Simplon.co
France
Simplon.co offers free of charge training programmes in the digital sector. It empowers and trains underprivileged and unemployed people to …
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Vivita
Estonia · Tallinn · Transnational · See the Estonia profile · See the Tallinn profile
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 86% 36/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice
Vivita aims to transform children’s curiosity and creativity into real skills and products. They support them to make their ideas a reality using their global experts network. Through child-led activities, children feel a sense of there being no limits to foster their creativity
Details
- Maturity
- Established
- Promoter
- Vivita — website
- Type
- Service
- Status
- Ongoing
- Target groups
- Marginalised young people and children
- Period
- 2018-07-08
- Region (NUTS)
EE00- Keywords
- design thinking, edtech, experimentation, future founders, makerlab
Context
Vivita is a transnational creativity-accelerator and edtech network headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, operating since 2018 across Estonia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the Philippines, Lithuania and the USA, aimed at marginalised children and young people.
Objectives
To turn children's curiosity and creativity into real skills and products, giving them free access to creative tools and mentoring regardless of their economic, social or regional background.
Activities
The model rests on three components: Vivistops, child-led workshop spaces with no assigned teachers or fixed curriculum, equipped with tools such as 3D printers; Viviware, a modular software/hardware kit for rapid prototyping; and My Vivita, an open data platform used to manage the creative network. The initiative is supported by a wide network of corporate, cultural, educational and public partners.
Implementation
- Indicative cost
- Medium (€50k–€500k)
- Time to results
- Long (> 3 years)
- Staffing & skills
- No traditional teachers; model relies on child-led facilitation, Local network coordinators/partners in each operating country
Conditions for success
- Access to physical maker-space equipment (e.g., 3D printers)
- Network of local partners providing space, funding and mentoring (corporate, cultural, educational and public bodies)
- Free access for children regardless of economic, social or regional background
Where it fits
- Governance type
- nonprofit network with public and private partners
- Scale
- transnational (7 countries)
Commonly funded by
Philanthropic / foundation funding
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Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
- Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
- Information source — accessed 2026-06-14
Where it's been adopted
Documented replications and adaptations of this practice elsewhere.
| Place | When | Adopter | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | — | Vivita network | — |
| Singapore | — | Vivita network | — |
| South Korea | — | Vivita network | — |
| Philippines | — | Vivita network | — |
| Lithuania | — | Vivita network | — |
| United States of America | — | Vivita network | — |
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