An education company built around the institutions whose authority defines their fields.
A working note on what we do, how we do it, and the conviction — built over more than a decade — that brought Novi Education into existence.
Authority is the new scarcity.
The market for educational content has been reshaped, almost overnight, by the capacity of artificial intelligence to generate material on virtually any topic, in any language, at scale and at near-zero marginal cost. The competitive question is no longer who can produce — it is who can be trusted.
Novi Education is built on a single conviction: that lasting educational value lies not in the volume of content produced, but in the authority of the institutions behind the learning, and in the rigour of the pedagogy that translates that authority into experience.
We work with institutions whose standing in their field cannot be replicated by any model — space agencies, leading universities, reference hospitals, brands of global cultural significance — and we build the educational programmes that bring their expertise into classrooms, lecture halls and training environments around the world.
This conviction did not emerge overnight. It is the product of more than ten years of work by the founding team — years spent identifying the partners, refining the pedagogical architecture, and building the institutional relationships that the company, incorporated in Singapore in 2024 and operationally led from there, has been founded to operationalise. Our flagship programme, Moonshot, is the result of five years of co-development with Space Center Houston — the visible expression of a model we intend to apply, with the same discipline, across universities, hospitals and other partners of global standing.
The technology we use is consequential, but never the protagonist. Our distinguishing function is the selection of partners, the design of the educational vehicle, and the delivery at the standard our partners require.
Four principles, applied without exception.
Every Novi programme — present and future, in any field, for any audience — is shaped by the same four commitments. They are the standard against which our work is measured.
We choose, we don't synthesise.
Our distinguishing function is the selection of partners whose authority is irreplaceable in their field. We do not produce educational intellectual property in isolation; we identify the institutions whose standing constitutes the value of the programme, and we partner with them under multi-year structures. The architecture of our five-year partnership with Space Center Houston is the prototype of how every Novi programme is conceived — with the partner as the source of authority, and Novi as the company that builds the educational vehicle around it.
Workshop-based, not transmissive.
Our programmes are built on hands-on, workshop-driven learning. Students put knowledge into practice and develop real-life skills in the process. For most schools, adopting a Novi programme represents a new way of teaching — and that newness is part of the value we bring, not a friction to be hidden. The pedagogical signature of every Novi programme is the Workshop Model of instruction: a recognised framework built on three components — mini lesson, workshop, reflection and debrief — that transforms students from passive recipients into critical thinkers and problem solvers.
From primary classroom to operating theatre.
The same operating logic applies across K-12 schools, universities, and professional or clinical training: curate the source of authority, design the pedagogy, build the educational vehicle around it. The audience changes — children, students, practitioners — and so does the depth of content; the model does not. This is what allows a single company to credibly hold a portfolio of programmes spanning education and continuing professional formation.
Designed for systems, not startups.
Every programme is delivered with governance, data protection, and pedagogical accountability designed to meet the standards of ministries of education, hospital boards, and university systems — not the looser conventions of consumer education technology. Compliance with GDPR and local equivalents is foundational, with particular attention to the protection of minors. Our voice, in every interaction, is calibrated to be credible to those who cannot afford to be wrong.
A project, long in the making.
The conviction behind Novi Education predates the company itself. Over more than ten years before its incorporation, the founding team — with backgrounds in international finance, education, technology entrepreneurship and legal counsel — developed the working hypothesis that the rise of generative artificial intelligence would not diminish the demand for high-quality educational programmes, but would relocate the value from the production of content to the authority of the source.
The company was incorporated in Singapore in 2024 — and the choice of jurisdiction is not a holding-company technicality. Co-CEO Valter Spano resides in Singapore and leads the operational dimension of Novi from there, anchoring the company’s institutional gravity in the same jurisdiction in which it is incorporated, and at the centre of the Asian markets where the company’s institutional engagement is most actively expanding.
The first signal that the working hypothesis would hold came in April 2024, with the pre-pilot of Moonshot in Italian private schools. By September of the same year, the programme had moved from private to public, in Italy with the support of regional and national government, and in Austria through an agreement with the Ministry of Education. What followed was a year of refinement: the programme was reengineered with Space Center Houston during summer 2025, the new version launched in Italian elementary and middle schools in September, and in November 2025 Moonshot reached its third continent with the launch in India. The platform-enabled phase, currently in development, will make the programme deliverable at the scale the engagement has already begun to suggest.
PROJECT IN DEVELOPMENT
Since 2014 · over a decade
COMPANY INCORPORATED
Singapore · 2024
ACTIVE IN CLASSROOMS
Italy · Austria · India
A composition of experiences, not a single profile.
The Novi founding team brings together backgrounds in international finance, educational programme design, technology entrepreneurship and legal counsel. The model the company operates is the natural product of those combined experiences — refined over more than a decade of preparation, with operational leadership based in Singapore.
Detailed profiles of the founding team and advisors Francesco De Ferrari, Valter Spano, Shawn Mudigere, Francesco Reza Safavi, Fabrizio Catalano, Anna Juricic are available on the dedicated team page.
One flagship today, a portfolio of distinction.
Novi Education operates on a dual axis. Our active flagship is Moonshot, in K-12 STEM with Space Center Houston. Our pipeline expands the portfolio along two complementary directions — by institution and by theme.
Moonshot, with Space Center Houston.
An experiential, wrap-around STEM curriculum built around the NASA Artemis missions to the Moon — developed with Space Center Houston over five years, and already delivered in classrooms across Italy, Austria and India.
PARTNER
ACTIVE IN
Italy · Austria · India
AUDIENCE
K–12 · all grades
Co-development
Five years · ongoing
The portfolio, by institution and bytheme.
Beyond Moonshot, Novi is in active development on two complementary fronts. The institutional axis identifies the kinds of partners we are building with — leading universities, reference hospitals, brands of global cultural significance. The thematic axis identifies the educational domains we are developing — fields where the structural shortage of preparation, and the cultural urgency, justify dedicated programmes.
Leading universities
In development
Reference hospitals
In development
Iconic global brand
Confidential
Financial education
In development
Wellbeing & mental health
In development
Creativity
Confidential
Each new programme follows the same partnership-driven model that defines Moonshot — with a partner of unquestionable authority at the centre of the educational vehicle.
A global footprint, anchored in Singapore.
Novi Education PTE Ltd is incorporated and operationally led from Singapore. Our programmes operate across multiple geographies, at varying stages of engagement and maturity.
Singapore
The company is incorporated in Singapore as Novi Education PTE Ltd, and Co-CEO Valter Spano resides and operates from Singapore — anchoring institutional leadership in the company’s jurisdiction and at the centre of the Asian markets in which the company’s engagement is most actively expanding.
Active in classrooms
Italy
Pre-pilot in 2 private schools, then public schools with regional and national government support.
Austria
Agreement with the Ministry of Education for 10 public high schools.
India
Launched in 3 elementary schools in November 2025.
Asian markets
Beyond the active geographies, Novi is institutionally engaged with multiple Asian markets as part of its medium-term expansion plan — coordinated from the Singapore headquarters, and in close consultation with Space Center Houston on the appropriate scheduling and modality of rollout for each region.