“CaféLab” from Colombia; “Ecofusion” from Uruguay and “Pedagogía Sin Límites” from Ecuador were recognized as the most innovative educational projects in Ibero-America to promote the 2030 Agenda.
This Monday, the Organization of Ibero-American States of Education, Science and Culture (OEI), in collaboration with the Spanish Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sport, announced the winners of the second edition of the Prize.Innovation and the SDGs in educational centers” in an event at the OEI headquarters that was streamed.
The project received first place in the award CaféLab, Developed by the Municipal Montessori Educational Institution – San Francisco Headquarters, located in the rural area of Pitalito, Huila, in the coffee heart of Colombia. The project, which will benefit nearly 400 students and 530 families from this rural community, aims to use the waste generated by large-scale coffee production in the region to promote entrepreneurship and thus reduce pollution and promote contribute to a better environment. healthier .
After a phase of contextualization and fieldwork involving teachers and students, entrepreneurial ideas or prototypes are developed, the main basis of which is solid and liquid coffee waste. The result was prototypes of products as diverse as aromatic beverages, natural herbicides, bioplastics, electrical energy, briquettes, artwork, soap and even household goods.
The second prize went ex aequo to two projects. The first of them, Ecofusiondeveloped by the Education Center for Training, Art and Production of Mines, Uruguay, promotes environmental awareness by reusing plastic to produce fabrics currently used to make dresses and garments of the municipal dance and music company (Murga). The project has encouraged active community participation, including teachers, neighbors and local businesses.
On his part Pedagogy without borderslaunched by the educational unit 26 de Febrero of Azuay, Ecuadoris a project that promotes weekly specialist content in pedagogy and education in television format, becoming the first free educational program to use television and social networks to support the educational system of this country on current issues. With an agile style, international guests and the active support of the center’s students, the program achieved a total of 64,000 views on Facebook in the 2023 season alone.
This year the prize jury awarded special mentions to the projects Task lifefrom the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y del Castillo school in Cienfuegos, Cuba; Advanced mobility, of the Center Integrat Públic de Formació Professional de Canastell de Sant Vicent del Raspeig, Spain; Eco-school awarenessfrom the glass school of the village of El Porvenir del Norte, HondurasAnd We are agents of changefrom the San Martín de Socabaya School, Arequipa, Peru.
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More than 200 candidates from 14 Ibero-American countries
More than 200 projects from 14 Ibero-American countries competed this year for the prize, which for the second year in a row recognizes the efforts of schools in the region to promote the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda in an original way. In this edition of the prize, first place is endowed with 10,000 euros, and each of the projects in second place receives 5,000 euros.
For Tamara Diaz, As Director General of Education and Training of the OEI, the Prize recognized the quality and geographical representation of the projects participating in this edition of the Prize, in which “educational centers were the protagonists in a complex and challenging context”. They are “real examples of improvement”.
On his part Francisco Javier Amaya FloresDeputy Director General for Territorial Cooperation and Educational Innovation of the Spanish Ministry, has highlighted the work of teachers who “take time, in addition to the curricular activities, to develop these innovative projects with patience and enthusiasm”, while highlighting the implementation of this award together with that OEI as a commitment to work on concrete actions “in a community to which we also belong”.
This award is presented within the framework of the initiatives that the OEI launches within the framework of the Ibero-American Network for Educational Innovation and Research, launched in 2022 together with the Spanish Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, in which they are involved in promoting activities , which brings innovation and the development of Ibero-American educational systems to the center of the classroom.