How to contribute to educational success?

The prevailing organisational and pedagocical formulas are not guaranteeing all people access to quality education, exposing a considerable section of the population to the risk of social exclusion.

The current extent of school failure, with a state average of 24.9% in the academic year 2010-2011, imposes the need to find educational innovations that respond to these priority areas of interest:

• Pedagogical methods based on 21st century competencies such as problem-solving, critical thinking or continuous explorative and collaborative learning.
• Integration of educational environments (formal and informal) and agents (family, school, social community ...) to develop learning beyond the classroom.
• Support for the sectors most vulnerable to the risk of school failure, such as children and teenagers from families with low socio-economic status, or the school population with learning disorders.
• Involvement in the learning process, through motivating educational activities that generate a positive link with the sphere of education.
• Promotion of educational continuity and transition and the return to education, particularly in relation to early school leaving.

We also emphasise two premises to be taken into consideration in assessing the initiatives we are are looking for:

1. Proposals that are related to, or that strengthen or complement, the school and family work are more efficient.
2. Initiatives that involve and integrate the different educational areas and agents, generating learning ecosystems, have a more sustainable impact.