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  • March 22, 2021
    Post-Bac educational counselling: choose your training better with the Educational Pathway Explorer
    In the framework of an educational counselling PIA (Future Investment Programme [Programme d’Investissement d’Avenir] call for projects, launched by the Ministry of Higher National Education and Research) and the Caisse des dépôts (French Public Financial Institution), Kosmos was selected for its “explorateur de parcours (ExP)” (Educational Pathway Explorer) project. Developed by the Kosmos solutioning team in partnership with 6 Universities and the Pixis company, its goal is to render Higher Education Establishment course offerings more legible and to allow high-school students to explore the different educational counselling possibilities.
  • February 10, 2021
    SEO (Search Engine Optimization): loading time, an essential challenge for your website
    Page speed (page loading time) is an essential criterion today for the SEO of your university or higher-education school website. Why? Because the time to load a page is one of the key elements retained by Google for search engine ranking and positioning the content of your internet site.
  • January 14, 2021
    Education Management Software: the development of uses has intensified since the first lockdown
    The report by the Digital Department of the French Ministry of National Education of November 2020 entitled “Les EMS Face à la crise sanitaire 2020” (EMS confronted with the 2020 health crisis) highlights the increased use of EMS (Education Management Software) by the educational community since the lockdown. During the first lockdown, EMS have been indispensable for providing remote teaching. Since the end of this period, the rise in use has continued even with the return to face-to-face classes: the figures for the start of the school year in 2020 attest to the increase in frequentation and use compared to those for 2019.
  • January 12, 2021
    Identity and education federation: securing and simplifying digital services
    In the digital era, the student, the teacher, the school administrator, etc., have to access several digital applications every day, which means them having to create and remember many usernames and passwords.
  • November 13, 2020
    AMOA consulting: structuring your digital project
    The AMOA study is an essential step for the upstream securing of digital projects. Before beginning to draft the specifications, it allows you to identify your professional needs and associated features, and to formalize and prioritize them. It will also allow you to determine the time required and the costs of the project. You will then have all the elements you need to best manage your digital project according to your professional needs.
  • September 29, 2020
    Côte d’Azur University: a new public portal profiled by type of visitor
    The Côte d’Azur University has chosen Kosmos to develop and install its new public service, connected portal. With Kosmos solutioning, using responsive design, the Kosmos teams have developed a new user-friendly website with a new graphic identity and features. This project, conducted remotely, was developed within a short deadline (7 months).
  • June 24, 2020
    University of Nantes: a new e-service to better assist candidates in their educational/certificate project
    To more efficiently assist candidates in their continuing education or validation of acquired experience projects, the University of Nantes has made a new application available to them on their internet site in order to better guide the construction of their educational path. It allows them to orient themselves towards the right contact person, to qualify their project but also to involve them in thinking about the choice of their project.
  • May 19, 2020
    The French High School of the Hague-Amsterdam ensures teaching and administrative continuity with Skolengo
    The educational consortium of the French Vincent Van Gogh High School The Hague-Amsterdam (AEFE network) is distributed over two sites: The Hague and Amsterdam. It brings together 1250 students from kindergarten to final year High School. Céline Alric, Headmistress of the Amsterdam school, but also music teacher and Elisabeth Segard, digital manager within the school, tells us how they have ensured teaching and administrative continuity during the closing of their schools.
  • May 3, 2020
    An innovative assistance system for ensuring teaching AND administrative continuity
    Since the announcement of the closing of schools related to the acceleration of COVID-19, schools and universities have very quickly put in place, a new way of ensuring their teaching but also administrative missions. Since the beginning of lock-down, the Kosmos teams have therefore been fully mobilised to keep the teaching, social and administrative links open between the schools and universities and the families via our Skolengo digital solution.
  • March 12, 2020
    Educational continuity #1: How to maintain the link with remote students via the EMS?
    Following the closing of many schools and universities for avoiding the propagation of the Coronavirus, Kosmos, the specialist in the digital transformation for education, established emergency measures for assisting high-schools and junior schools in maintaining educational continuity and links with students and families.
  • February 19, 2020
    Kosmos accompanies the presidential visit to Poland
    With the assistance of Business France, Kosmos visited Poland with a French delegation on the occasion of the presidential visit of the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron. During this visit, the Kosmos team had the opportunity to discover the Polish Education in depth by meeting key stakeholders in this sector.
