“Dreams can foster creative confidence: How MyMachine inspires students to believe in their ideas”. This is the title for a brand new article on our work. HundrED is a global mission-driven organisation specialised in education innovation. Based in Helsinki, Finland, HundrED operates globally. Finland has a very strong reputation when it comes to education. And...
The Fueling Creativity in Education podcast “provides listeners with unique insights into the field of creativity research, including best practices for applying this knowledge to a traditional school environment. Thanks to deep dive interviews with renowned creativity scholars, respected practitioners, and passionate educators, every teacher and administrator will walk away with new strategies that inspire...
Changing Education is a student-led podcast series that connects the globally renowned Finnish education approach to international stakeholders of the global education space. For this episode, Alexandra Biris has reached out to MyMachine Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez. Alexandra is a full-time student at the University of Helsinki, completing a Master in Changing Education. Her academic interests...
On Saturday November 20th, over 10,000 participants joined the China Education Innovation Conference in Beijing, China. This conference is organised by the China Education Innovation Institute, founded by the Beijing Normal University. Saku Tuominen, Co-Founder of HundrED (Finland), Deepak Ramola, Founder of Project Fuel (India), and MyMachine (我的机器) Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez (皮特·格利蒙佩为), were invited as international keynote...
We are very proud to share that MyMachine has been selected by the global education nonprofit HundrED, in its 5th Global Innovation Collection, HundrED 2022, highlighting the brightest innovations in education from around the world. The goal is to inspire a movement by helping pedagogically sound, ambitious innovations spread and adapt to multiple contexts across the world. HundrED...
HundrED.Org is a not-for-profit organization, which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education from around the world. Both in 2019 and 2020, MyMachine has been selected by the HundrED Global Academy for their Global Innovations Collection: an annual assessment of education innovations on their innovative approach, impact, and scalability. We have been taking a...
EmJoy Education is a non-profit organization that connects teachers worldwide to help each other Embrace Joy in Education ! It was founded by Dimitra Spyratou (Greece), Dr. Kalypso Filippou (Cyprus), Andrea Magee (Northern Ireland) and Matina Kallivoka (Greece). They aim to empower the community of teachers and their feeling of belonging, while bringing them the support and inspiration...
Childhood Education International (CE International) is an international development organization focused on developing and amplifying solutions that lead to positive change in children’s learning and lives. CE International’s work began in 1892 with the effort to promote kindergarten education in the United States and internationally. Since the very beginning, they have been an international organization...
We are thrilled to share that MyMachine will be featured at the Building Lifelong Learning Systems: Skills For Green and Inclusive Societies In The Digital Era. This event which will take place from 21 to 25 June 2021, is jointly organised by The European Training Foundation and UNESCO. The conference, which is organised with the collaboration of...
About a year ago, MyMachine Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez was personally asked by Arianna Huffington if he wanted to write for Thrive Global. His latest article “Competition is old-school.-The challenges we face aren’t ones that can be ‘won’, and certainly not by individual efforts.” is published today. In his article, Piet makes a strong case on...
EmJoy is a non-profit organization which aims to connect teachers and help each other Embrace Joy in Education. Their important work highlights that teaching can and should be a joyful experience for the students and for the teachers. We are honoured that Emjoy reached out to MyMachine to talk about how MyMachine contributes in embracing...
We are proud to announce that we will be featured at the official first (of what will be an annual) tribute event for Sir Ken Robinson on March 4th, hosted by Nevergrey (founded by his daughter Kate Robinson). Kate shared that she was sitting next to her father when he died, promising him to dedicate...
MyMachine Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez was asked to participate in the opening panel of Burning Questions in Finland. Burning Questions is a Oulu University student-led global event. This year’s theme of the event is “Accessibility: Building Education Towards a Sustainable World”. Accessibility in education is a multifaceted issue. Dr. Barbara Stauber and Dr. Marcelo Parreira do Amaral...
At the final day of the HundrED Global Innovation Summit 2020, Saku Tuominen, announced live from Helsinki, Finland, that the Award for HundrED Innovator of The Year goes to Piet Grymonprez, Co-Founder and Managing Director of the MyMachine Global Foundation. This is how HundrED announced the award: “At last weeks HundrED Global Innovation Summit 2020, we announced...
