1. PORTUGAL B RIEF P RESENTATION March 2015 Mafalda Leónidas

2. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is a Portuguese private institution of public utility, created in 1956, according to the last will of its Founder. Has a perpetual character and its purposes are Charity-Based, Artistic, Educational and Scientific. The activity of the Foundation, according to the statutes, is not necessarily limited to Portugal. 2

3. FOCUS AREAS ARTS Museums, Music, Reflection and Contemporary Creativity EDUCATION Empowering Next Generations, Education for Culture and Science, Fostering Portuguese Language and Culture, Gulbenkian Grants SCIENCE Innovating in Health, Educating for Culture and Science, the Gulbenkian Science Institute DEVELOPMENT Development Partnerships, Human Development, the Movement for Employment GLOBAL INITIATIVES Armenian Communites, Oceans, Cities 3

4. HOW WE WORK 4 Projects and Programmes organized by the Foundation Grants and Scholarships awarded to External Initiatives National and International Scale

5. EMPOWERING NEXT GENERATIONS AXE 1 New Knowledge, New Skills AXE 2 Innovation in Teaching and Learning AXE 3 Science for the Young AXE 4 Reflection on Educational and Scientific Topics 5

6. EMPOWERING NEXT GENERATIONS FOCUS ON THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES A - Early Childhood Development (0 – 3 years) B - Promote Educational Success from Pre-K to Higher Education C - Use of ICT in the Learning Process D - Rationalization of Training Supply in Higher Education E - Start-up of E-books Edition in the Gulbenkian Press F - Conferences and Meetings on Scientific and Educational Matters 6

7. 7 PROMOTING EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS FROM PRE-K TO HIGH EDUCATION Projects focused in school initiatives Partnerships with local community – parents, families, municipalities, enterprises, NGOs, etc. Develop educational equity Create conditions to the development of the gifted students

8. PROMOTING EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS FROM PRE-K TO HIGH EDUCATION Stimulus for Learning Improvement (EMA) Promotion of Changes in learning  new knowledges, new skills  relevant training  reinforce the schools autonomy  diversity of the training  there’s no one-size-fits-all aproach TEA – Tablets on learning and education - training of teachers and other educators Create educational materials – Science Portal Project and Open Lessons Project Reinforcement of the arts education (pre-K and primary school) 8

9. 9 PROMOTING EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS FROM PRE-K TO HIGH EDUCATION Integrate essential technical and vocational skills into the curriculum; introduce cognitive,social and communication skills as well as skills related to personal and ethical behaviour. Guarantee that students acquire the ability to analyse and solve problems; relate to one another and work together as a team; read, write and deal with information; capacity to acquire new knowledge, learn from experience and remain open to innovation; guaranting the capacity to adopt appropriate personal, social and professional attitudes and values and showing the ability to make correct judgements and take decisions. These transformations imply changes in the training of teachers and...

10. USE OF THE ICT IN THE LEARNING PROCESS Use in the classroom and outside Flipped Classrooms Focus in teacher training Partnership with European Schoolnet (Brussels) – Future Classroom Lab Use of digital educational materials Evaluation of the results 10

11. Monitoring and Evaluation - Monitoring Comitee -Regular submission of reports drawn up by the schools -Field visits -External evaluation -Final report at the end of the project -Field visit 1 or 2 years after the end of the Foundations’ support 11

12. THANK YOU March 2015 Mafalda Leónidas