CANDENA is a platform and solutions provider specialized in enabling enterprises to launch and run collaborative online learning events. We design ingenious academic concepts for collaborative online learning together with our network of prestigious academic partners. Our courses run on the candena platform, a fully managed white-label solution for collaborative online learning on top of which we provide professional services in content production, tutoring, and marketing. Our courses are designed to enable collaboration and team work, peer learning mentorship and they employ a problem-based approach.

1. 5 Highlights of 2014
Dear friends,
Another eventful year has passed and we’re grateful for the support you’ve shown
candena. Together with you, our cherished clients, partners and collaborators,
we’ve had a prolific 2014 on our journey of bringing collaborative online learning to
corporate training and recruiting. With this selection of highlights we’d like to express
our gratitude to all who made them possible. Thank you for being part of our story!
Sincerely,
Alexander Jahn,
CEO candena
2. Corporate innovation course for
Deutsche Telekom AG
➜ In 2014, candena produced and ran the first corporate
mentored online course for Deutsche Telekom AG.
➜ 3,600 Telekom employees worldwide engaged in online
teamwork and learned about entrepreneurship in order
to improve the company‘s innovation culture.
www.telekom.com/magenta-mooc
1. Strategic partnership with
Leuphana University
➜ candena’s platform became the high-tech backbone
behind Leuphana Digital School which
offers unique mentored open online courses.
➜ Leuphana and candena started a cooperation to offer
courses for the corporate sector which are
customized, mentored and can be fully accredited.
candena is a platform and solutions provider specialized in enabling enterprises to launch and run collaborative online learning events.
We design course concepts together with our network of prestigious academic partners, we run online learning events on the candena
platform and we provide professional services in content production, tutoring, and marketing.
„ The enthusiastic response from participants, the
impressive output of the virtual teams, who were
spread across different countries, and the fact that 72%
of participants remained actively engaged with the
course right up to the end, shows that MOOCs can be
an intelligent supplement in the field of
corporate learning.“
Birgit Klesper, Senior VP at Telekom
About us
Alexander Jahn,
CEO candena

2. 4. candena teams up with the MIT Media
Lab and the Kenup Network
➜ This year we joined the Kenup consortium, a network
of 50+ world-class institutions that use their collective
power to shape the future of ageing societies in Europe.
➜ In this initiative we teamed up with the MIT Media Lab,
the World Health Organisation (WHO), McKinsey and
APAX Partners to devise a european digital university.
3.The European Union teaches Lifelong
Learning skills with candena
➜ candena hosted LLLight‘n‘Europe’s 3-month collaborative
learning event for young professionals, geared towards
developing problem solving skills in innovation.
➜ Professors and experts from Zeppelin University, MIT
Media Lab, Harvard Business School and SAP among
others, participated in this unique event.
5. candena receives “Innovationsförderung”
of the EU and the state of Lower Saxony
➜ candena’s innovative online learning platform won an
innovation grant put forth by the European Union and the
German state of Lower Saxony.
➜ This funding was invested in the development of candena
Professional, a cutting-edge platform and set of solutions
for corporate learning.
And exciting things are ahead of us in 2015...
We’re proud to be kicking off 2015 with an exemplary
learning event for Goethe-Institut, the market leader
in German Language Instruction!
To find out more about this and other projects visit our
website at www.candena.com.
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