In accordance with the commitments of the ECALFOR project on obtaining results, preparation of academic products and their international dissemination, the academic reports derived from the different studies, analyzes and proposals made by the research groups are presented in the Products section. project work during its first two years of life (2020-2022). These reports are subject to copyright, have an ISBN and, therefore, their authors are the legitimate intellectual owners of their contents.
The Resources section lists the video tutorials (MOOC) resulting from the project, together with explanatory documents of the contents of these videos.
The ECALFOR project -“Evaluation of teacher training in Latin America and the Caribbean. Guarantee of the quality of education titles”, code 618625-EPP-1-2020-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP / has been granted by the European Commission in 2020, in the Erasmus+ Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange program of Good Practices, Action Capacity Building in Higher Education, to be developed over three years (January 2021 to January 2024) with funding of 965,045.36 euros.
20 public and private institutions related to the world of education and quality assessment participate in ECALFOR, especially Higher Education, from six countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Panama and Dominican Republic) and four EU countries (Spain, Italy, France and Finland). Within this broad consortium, the project is carried out by more than 100 educational quality academics and technicians, with a series of objectives that are related to common premises established in the European Higher Education Area in relation to the structure and operation of training. university and diversity and autonomy of Higher Education Institutions, in which quality assurance is determined by the protocols and instruments used by each institution in the evaluation of indicators and results of the quality of university education, in this case the compulsory education teachers.
ECALFOR intends to generalize the accumulated European experience in quality assurance mechanisms and procedures to be transferred, adapted and contextualized to the associated project countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, from a collaborative, horizontal and transnational work that articulates the following objectives:
1. Carry out a diagnosis on the quality of the training of teachers of compulsory education (primary education and secondary education) that is taught in different institutions of higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean.
2. Design, apply and improve the quality assurance systems and protocols for university qualifications for compulsory education teacher training.
3. Carry out an analysis of the characteristics and quality of the training of future teachers of compulsory education centers in primary education and secondary education in Latin America and the Caribbean.
4. Adapt quality assurance protocols for teacher training degrees in higher education institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.
oswaldo lorenzo
ECALFOR General Coordinator
Ana Lendinez
ECALFOR Technical Assistant
