UP Academe
Learn through UP if you learn — for the joy of a subject, for your own growth, or to build something real with what you learn, alongside people doing the same. Free to every member.
57,044 members are in a course right now · 65,000 courses & pathways · 860,000 completions this year
Your Academe today
Sponsor curriculum · your cohort of 31
KPIs module — tonight 20:00
Session brief: bring one KPI you'd retire and why. The module feeds your Stage-gate practice next month.
17:00
MentorMatch drop-in
Open to every member
20:00
Sponsor curriculum — KPIs
Learning & Education
New this week: Evidence packs at Stage D — The verification method behind the record's 74% — templates included.
Learning that finishes
57%
of members who start a cohort with their Circle complete it. Elsewhere, most self-paced online courses are abandoned by week two — the median finish rate is about 13%.
The difference isn't the content — it's the company. Cohorts here are drawn from Circles you already belong to, taught in the same appreciative register as everything else on UP, with people who'll notice if you drift. You don't join a course and hope a community forms; you bring your community with you.
860,000 courses completed across UP this year — finishing is the norm here, not the exception.
Your plan, your pace
Pathways start from your THRIVE Plan, not from a catalogue page. NAVi adapts each one to how you learn — in your language, at your level, skipping what you know — and when it's a person you need, MentorMatch finds you one. Curiosity counts here: learning for the love of it is as welcome as learning for a role.
Sponsor curriculum
60%
Your Learning goal · Reading Buddies
Next: KPIs — tonight 20:00
Music theory — grade 3
35%
Just for you · no Project, no point to prove
Next: Intervals — Thursday, your pace
The catalogue — taught by members, institutions and UP
65,000 courses & pathways
26,400
Members teach
Members with a craft to share — a course in anything they've mastered, free or paid, their choice.
37,400
Institutions teach
BrandedCircles bring whole bodies of teaching — university curricula, professional accreditation, corporate capability programmes.
1,200
UP-branded
Foundational pathways and certifications across all fifteen domains — much of it free or subsidised, as a matter of mission.
Access is free for every member and the free floor never closes — free and subsidised courses are always here. Where a course is paid, that's the teacher's choice, on both sides of supply; fees help fund the plan for the Age of Thriving by 2035.
A taste of the shelves
Sponsor curriculum
UP-branded · Learning & Education
KPIs, the funding ladder, Ladders of Feedback — the working method behind the record's 74%.
Music theory — grade 3
Taught by a member · Arts Culture & Entertainment
For the love of the subject. It doesn't have to point anywhere to count.
Urban food-systems design
University BrandedCircle
Twelve weeks, accredited — the supplier sets the price; UP keeps the floor free.
Facilitating with ACE
UP-branded · certification
The learning is free; the credential carries a fee only if you want the recognition.
Four of 65,000 — NAVi curates the rest to your THRIVE Plan, your language, your level.
Recognition that travels
6 credentials — yours, verifiable, portable
Verifiable, portable, yours — visible when you propose a Project, quotable when a Marketplace listing asks.
Asked for in Marketplaces right now: Systems Leadership · Impact Measurement ·
And it adds up
Every completion earns UP Points (+40 a course), badges mark the milestones, and certain certifications unlock real roles — finish the Sponsor curriculum and you're eligible to lead a Project, not just to say you could.
When you want it — learning becomes real work
yours to take, never required — learning for its own sake is a complete use of UP
Learn
Sponsor curriculum
with your cohort — the method behind the work
Build
a real Project
peer-endorsed and sponsored in your Circle — not a capstone simulation
Fund
11 days
median to first capital — crowdfunding to the funding ladder
On the record
74% verified
outcomes audited, not asserted
A certificate elsewhere decorates a CV. Here, what you learn can walk straight into a Project your Circle endorses and the platform helps fund — one continuous path, if and when you choose it.
Your learning is yours. UP never sells member data — the Academe earns your attention by being worth it. The full Academe opens with the live platform.