  • January 29, 2020
    Campus Condorcet: a new connected services portal in public access
    Campus Condorcet chose Kosmos for the development and installation of its new public and connected services portal. The Kosmos Solutioning teams have known how to meet this great challenge (10 months) by delivering the new portal as of the official opening of the campus.
  • January 23, 2020
    Kosmos reinvents itself to clarify its offer in France and abroad
    Kosmos is developing its identity by creating 3 new brands founded on 3 principles: innovation, adaptability and security. Our desire: to offer upgradable digital solutions, adapted and customised, meeting the new challenges of the educational system.
  • January 22, 2020
    Getting to know Kosmonauts: Gaëtan, UX/UI Designer
    Gaëtan has been a UX/UI designer for three years at Kosmos. He works upstream in the design of web projects and applications. His role is to analyse the needs of users, to propose a user experience, prototypes or models but also to contribute to their graphical integration.
  • November 29, 2019
    You can find our Skolengo teams at BETT 2020!
    Our teams will be present at BETT 2020 which will take place next January 22-25 in London. BETT is a major international exhibition in the field of educational technologies, which receives more than 30,000 visitors every year.
  • September 18, 2019
    Gesmat secures the distribution of 110,000 computers in the Grand Est region.
    Since the beginning of the 2018 school year, the specialist in the digital transformation for education, Kosmos, has assisted the Grand Est region in its ambitious digital education plan: Lycee 4.0.
  • July 15, 2019
    1 year after the arrival of the Mon Bureau Numérique EMS, much positive feedback from users
    In September 2018, a new EMS was deployed in the junior schools and high schools of the Grand Est region: the Mon Bureau Numérique EMS. To assist the change of solutions, the Nancy-Metz Education Board and Kosmos, the publisher of the MBN EMS, have set up several actions.
  • June 17, 2019
    Collaboration with the Lycée Français François Mitterrand in Brasilia: tools for facilitating communication and teaching
    Gérald Compagnon, Nursery school teacher and expert in pedagogical uses for the Lycée Français François Mitterrand in Brasilia, tells us about the deployment of the Kosmos EMS, in place since November 2017. This collaboration for Kosmos, marks the first deployment of its EMS at a distance of more than 8000 km.
  • June 11, 2019
    Learning tracking: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in the service of student success
    With Kosmos Next, its research and innovation programme, Kosmos has chosen to assemble a team of experts to deliberate about various education-related subjects. The goal is to improve student success and build the school of tomorrow based on new technologies and the immense field of possibilities that they offer.
  • May 27, 2019
    Focus on blockchain technology: certified and secure, dematerialised diplomas
    Digital certification constitutes an important step in the digital transformation of higher education and its ecosystem. In order to offer always more innovative solutions to its clients, Kosmos, a member of EdTech, supports start-ups in the education sector.
  • March 26, 2019
    Kosmos has participated in the 7th edition of Sommet du numérique pour l’éducation in Montreal
    Sommet du numérique pour l’éducation [Summit on Digital Education] took place on April 25 and 26, 2019 in Montreal. The Kosmos teams were present to allow you to discover the global, modular Skolengo solution.
  • March 12, 2018
    The ULB on its way to the “Digital University”
    To ensure the rework of its public websites, the installation of its intranet and a course catalogue, the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) chose Kosmos. This decision was based on the dual technical and professional expertise of the Kosmos Solutioning team and its experience in implementing large scale projects. By signing this contract with a major University situated in the heart of Europe, Kosmos continues its development internationally.
  • January 15, 2018
    Troyes Technical University: user experience at the heart of the digital university
    The Kosmos Solutioning teams have designed and produced all of the internet sites for the Troyes Technical University (UTT). To conclude this project, Kosmos placed user experience at the heart of the design by adopting a “design thinking” approach.
  • October 31, 2017
    University of Nantes The presentation of the educational offering at the heart of the digital university
    For more than 50 years, the University of Nantes has provided education at the highest level. Its campus is a crossroads of knowledge. At the core of the University of Nantes’ digital strategy, the presentation of its course catalogue is a major challenge. This is why the university decided to design an innovative tool for presenting its courses, in collaboration with consultants from the Kosmos company. Two other schools, the Université Catholique de Lyon and the Institut Catholique de Paris, also participated in the design of this digital service.