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The Sharing Academy project introduces an innovative educational platform designed to formalize peer-to-peer tutoring among university students. Instead of relying on traditional bulletin boards to find private teachers, which often lack reliable quality indicators, Sharing Academy connects students who have successfully passed a subject with those needing help. Tutors set their availability, price, and location, while the platform ensures trust through identity verification, academic certificates, and alumni recommendations. Initially focused on university students, the platform has expanded to include secondary education levels like ESO and Baccalaureate, partnering with Abacus Cooperativa to broaden its reach. The project also promotes itself through initiatives like the #ApruébaloTodo tour, visiting 20 Spanish universities.
Since its inception, Sharing Academy has collaborated with 53 Spanish universities, connecting over 2,000 students with peer tutors. Beyond facilitating academic support, the platform aims to improve education access by offering scholarships, funded by the Ramón Molinas Foundation, to students unable to afford private lessons. The project has received multiple accolades, including global recognition at the Mobile World Congress and awards for collaborative innovation. By fostering a network of compensated, reliable peer tutors, Sharing Academy not only enhances learning outcomes but also creates opportunities for students to earn income through teaching.
What the Sharing Academy educational project proposes is that your private teachers are classmates who master the subject
Who hasn’t helped (or received) help at some point in that matter that you were so good at or so bad? Among colleagues, it is common to help each other in an informal and punctual way. Why not formalize it and make it something regular and with compensation in return? This is what the Sharing Academy educational project proposes: that your private teachers are classmates who have passed the subject and know it well.
It is an educational platform that proposes to innovate reinforcement classes. Some learn, others receive extra income, and they all weave networks of collaboration. This is the proposal of Jordi Llonch, creator of the platform.
“The dilemma of university students who fail an exam or subject is how to find a good private teacher to help them pass. Bulletin boards are the tool that has been used all our lives, but they have many shortcomings, as they fail to reliably determine the quality, experience and reputation of those who are advertised,” explains Llonch. Hence, he decided to found Sharing Academy, to organize that offer easily and quickly.
How Sharing Academy works
Students who have already passed a subject can give private lessons − setting their availability of schedule, price and place − to all those who need to pass it, taking into account identity validation, academic certificates and evaluations and recommendations from alumni as trusted filters.
Although the educational platform is initially aimed at university students, this year it extends its operations to ESO and Baccalaureate. They do so with the help of Abacus Cooperativa, a distributor of educational services. Another of its novelties is the #ApruébaloTodo tour: a tour to present the project in 20 Spanish universities.
Impact of Sharing Academy
The Sharing Academy platform works with 53 Spanish universities. In two years it has connected more than 2,000 students with teachers, according to Llonch. The young man stresses that his purpose goes further: “
In addition, Sharing Academy has accumulated several awards, such as the first world prize for collaborative city in the Smart City App Hack, the first prize for Ideas Meeting Point (Caja de Ingenieros) or the ‘Best application in the world’ at the Mobile Premier Awards of the Mobile World Congress 2016.
