Global Partnerships of Academic Collaboration 2015-2017

As follows a brief description of the main projects in which the Center for Research – Ceibal Foundation is currently collaborating. This is a summary of the 2015-2017 partnerships and academic collaboration being carried out:

1. Name of the Project: Research project of 21st Century Skills

Goal: conducting comparative international research projects on the assessment of the 21st century skills.
Leading institution: Benesse Holding Inc. (Japan), Japan Innovative Schools Network
Participant countries: Japan and Uruguay.

2. Name of the Project: How to measure the impact of digital technologies in educative quality?

Goal: To analyse, exchange and define a common framework of instruments, indicators and standards that contribute to assess the impact of digital technologies in order to improve the quality of education.
Leading institution: UNESCO Regional Bureau of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO).
Partner institutions: Center for Research on Educational Policy and Practice (CEPPE) (Chile),  Javeriana University (Colombia), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (LATAM), Ministry of Education (Perú), Fundación Omar Dengo (Costa Rica), International Institute For Education Planning (IIPE, Argentina),
Participant countries: Chile, Argentina, Costa Rica, Colombia, Perú and Uruguay.
 

3. Name of the Project: Building Tools to Measure the Use of ICTs in Education.
Goal: To create better measurements of the impact of ICT use in schools, in view of influencing government policies that leverage the use of technology to improve education, building consensus on methodologies and indicators to be shared across these countries.
Leading institution: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) from Canada and Foundation to Higher Education and Development (Fundación para la Educación Superior) in Colombia.
Partner institutions: Ministries of Education of Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay.
Participant countries: Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay.
 

4. Name of the Project: 360-Degree Assessment of non-cognitive skills.
Goal: To build, test and share instruments for assessing and monitoring the development of a critical skills. This instrument aims to generate a methodology and rubric needed to evaluate the development of the so-called 21st century skills.
Leading institutions: Center for Research Ceibal Foundation.  
Partner Institutions: Red Global de Aprendizajes Cluster Uruguay, Microsoft Uruguay S.A., Intel Software (Argentina). 

Participant countries: Argentina and Uruguay.
 

5. Research Fund – Digital Inclusion: Education with New Horizons.
Goal: To promote high quality national and international research in themes related to learning and the mediation of technologies, both within and outside the scope of the formal education system.
Partner Institutions: National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII).

6. Name of the Project: Cognition Matters in Uruguay (CMU) Postgraduate Research Funding Programme.
Goal: To provide a post-doc scholarship focus on conducting comparative international research in the field of cognitive neuroscience. The research aims to study the use of XO tablet in the mathematical training and working memory for children.
Leading institution: Cognitive Enhancement Foundation (Sweden).
Participant countries: Sweden and Uruguay