Educational Innovations Laboratory LAB-ED SUMMA
Its objective is to identify innovative solutions to address the main educational gaps in the region. At the same time, it seeks to strengthen and model educational innovation processes in the region, aimed at guaranteeing the right to education and reducing educational inequalities.
What is it?
SUMMA’s Educational Innovations Laboratory, created in 2020 in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), is a model for promoting regional educational innovation. By searching for, identifying, and supporting innovative educational initiatives, the model aims to generate, first, rigorous evidence that can be disseminated in the region. Secondly, the model aims to scale the innovations that achieve the greatest impact on the quality and equity of learning, in alliance and coordination with the Ministries of Education of the region. In order to achieve the proposed objectives, the Laboratory has a cycle of five annual stages: 1) definition of the regional agenda; 2) regional open competition; 3) support and accompaniment; 4) evaluation and dissemination of knowledge; and 5) support for scaling up.
Project objectives
1
To identify and promote the growth of educational innovations through the delivery of differentiated support, according to their stage of development.
2
To generate knowledge from new evaluations, and support practices that show higher levels of effectiveness in priority issues in the region.
3
To seek appropriation mechanisms by institutions and Ministries of Education that support the replicability and scalability of educational innovations identified by the model.
Impact on society
Generation of a model to promote educational innovation as a regional public good.
Identification of educational innovations that are effective in the promotion of the right to education, and educational quality and equity in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Delivery of five awards and differentiated support for promising innovations, in order to improve their intervention models.
Rigorous evaluation of innovations with high potential impact on improving quality and equity of learning.
Dissemination and promotion of scaling-up processes of innovations with positive results and proven impact.
Contribution to public policies through new ideas and models in coordination with the Ministries of Education in the region.
The calls numbers
2
Concursos de innovación realizados para la justicia educativa.
21
Países postulantes de Latinoamérica.
103
Iniciativas postuladas.
9
Innovaciones reconocidas.
66
Innovaciones prometedoras.
63%
de las solicitudes fueron presentadas por instituciones privadas sin ánimo de lucro.
18%
fueron presentadas por instituciones privadas con ánimo de lucro.
19%
de las innovaciones aplicadas fueron plataformas digitales de aprendizaje.
Discover the winning initiatives in the 1st Call for Educational Justice Innovation in Central America and the Caribbean
These are the Cometa Project of the Sembrando Juntos Association (Peru); TaRL remedial courses in rural contexts of the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS – Mexico); and Cambiando la Metáfora: uso del juego crítico of the Pontificia Universidad Católica (Chile).
Discover the winning initiatives in the 2nd Call for Innovation for Educational Justice in Central America and the Caribbean
In the second edition, the initiatives recognized were Promoting Gender Equality in Schools by On Continue! (St. Lucia, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines); Conecta Aprende by the Zamora Terán Foundation (Honduras); the Leadership Program of the Zamora Teran Foundation (Honduras) Grenadines); Conecta Aprende of the Zamora Terán Foundation (Honduras); the Bay Island Educators Leadership Program of Partners in Education Roatan (Honduras); and Fortaleciendo habilidades en el aprender of Fundación Pedagógica de Cooperación Genuina (Nicaragua).
Watch the seminar “Lab-Ed SUMMA: promoting education for Educational Justice”.
With the successful application of 25 initiatives from 10 LAC countries in the 2nd Call for Innovation for Educational Justice in Central America and the Caribbean, the seminar “Lab-Ed SUMMA: promoting education for Educational Justice” was held, in which the 4 winning innovations of this second edition were recognized.
The call organized by SUMMA and OECS through KIX LAC, with the support of IDRC Canada, awarded each innovation the sum of $10,000 dollars for its implementation and technical support with a workshop on theory of change and on the sustainability plan.
Our outstanding initiatives
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