What is the name of your organization?
Fundación Educacional Proyecto Aprender
What is the name of your solution?
Proyecto Aprender
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
An AI-powered teaching revolution that ignites teacher creativity, reduces planning time, and sparks student curiosity through hands-on learning.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Puerto Varas, Los Lagos, Chile
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
Chile
What type of organization is your solution team?
Nonprofit
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What specific problem are you solving?
Over the last 100 years, everything in the world has changed except education, which continues to rely on the memorization of superficial content. As a result, our students are unmotivated, show very low academic performance, and are not being prepared to face either the present or the future.
These negative effects worsened with the pandemic, further decreasing student engagement and increasing school dropout rates, particularly affecting the most disadvantaged students.
Chile is a highly centralized country, and according to World Bank data (2020), school loss primarily impacted its southern regions, including Los Lagos, and academic results have not recovered since.
Beyond the damage caused by the pandemic, there is an even deeper issue within our system: the lack of tools for teachers to engage students through deep learning experiences that foster creativity and talent.
This problem is further exacerbated by educators' limited proficiency in educational technology. Falling behind in this area, they struggle to reactivate and motivate their students through active, comprehensive education that sparks their passions and interests while preparing them for the future.
What is your solution?
Our solution is an immersive, AI-enhanced program that transforms teaching by empowering educators to design engaging, curiosity-driven learning experiences for students. Through a blended-learning environment, teachers experience firsthand a transformative pedagogy that prioritizes exploration, creativity, and real-world problem-solving, fundamentally shifting their instructional approach. Integrated into this process is FITO, our AI-powered planning assistant, developed using our unique educational approach. FITO supports teachers by optimizing their lesson planning, significantly reducing preparation time, and enhancing instructional creativity and rigor. It acts as a personalized co-pilot, helping educators craft meaningful projects and experiences tailored to their students' needs, sparking genuine curiosity and deeper learning.
This unified solution not only simplifies the daily responsibilities of educators but also profoundly changes the quality and effectiveness of classroom interactions—ultimately fostering an environment where both teachers and students thrive.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Within the universe of 11,000 public schools in Chile, we primarily focus on those categorized as "Insufficient" (schools in danger of being closed). These schools are those who receive the most vulnerable population and achieve the lowest in outcomes such as standardized tests, attendance, graduation, parents' expectations, socio-emotional indexes, among others. These are the reasons why they are the target that most urgently needs to train their teachers to re-engage their students.
We currently serve 5,500 students aged 18 or younger, in the first, second, or third priority of the School Vulnerability Index (IVE-SINAE), from schools in the Los Ríos and Los Lagos regions (south of Chile).
