About Märt - passion for education

Märt is confident that we have all the means and knowledge available to significantly increase the quality of learning experience and provide access to education to everybody globally. Hence he is constantly seeking opportunities to make this happen.

Since 2004 Märt has co-founded 5 NGO’s and 4 companies for education development and been active on the boards of several organisations. For more details please visit LinkedIn.

Notable achievements

Märt co-authored the “Youth good ideas book” in 2005. The book brings together the life experiences of 40 leaders from around Estonia with the objective of inspiring youth to find their path.

In 2011 DreamApply.com student admission platform was launched to make student admission more accessible for students and more efficient for universities. Universities have reported up to 60% decrease in admin work after implementing the platform and more than 50% increase in international student applications. The platform has served over a million international students’ applications to full degree studies, student exchange, scholarship programmes and continues to grow.

In 2016 Märt co-founded the Nordic EdTech Forum - N8 which brings together 200 founders of EdTech startups from across 8 Northern European countries. The aim of the organisation is to enable peer-to-peer learning between the founders to improve the education development ecosystem in Northern Europe. Through these really great initiatives Märt has a multiplier effect in improving quality and accessibility of education globally. Read more about the necessity of innovating learning.

Märt is a big believer in cooperation. To improve learning it is essential to establish supportive and constructive atmosphere between key stakeholders for innovating education. To contribute to this he has given countless talks at conferences globally, including European Union and OECD conferences. If you would like to know more, please refer to the list of notable events and conferences . Märt also enjoys doing education development and internationalisation consultations.

Märt is a proud father of two lovely sons.

Gratitude

As education development is a team effort, I very much would like to sincerely thank all of the hundreds of great people who have worked together with me to contribute to developing education throughout the years.

I will try to bring out everyone together with whom we have done significant amount of work to improve the EdTech Ecosystem.

Internationally: European Commission, OECD, United Nations, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, Government of Singapore, Lithuanian Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, Nordic Council of Ministers. Private sector: Save the Children Foundation, Price Waterhouse Coopers, European Parents Association, They Will Be Giants, World Learning Summit, SalesForce, EdTech France, The Dutch School, Emerge Education, Allied For Startups, Metka, Cinqc, Educraftor, countless education startups founders, and many more.

In Estonia: Office of the President of the Republic of Estonia, Government Office of the Republic of Estonia, Estonian Ministry of Education and Research, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Ministry of Social Affairs, Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Estonian state Foundations: HARNO, EstDEV, University of Tartu, Tallinn University, TalTECH, Kunstigümnaasium, and many more. From the private sector: Bolt, Education Fund, Estonian Energy, Telia, Silberauto, ESCU, EYL, Riesenkamff Stiftung, parents union, teachers unions, and many more.

I am also super thankful to my family, friends and colleagues for your never ending support.

Writing this I am feeling deeply humbled and honoured in my heart. Thank you very much.