Find out how Ava uses open data for the development of digital study & vocational guidance to scale up, aid, & relieve human counselors in Swedish in elementary & high schools.

2. 1 problem - 2 perspectives:
- For the individual
• A growing number of educational paths
creates more difficult circumstances for
students to take informed and well
considered choices about their professional
future
• There are 487/students per study- and
vocational counselor in Swedish high
schools and the average personal
counseling time per year is 30 min
• Students need to individually map personal
traits, priorities and ambitions and match
them to a jungle of information about
educations and professions

3. 1 problem - 2 perspectives:
- For society
• The cost for municipalities when students change
high school programs is on average annually SEK
2.3 billion
• At the national level, one in four students will
drop out of high school or fail to graduate with
full grades. Every other one of them will end up
in exclusion, where the long term consequential
costs is estimated to be SEK 260 billion
• In the long term, lack of guidance and thoughtful
educational choices creates dissatisfaction, lock-
ups and consequential problems in the labor
market. In Sweden, 6/10 wants to change
occupation in the first half of 2020

4. Solution
Idea
• Use new technology and open data for
the development of digital study and
vocational guidance to scale up, aid and
relieve human counselors in Swedish
elementary and high schools
• Create a neutral and unbiased guiding
tool solely for the student in a medium
they are comfortable with - the mobile
phone
• Neatly combine the simplification of
administrative processes with explanations
of the education- and labor market and
self-explorative coaching

5. Ava systematizes and
simplifies complex
administrative processes like
mapping current eligibility,
planning of grades,
comparison of admission
statistics and merit groups
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6. Ava visualizes specific educational
paths to achieve a given goal. The
user is provided with schools,
programs, courses, qualifications and
grades required in their specific
situation to achieve an educational or
vocational objective. As well as what
conditions in terms of demand,
salary, development opportunities
and tasks the individual can expect if
the goal is reached
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7. Ava digitally provides proven coaching
methods (ex. MBTI, RIASEC ). In an
interactive questionnaire, users are
helped to identify characteristics,
priorities, interests and values that play
a major role in the matching process
with appropriate study and career
paths. The outcome is visualized in a
profile which is continuously matched
with appropriate educational and
vocational opportunities.
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8. “Ava solves a fundamental problem in labor market - and
in life. What are you really good at? What do you really
enjoy doing? It digitizes and democratized the best
possible career counselling. Ava asks the hard questions
and helps you reflect. That is what creates driven citizens
for citizen driven innovation. Ava is flexible, it can evolve
independently and it is realistically scalable. Ava is the
most sci-fi idea we heard, but it actually works - we tried”
- Motivation for winning labour market category

9. Ava was
born
H4S Job
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Graduation Registered businessDevelopment
THE STORY

10. http://www.ava-co.se/
http://www.framtidenssyv.se/
fred@avachat.se