ProFuturo

What is ProFuturo? ProFuturo is an education programme launched in 2016 by Telefónica Foundation and “La Caixa” Foundation, whose mission is to narrow the education gap in the world by providing quality digital education for children in vulnerable environments in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. In line with Goal 4 of the United Nations’ 2030 sustainable development agenda on access to equitable and inclusive quality education for all, ProFuturo aspires to become a world reference for transformation and innovation in education, improving the education of millions of children through technology. The hallmarks of ProFuturo, one of the largest digital education initiatives in the world, are quality, sustainability over time, and access to all corners of the world, whether in urban, rural or remote areas or conflict zones. To achieve this, its education solution can be adapted to any environment and context both with and without an Internet connection. The ultimate aim is to deliver the best education to 10 million children in vulnerable areas by 2020, and to 25 million by 2030. This proposal has a universal vocation and incorporates, in an interrelated way, technologies, educational resources and teaching-learning methodologies designed to empower teachers and provide students with training in skills and competences for their personal and professional future. ProFuturo has been an educational laboratory from the start, offering an innovative, personalized and flexible education proposal based on the accumulated experience of Fundación Telefónica, which for over ten years has been working on social intervention programs with children in vulnerable environments in Latin America. Since 2012, 3.8 million children have benefited from the Telefónica Foundation’s projects, mainly in Latin America. ProFuturo, in collaboration with “La Caixa” Banking Foundation, reached a total of 5.8 million child beneficiaries by the end of 2017. ProFuturo is a universal education programme built on robust partnerships. ProFuturo seeks agreements with local agents to implement the program in each country, as well as with international companies, institutions and agents who support the initiative on a grand scale. ProFuturo opens the door to institutions, organizations or companies –public or private– who want to join the initiative, with the aim of recruiting the cooperation of an ever greater number of entities each year to work toward improving education in vulnerable areas. ProFuturo has signed partnership agreements with over 60 local, national and international partners. Our challenge To close the education gap in the world through quality digital education FOR 10 MILLION CHILDREN BY 2020 AND 25 MILLION BY 2030 Through a digital and integral educational solution that combines both teaching and learning methods, modular and adapted to each environment and context, ProFuturo focuses its efforts on ensuring that teachers have good training and the best tools to provide quality education to children in vulnerable areas and thus close the education gap worldwide.