Neus Lorenzo

Learning as a Way of Life

For Neus Lorenzo, learning is a way of living. That phrase is not a statement of principles — it is an accurate description of her path. From a young age, she combined two degrees — Teaching and History — with night work and family life. And not out of ambition, but out of pure fascination: to know more, to understand better, to share what she had learned.

Her first contact with teaching was as an English teacher, although she also worked as an archaeologist. But it was at the intersection of technology and education that she found her natural ground. In 1985, when educational computing was still in its infancy, she enrolled in the first course available in Catalonia. With a 4K Spectrum, she began a journey that has made her one of the most active voices in pedagogical innovation in the Spanish-speaking world.

Neus Lorenzo has been a primary school teacher, a secondary school teacher, and an education inspector for over twenty years. She has also led projects focused on digital development in schools, teacher training, institutional communication, and educational leadership. She has continuously investigated how knowledge is built in schools and how it evolves when new forms of communication emerge — from email to artificial intelligence.

She is currently Vice President for Research at the Societat Catalana de Pedagogia (Institut d’Estudis Catalans) and a board member of the Observatory for Educational Technological Innovation (ODITE-Espiral).

What drives her remains the same as from the beginning: the need — and the joy — of understanding, connecting ideas, and accompanying others on that journey. She has never stopped studying, or teaching, or being amazed by what is new.