Last night, we were honoured, together with so many people around the world, to join the HundrED tribute to Sir Ken Robinson. We were deeply touched by the words of Kate Robinson, remembering her father, while giving so many of us the extra push to keep doing what we do, to make education a better...
We are extremely honoured to announce that Suné Stassen, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Open Design Afrika has asked MyMachine to make a contribution to the 2020 edition of the Open Design Afrika Festival (27-31 October). The festival programme is curated (by experts from South Afrika, Morocco, Ghana, Germany, France, Finland China and USA) to...
Fablab Croatia, founded by Roberto Vdovic, is hosting its annual STEAM Week online this year. This event is targeting educators in Hrvatska to inform, demonstrate, and practice new ways of educating students in schools. Fablab Croatia has engaged 20 keynotes from Austria, Belgium, China, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the USA. These keynotes will share their...
In the framework of the strategic partnership between the UNESCO Futures of Education Taskforce and HundrED, both partners are looking to crowdsource ideas and opinions on the future of education as part of their comprehensive report launching next year. The UNESCO Futures of Education Taskforce works under the leadership of the President of Ethiopia, Her...
What if young learners could be inspired to shoulder 100% of the responsibility for their own learning? How can schools and classrooms be designed to foster self-directed learning? What are the key motivating factors for self-directed learning? What are high-quality examples of self-directed learning and how can they scale? HundrED, Transcend,...
We are delighted to announce the official launch of our book What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children Change Education Worldwide in Portugal. MyMachine Portugal and Folio are collaborating to launch the book. This will happen at the Opening Night of the International Literature Festival Folio in Obidos. On Friday October 11th MyMachine Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez...
MyMachine is all about a special collaboration between students of primary, higher and secondary education, creating the dream machines invented by the primary school students. So to be honest, we know a little something about creating special collaborations. But this one however was new to us. And what a marvel. We are really proud to present...
During the last week of March, all MyMachine Coordinators from around the world gathered in the Annual MyMachine Coordinators Meeting. This year, MyMachine Slovakia was the host of the meeting. The 2 day meeting took place in Kosice, where the Carpathian Foundation has its offices. The meeting offers the opportunity to share expertise and knowhow...
For the past two years, the Creative Alentejo partnership has examined best practices, knowhow and strategies on the development dynamics of creative territories and the relationship of these territories with formal and non-formal training in a logic of transmission and empowerment of businesses and professionals in the creative sector. This partnership has asked MyMachine to...
The London-based company THE PIE is a news and business analysis company for professionals in international education. The PIE Founder and Managing Director Amy Baker and MyMachine Co-Founder & Managing Director Piet Grymonprez met at Going Global in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) earlier this year. Now The PIE News has published the interview: you can find...
Belgian media company ZIGO interviewed one of our three co-founders at MyMachine. ZIGO is not just another media company. Its baseline is “Makes Optimism Easy” and brings the story of people (they call them pioneers) who do not accept the status quo and take positive action to better our society. It is therefore a great...
The February edition of the magazine “Ondernemers” (Entrepreneurs) of the Belgian Chamber of Commerce (VOKA) features an interview with MyMachine Flanders & Brussels coordinator Aagje Beirens and MyMachine Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez. The article focusses on the Global Reimagine Education Presence Learning Gold Winner 2018 award MyMachine received in Philadelphia last December and how exactly MyMachine...
What happens if you bring in 450 child-inventors into one room at HOWEST University of Applied Sciences in Kortrijk? The answer is: they become loud and enthusiastic feedback machines to the university students that are designing their inventions. Each year again, it’s so wonderful to see the university students getting hands-on honest feedback from the...
We’re very proud to announce yet again, that MyMachine is becoming a bit bigger. A couple of weeks ago, the Cultiva Foundation has signed the MyMachine Norway License. Cultiva Foundation is honored to introduce MyMachine in Norway. Cultiva was established 6 December 2000 by the Municipality of Kristiansand to ensure that a portion of the profits made from...
We’re a little bit proud to announce that today, MyMachine is featured across Virgin.com. We’re very happy with this, as Virgin is supporting MyMachine big time by doing this. This communication will reach out to many people across the globe, which hopefully will bring new links to what we’re doing. You can find it here:...
