Two major Spanish institutions, Telefónica Foundation and “la Caixa” Foundation, joined their forces and their experience, both in in the field of education and child care, to create ProFuturo under the belief that digital education is a extremely powerful tool to improve the quality of education worldwide and a great mean to reach the most vulnerable.
ProFuturo combines educational digital resources for primary school children -accessible through an open source LMS- with teacher training, educational assistance and technical support, and a monitoring and evaluation system to measure and assess the impact of the programme. If needed, ProFuturo also provides schools with technological equipment.
ProFuturo relies on innovative teaching methodologies with which seek to help teachers and students develop skills to face the challenges of the 21st century.
ProFuturo adapts its work to the different contexts and has 3 main intervention models: a Comprehensive Model, that addresses key elements to achieve educational quality; a Humanitarian Context Model, adapted to educational needs in emergency contexts; and a Massive Open Digital Education Model that offers open educational content, accessible online, and virtual or in-person teacher training courses.
ProFuturo considers schools as its units of intervention and teachers and school managers as the leaders of transformation. The programme works therefore at the “micro” level and has a bottom-up approach (being this the only way to promote transformation in countries where the capacity, outreach and resources of public administrations are limited).
The programme has also a “meso” level intervention, as it operates at a significant scale and in very diverse environments, aiming to demonstrate that, by fulfilling a series of hypotheses, and taking them to scale, educational transformation, trough digital means, takes place.
From 2016 to 2023 the ProFuturo programme has impacted directly the education of 4,3 million children and trained 1,6 million teachers.
ProFuturo´s Educational Resources for students and teacher training courses are available, for free, on its website: https://profuturo.education/en/resources-teachers/
The other "componets" of the programme can be seen by visiting a school.
