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Transcriber: Youssef Mubarak Reviewer: Michael Nystrom Hey, I’m Menno. I sometimes feel like my life started at my university induction week. I made friends for life, I founded my company, and I met my wife. My biggest passion is to bring people from education level A to education level B. But there seems to be an incredible problem with that, especially in the Netherlands, but also in the European countries surrounding us. What we see is massive dropout numbers. I even have clients which lose about 70% of their first-year students. The reason for these dropouts is various. First of all, we have the national systems, for example, the financial aid for students. Second of all, we have the institute factors. Perhaps they don’t offer flexible studying or they lack study support. And last but not least, we have the individual factors, right? For example, motivation of the students, or perhaps the socioeconomic backgrounds. And I’ve been thinking, what can we do to increase retention?