Today we were honoured by the visit of an important Indian delegation from Karnataka. Dr. Ashwath Narayan is an Indian politician, member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly representing BJP from Malleshwaram constituency, Bangalore, Karnataka. He is often credited with Malleshwaram witnessing massive transformation in several sectors including healthcare, welfare, education, sports, infrastructure and several others under his leadership. With a focus on education, Dr. Ashwath Narayan...
Monday October 3. London. The Mermaid. 13.30PM. MyMachine co-founder Piet Grymonprez had the pleasure to pitch MyMachine main stage at the Virgin Disruptors 2016 event. The 2016 edition of Virgin Disruptors was based on the theme People Creating Change and hosted speakers on 4 theme’s: Purpose, Planet, People and Performance. The public of several hundreds...
Today something unique happened. We were invited by Punith Raj to do a “MyMachine workshop” in his coaching center, called JJ Academy. Punith has taken the initiative to start this academy to help out 120 children in this neighborhood of Bangalore, with their homework or teach them extra courses. This happens each day from Monday...
MyMachine is very proud to be invited to talk at this international conference co-organized by India Platform and BMS College of Engineering, in Bengaluru, India. The Conference that will take place on the 10th and 11th of June, has one theme: The Concern for Creativity. The organizers claim that all around Asia, there is a growing concern about...
It’s May 20, 2016. It’s been proclaimed officially by the Governor as MyMachine Day in the State of Oklahoma. It’s Friday evening. It’s Oklahoma City. It’s on Film Row. It’s 70° F. It’s a Block Party. It’s packed with food trucks. And most importantly, 8 elaborated dream machines from MyMachine Oklahoma are on display. Congratulations...
MyMachine Global is proud to announce it started a collaboration with The New York Academy of Sciences. Today Hank Nourse – Director Digital Content Strategy and Instructional Design, met again with MyMachine global Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez in New York. The New York Academy of Sciences is the world’s nexus of scientific innovation in the service of...
We are very honored to announce that MyMachine has signed a new franchise agreement. The Carpathian Foundation has taken a franchise to start MyMachine Slovakia. This means that MyMachine, honored by United Nations, is now in on 3 continents in 7 countries: Belgium, France, Slovenia, Portugal, Slovakia, South Africa and USA. The MyMachine Foundation is...
Today we’re proud to announce that MyMachine will be a keynote speaker at the Internet of Education Conference 2015 in Sarajevo (Friday 18 September 2015). The goal of this event is to bring together researchers and policy makers from both university and academia to present methods for improving the effectiveness of online and open education but also promote discussion...
Today, MyMachine Óbidos is visiting MyMachine Global in the city of Kortrijk, Belgium. Miguel Silvestre who is running MyMachine Óbidos together with Ana Sofia Godinho, brought with him a group of Portuguese Mayors. Left: Miguel Silvestre, MyMachine Óbidos Middle: Piet Grymonprez, Co-Founder MyMachine Right: Telmo Faria, former Mayor of Óbidos It...
We’re very happy to share some of the great media coverage both exhibitions benefitted from both in Slovenia as in Belgium. Here’s 2 examples from both countries: In Slovenia the MyMachine Exhibition got almost a complete page in the Delo (one of, if not the most important newspaper in Slovenia). You can see the picture...
Today was a magnificent day for MyMachine. MyMachine Belgium (Flanders) just celebrated their Grand Opening in Kortrijk. The expo tails the 2014-15 edition of MyMachine Belgium (Flanders). 450 Children from the participating schools in Belgium, arrived at 10 o’clock. They could discover all of the elaborated working prototypes and test them out ! The higher education students were there...
This is what happens when you ask adults in Oklahoma to draw their dream machine. No surprise there, you get proud people with brilliant inventions. We like !
MyMachine Oklahoma is starting up in August 2015 ! This is the result of combined efforts of Susan McCalmont, president of Creative Oklahoma and Jeanie Webb, president of the Rose State College. MyMachine Oklahoma is run by Stan Greil and his marvelous team at Rose State College in Oklahoma City. Rose State College offered its first classes on September 21,...
