EvidenceB, the EdTech that offers the first adaptive learning tool based on cognitive sciences reinforced by artificial intelligence (AI) to combat school dropout and Docaposte, the benchmark for digital trust in France and the digital subsidiary of the La Poste group, announce that they have won a major call for tenders launched by the Ministry of National Education and Youth.
The two partners have been selected to design and deploy a new application that should contribute to the upgrading of young high school students in French and mathematics, aimed at second-year students and their teachers. This new educational resource will be available in all French high schools for the 2023-2024 school year.
The award of this contract follows a call for tenders launched in 2021 by the Ministry of National Education and Youth (MENJ) as part of the Future Investment Program (PIA), led by the General Secretariat for Investment (SGPI). The aim is to accelerate the deployment of new digital educational solutions to support the learning of students in general, technological and vocational education. This digital service aims to help teachers set up personalized monitoring, adapted to each student, to consolidate or deepen their mastery of skills in French and mathematics. The MENJ has chosen the solution of the EvidenceB-Docaposte group, which takes advantage of the complementary expertise of the two entities:
– On the one hand, EvidenceB, a recognized specialist in adaptive learning that develops educational resources based on research in cognitive sciences reinforced by artificial intelligence for the personalization of students’ learning paths.
– On the other hand, Docaposte, which has established itself in France as a key trusted player in the service of youth and inclusion, offering digital solutions while being an expert in data processing, hosting, and use, particularly for educational purposes. Docaposte operates, among other things, the Pronote application used every day by 17 million students, teachers, parents, carers, and administrative staff.
The two partners convinced the ministry of their ability to mobilize the best of digital education in order to help reduce inequalities and effectively combat school dropout, in an inclusive approach serving all (accessibility).
This will be one of the very first SecNumCloud solutions, a benchmark for the highest level of security issued by the National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI) — making it possible to secure and protect the sensitive information and data of students who use the solution.
An innovative digital service to help all students in the Seconde classes succeed.
The remedial service project for Seconde students selected by the MENJ provides 24 adaptive modules containing more than 20,000 exercises. The solution is based on an AI engine that articulates 7 complementary algorithms to strengthen each student’s path according to their potential or shortcomings. In addition to these adaptive paths, it also offers digital and physical collaborative workshops to strengthen the support of both students and their teachers. A library of more than 300 video tutorials completes the range of materials for high school students.
This new adaptive learning tool is positioned as a complement to school textbooks while differentiating itself from traditional exercise-repetition tools: the solution works on understanding concepts which ensures memorization of rules.
A project developed in collaboration with research laboratories, Edtech partners and teachers
To design and deploy this new learning solution, the EvidenceBDocaposte group collaborates with many specialized partners. The solution modules were designed by 15 researchers and research laboratories in cognitive sciences and developed in collaboration with the French EdTech start-ups VittaScience, MagikEduk and Mobidys. To strengthen the user experience, the EvidenceB-Docaposte group works in collaboration with French UX experts on topics of accessibility and mobile experience.
In addition, the group has joined forces with the rich associative network of French teachers, mathematics teachers and mediators. In an approach that involves combining the best of digital education, the pedagogical expertise of teachers and extracurricular know-how, the digital application will offer a variety of workshop formulas in French with the network of teachers of AFEF and in mathematics with more than ten associations around Animath.
About Docaposte
About Docaposte A benchmark for digital trust in France and a subsidiary of the La Poste group, Docaposte supports all companies and public institutions in their transformation and allows them to accelerate it, with confidence. An expert in the processing of sensitive data and trusted third parties, Docaposte benefits from a unique positioning on the market that allows it to respond end-to-end to the entirety of a customer need, in compliance with regulations and with the assurance of highly secure data. Leader in trusted digital solutions (electronic voting, electronic registered letter, electronic signature, digital archiving) and the leading health data operator in France with more than 45 million medical records, Docaposte provides its expertise in the design and management of customized digital platforms. Its industrial and management delegation know-how enable it to meet all of its customers’ needs. Docaposte has more than 40,000 client companies and administrations, 6,500 employees spread across nearly 70 sites in France and internationally. Docaposte generated €750 million in revenue in 2021. More information on www.docaposte.com
About EvidenceB
Co-founded in 2017 by Thierry de Vulpillières, Catherine de Vulpillières and Didier Plasse, joined by Philippe Mero in 2021, EvidenceB develops next-generation digital adaptive learning modules based on AI systems. The modules are based on data and results from research in cognitive science (how students learn), Artificial Intelligence (how to personalize learning paths) and digital learning interfaces (how to stimulate the desire to learn).
EvidenceB was born from the observation that recent discoveries in the field of research make it possible to support teachers’ pedagogical choices, by facilitating the identification of each student’s difficulties. EvidenceB works with a B2B2C model, in partnership with the various players in the education sector in France and internationally, Ministries, institutions and school publishers. The start-up was born in Willa, which supports women entrepreneurs, and EDUCATE in London, the largest Edtech start-up accelerator in Europe. EvidenceB was the winner in 2022 of the EdTechX ESG & Impact Award in London, a finalist at the BETT Awards 2022 (the world’s leading EdTech fair) in London, elected among the Elite 200 of the GSV Cup 2022 in San Diego (California), Education winner at the Tech4Good Awards (BFM) in 2021, finalist of the international SheLovesTech competition in Beijing and winner of Amplify / Girls in Tech (Singapore). https://evidenceb.fr/
Press contacts
Docaposte
Agence bpr France Madly Pulval-Dady, Judith Martin-Tardivat, Sophie Decaudin
madly@bprfrance.com – judith@bprfrance.com – sophie@bprfrance.com
Tel: +33 1 83 62 88 16 / 88 12 / 88 11
Edifice for EvidenceB
Stéphane Laurain: stephane@edifice-communication.com / +33 (0)6 98 58 38 35
Ilinca Spita: ilinca@edifice-communication.com / +33 (0)6 64 75 12 98 (EN)
Charles Arachtingi : charles@edifice-communication.com / +33 (0)6 66 31 21 90