job, food safety, and managing finances.