Piet Grymonprez, co-founder of MyMachine, was invited to talk about MyMachine at the Creativity World Forum 2015. The CWF was opened in de morning by Sir Ken Robinson, who gave his in-depth vision on the challenges the educational system has and its impact on our society. MyMachine was offered a spot in the time schedule...
Today we’re a little bit proud to announce that MyMachine is asked to speak at the Creativity World Forum 2015: “All of our Futures: ideas that matter!”. This event is this time hosted by Creative Oklahoma and will take place in Oklahoma City, USA on March 31st. The World Forum features a.o. speakers like...
In 6 weeks time, 6 MyMachine inventors from the past were in the national tv-show, in which the guests could vote if the invention was brilliant or not. Guess what? MyMachine got 6 times brilliant! Here’s a stop motion were you see Brecht presenting his Ball-Cather/Fetcher machine: StopMotion_Brecht And here are some behind-the-scenes-pictures: ...
Last week, MyMachine Belgium was on national television (VRT). MyMachine was a guest in the late night talk show called Bart & Siska. Here’s the link where you can watch MyMachine on the show (Dutch).
MyMachine Belgium was having its Work-in-Progress Event yesterday. It made it to the National Television News in Belgium (Dutch) and the Regional Television News (Dutch). Take a look at this short documentary to capture the vibe NATIONAL VRT JOURNAAL: REGIONAL WTV-FOCUS:
Today, more than 400 children visited the Howest Campus in the city of Kortrijk, to discover and discuss the progress made by the Howest Industrial Product Design Students. It was fabulous.
Proud people in a proud photo: MyMachine Obidos, Portugal has signed the MyMachine license. MyMachine Obidos is run by Miguel Silvestre, Ana Sofia Godinho from Obitec Technology Park (Obidos) and Filipe Pinto from the IPL University (Leiria). MyMachine Obidos has started a feasibility exercise involving 100 children and students. We will soon be able to reveal...
For the next two days, the city of Kortrijk (Belgium) is the world capitol of creativity, hosting the 2014 edition of the Creativity World Forum. We were happy to be invited at the VIP Opening Event to present MyMachine on stage. A big thank you to City of Kortrijk and Flanders DC. We wish...
The Belgian Queen Paola Foundation is dedicated to support the integration and education of youth. The Belgian Dirk Frimout Foundation, established by Dirk Frimout the first Belgian astronaut, is dedicated to support scientific knowledge of earth and space. Both foundations collaborate to organise a yearly contest, aiming at pupils from Belgian secondary schools, that elaborate...
To all teachers of the Northern Hemisphere, wishing you all a wonderful start tomorrow and an inspiring, creative, joyful year. You all are builders of something potentially great!
MyMachine Foundation is proud to announce a cooperation with the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. From the academic year 2014-2015 onwards three MyMachine runs will be organised in Slovenia. The agreement was signed at the Offices of the King Baudouin Foundation in Brussels. The Jožef Stefan Institute is the leading Slovenian scientific research institute, covering...
By 2020 Flanders has the ambition to be one of the top five regions of Europe. To realize this ambition, it must invest in knowlegde and talents. Although many companies and research institutes are active in the domain of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), there is a gowing lack of young people studying exact...
MyMachine is taking part in the international conference, organised by Vrtec Trnovo, on the role of kindergardens in creating an innovation ecosystem in society. Vrtc Trnovo acknowledge in MyMachine an innovative methodology to create cooperation between children, youngsters and grown-ups, in a project that stimulates creativity in education. The conference has a extraordinary (we like!)...
September 29th 2011: MyMachine is introduced to Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne. Frank De Winne was the first non-American Chief Commander of the International Space Station (ISS) and was also via sattelite for one song the fifth member of U2 on their latest world tour (U2 360). Frank showed immediate interest in the “Jump-to-the-moon-machine” and...
MyMachine, as a true bottom-up initiative, was recently triggered by Sir Ken Robinson. Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UK Government. ‘All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education’ (The...
MyMachine is honored by the United Nations World Summit 2009. The award honors creative projects and initiatives worldwide. MyMachine was honored by the WSA International Grand Jury ‘for it’s concept to promote creativity in education, its beautiful website (made in collaboration with Indiegroup) and exceptional example of creativity and innovative e-content’. Click...
