In November 2024, we are launching the second call of the mSchools Lab to identify innovative digital solutions at national and international level to answer the challenge:

How can technology enhance inclusive learning from the initial school stages?

Technological innovation to enable early detection, timely intervention, and socio-emotional support to foster students’ personal and academic growth.

The need to refocus and expand the education system’s efforts to improve students’ academic performance has become evident in recent years. This requires personalized strategies to address specific learning difficulties at their root. Biological and psychoeducational conditions often lead to neurodevelopmental challenges affecting areas such as attention, concentration, behavior, reading, writing, and math. These difficulties significantly impact academic success, social integration, and emotional well-being.

Considering this context, this call seeks to identify and pilot innovative digital solutions— nationally and internationally—that enable early detection,  timely intervention and socio-emotional support to create an educational and social environment that allows students to overcome barriers and thrive academically and personally.

How can technology enhance inclusive learning from the initial school stages?

Technological innovation to enable early detection, timely intervention, and socio-emotional support to foster students’ personal and academic growth.

Discover the new mSchools Awards

We strongly believe in change from the classroom. That’s why we want to recognise initiatives that contribute to empowering teachers and students through transformative educational practices.

Discover this year call new features: two ways to participate that recognise educational proposals that contribute to improving social challenges through digital tools and resources.

You can participate in 2 modalities:

• Contest modality: awards for proposals from the mSchools programme with a renewed character.
• Open Call modality: awards for innovative proposals with emerging technologies.

Contact: contact@mschools.com

Collaboration

mSchools Lab is an open innovation program promoted by Mobile World Capital Barcelona Foundation and mSchools. Its goal is to foster collaboration between educational centres and the EdTech industry to respond to the educational communities’ real needs through technology’s transformative, safe and healthy use. 

Through public-private partnerships, we advance the identification, piloting and impact evaluation of digital solutions with the potential to contribute to improving and digitally transforming education. 

We want to catalyze the collaboration of all stakeholders with the possibility to contribute from different perspectives to digitally transform and positively impact equitable and inclusive learning.

Promoters

mSchools Lab is an initiative promoted by Mobile World Capital Barcelona Foundation and mSchools.

In December 2023 we launched the first call to identify innovative digital solutions at national and international levels to answer the challenge:

How can technology contribute to motivation, personalised learning approaches, and academic success?

In recent years, society has changed profoundly and rapidly, and this has not necessarily shown in the practices and content of educational institutions.

In 2022, with 13.9%, Spain topped the early school dropout rates in the European Union, which went hand in hand with poor academic performance. Experts partly attribute this failure to the Spanish education system’s absence of flexibility and excessive rigidity. Within schools, learning paths tend to be uniform to comply with a single curriculum for all and do not respond to diverse and personal contexts, interests or objectives.

Educational success and learning are correlated, among other factors, with motivation. Motivation increases, for example, through personalised learning approaches or if learnings are meaningful and provide personal value to the learner, contributing to their self-knowledge, a better understanding of their reality and the active construction of a future with scenarios that involve them and enhance their capabilities.

Evaluation process

The first evaluation round to identify innovative digital solutions contributing to motivation, personalization of learning, and academic success concluded with 16 semi-finalists. Based on additional information about the future pilot’s implementation in schools, six finalists were selected to present their initiative at the Pitch Day at the end of March. 

An external jury of representatives from Academia, Public Administration, the EdTech Industry and Educational Centers selected both winning proposals, “Annie Advisor” and “Troba la insignia per al teu futur”, which will be adapted and piloted within the 2024-25 school year in public and charter schools in Catalonia.

Piloting in Educational Centers in Catalonia

Once the two winning proposals were selected, work sessions were initiated with the chosen schools to plan the scope of the projects and ensure a successful implementation for both parties.

The pilots began in 10 public and semi-private schools in Catalonia and will be implemented throughout the 2024-2025 school year.

Beyond a rigorous evaluation of the impact of the pilots, we will share the learnings and conclusions that may be of interest to the entire educational community.

Schools involved in the pilots 

These are the schools piloting the winning solutions:

Objectives and phases of the pilots

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If you want more information about the mSchools Lab call, follow the process closely, or are interested in participating in future pilots in schools, sign up now through the following form.

For any questions, feel free to contact us by sending an email to lab@mschools.com