2015 Call – FSED Digital Inclusion: Education with New Horizons
Institutions/Research team
On the 15th July 2015, Ceibal Foundation along with the National Agency for Research and Innovation Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación -ANII- launched the first modality of the Education Sector Fund for funding research projects in education and technology, which complied with one or more strategic research lines.
Project background and objectives
The modality “Digital Inclusion: Education with New Horizons” was created for promoting evidence-based research in order to inform Ceibal Plan and other educational institutions actions’ in the field of education and technology -both inside and outside the formal educational system-. Research proposals were required to comply with one or more of Foundation’s strategic lines of research. Futhermore, research design should contemplate the epistemological approaches identified as priorities (learning analytics, foresight, benchmarking).
Strategic lines of research:
Funding amounts:
On the basis of their duration, selected projects will be provided with the following non-repayable funds:
1. Up to UYU 795,000 (seven hundred and ninety-five thousand Uruguayan pesos), 80% of the total cost of the project, for projects lasting up to 6 months.
2. Up to UYU 1,060,000 (one million sixty thousand Uruguayan pesos), 80% of the total cost of the project, for projects lasting up to 18 months.
The minimum part to be contributed by the beneficiary institutions will be 20% of the investment planned in the project.
Additional information and materials
The evaluation and selection procedures were conducted from the 7th October to the 21st December 2015. 12 projects were selected out of the 34 that were submitted by national and international institutions.
Access the following link for more information about the selected projects in 2015