A comprehensive, customisable and flexible educational programme

In partnership with Empieza Por Educar we’ve launched a professional development project to train teachers on the African continent and, through them, to improve the quality of the education of thousands of children living in vulnerable rural areas. The project succeeded in improving the didactic and pedagogical skills, social leadership and digital competences of 15,400 teachers in 2020, thus making them agents of change in their educational communities. In 2021, in collaboration with the local partners of the Teach for All network, ProFuturo and Empieza Por Educar have set themselves the target of training 13,000 new teachers in six countries: Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

In conjunction with the Pontifical University of Salamanca we organised a virtual get-together for innovative and creative young people from Spain and Latin America to develop advanced technological solutions to the numerous challenges facing digital education after Covid-19: handling personal data, restricted internet access, customisation of learning, selection of content, etc. This is a multidisciplinary, international call with a hybrid format, which seeks to address and solve technological challenges related to the challenges posed by digital education.

The objective of this project is to bring to schools located in vulnerable a framework to develop certain skills that will contribute to equality of opportunity, helping students to develop digital skills, especially programming skills, which will promote computational thinking. In a changing world where technology has an increasingly greater presence in different spheres of our lives, learning the logic of how it works is essential for bridging the existing gaps and promoting critical digital literacy. Moreover, computational thinking allows developing experiential education, which gives students an active role in their learning process and emphasizes investigation, experimentation, invention and reflection, amongst other things.