Who are we?
Our institution
About SUMMA
We are the first Research and Innovation Laboratory in Education for Latin America and the Caribbean. We were created in 2016 by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with the support of the Ministries of Education in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. Since 2018, the Ministries of Guatemala, Honduras and Panama have also joined us. Somos una organización regional sin fines de lucro.
SUMMA works across the region and has a permanent presence in Chile (head office), Argentina, Honduras, and Canada. The Board of Directors is made up of distinguished experts, former ministers of education and academics from ten countries in the region. Our professional team is made up of 8 nationalities. It is multidisciplinary (economists, sociologists, teachers, political scientists, lawyers, engineers, communicators, among others), highly qualified (80% have master’s degrees and approximately one third have PhDs) and experienced (from governments, academia, NGOs, and international organizations), which allows us to promote cutting-edge initiatives with a diverse and multicultural perspective. Actualmente trabajamos con actores e instituciones de más de 20 países de la región, con socios estratégicos de cuatro continentes (Europa, América, Asia y Oceanía).
Our mission
Our mission is to promote social justice by promoting the right to education, with special attention to the most disadvantaged and historically excluded groups in society.
We seek to increase the quality, equity and inclusion of educational systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, supporting the improvement of decision-making processes, both in structural policies and in pedagogical practices in schools.
We improve decision-making in education, through the generation, synthesis, adaptation, diffusion and transfer of innovation, knowledge and quality evidence, through collaborative networks, advice and joint work with the ministries of education, school communities, and actors key players in the region, such as those dedicated to research and innovation and civil society.
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