About Edu.Harbour

Edu.Harbour is a social enterprise registered in Germany that creates globally accessible education programs and the technology required to scale them. Our goal is to reduce the operational burden of delivering meaningful education, particularly in STEM fields.

Numbers.

As of 2025, our educational programs and technological systems serve over 58,000 students and 3,500 educators in 82 countries, coordinated through a network of more than 1,600 local associates. These programs include international science competitions, subject-specific learning experiences, and student networking opportunities. Each program is designed to be accessible and scalable, supported by digital management tools and AI-assisted systems (Details ↗). Our participants range from middle & high school students to university-level learners pursuing advanced scientific topics, as well as educators and institutions seeking extracurricular programs.

Mission.

Edu.Harbour's mission is to make high-quality science education available on a global scale while minimizing the administrative and logistical barriers that often stand in the way. We develop tools that simplify assessment, communication, and program coordination so that educators can focus their time and energy on teaching (Details ↗). We work to ensure that students, educators, and institutions worldwide can engage in meaningful learning regardless of available infrastructure. We aim to:

1. Provide science education that encourages problem-solving and critical thinking.
2. Foster and discover talent globally in connected as well as remote regions.
3. Promote international exchange, collaboration, and lasting connections through science.
4. Leverage technology to scale access, reduce barriers, and support educators.

Edu.Harbour is a social enterprise in the sense defined by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus: a self-sustaining organization that uses business tools to solve social problems (Read More ↗). From automating evaluation systems to offering multilingual digital environments, our aim is to enable better accessibility to education. However, contrary to Yunus' definition, we follow the commonly held relaxation that allows dividend payments to investors seeking both social impact and financial returns.

History.

Edu.Harbour began in 2018 with the launch of the International Youth Math Challenge (IYMC ↗), a student-led initiative from Germany designed to provide an globally accessible online mathematics competition from the first round onwards. Following its success, an expanded team launched the International Astronomy and Astrophysics Competition (IAAC ↗) to serve a similar purpose in the natural sciences. These early successes demonstrated a demand for globally accessible programs in science education.

Over the following years, we shifted focus from running individual programs to building the systems that power them. This included the development of AI-based assessment platforms, multilingual student portals, and automation tools to manage thousands of participants efficiently. These management systems have enabled us to successfully scale our existing education programs, improve access to them, and free up resources to develop new initiatives, such as the International Computer Science Competition (ICSC ↗).

The team remains based primarily in Germany, with international collaborators supporting operations and development.

Founders.

The two founders, Rami Aly and Fabian Schneider, share a deep commitment to accessible science education and the belief that technology can be used to empower learners worldwide. Both have an academic background in STEM and experiences in extracurricular learning.

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