Innovation Signals Explorer

A PHBern-led virtual-reality teaching simulator that lets pre-service educators practise noticing and coping with classroom disruptions in lifelike pedagogical situations.

An open-source, five-layer smart-building platform turns campus infrastructure such as lighting, HVAC, elevators and energy systems into a student-modifiable environment for project-based agentic AI learning.

A pedagogical approach for early literacy that anchors phoneme-grapheme acquisition in familiar cultural visual objects before introducing textual grammar, minimizing cognitive abstraction.

A BeLEARN/EPFL project exploring an AI-powered debate partner that adapts its stance and argumentative style to support structured student argumentation.

Learners tackle scoped, multi-stage workplace simulations with contemporary AI tooling, evaluated solely on verifiable artifacts and rationales rather than multiple-choice comprehension.

A low-latency on-device acoustic model that provides formative prosody and phonetic feedback during spontaneous dialogue simulations without storing biometric voice recordings in cloud vaults.

A verifiable open-standards cryptographic badge protocol issued directly by vocational master craftspeople upon in-person workshop artifact verification.

Real-time eye-tracking and response-latency analysis inside an open mathematical problem solver that dynamically collapses auxiliary formulas when cognitive overload is detected.

A privacy-first desktop application that runs open-weights models locally to assist teachers with syllabus-aligned lesson planning, rubrics, and differentiated worksheet synthesis without cloud telemetry.

A state-curated, syllabus-aligned bilingual pedagogical agent co-designed with teacher unions to tutor students through national curriculum benchmarks without commercial vendor lock-in.

A visual proof workbench that converts abstract algebraic theorems into dynamic geometrical physics simulations, demanding that learners explain step-by-step causal mechanisms to advance.

A ruggedized micro-server running compact language models powered by mini solar panels, broadcasting local Wi-Fi curriculum caches and voice tutoring to remote classrooms without internet access.