This is a project designed and managed by the Educational School of St. Andrew’s University and supported by the Georges and Jorge Born Educational Program and other organizations. The project aims to strengthen schools whose populations are categorized as high-risk in social terms in order to help improve the quality of teaching, and set up an installed capacity in each school, as well as create tools that can be replicated in other schools.

This project has been financed thanks to a donation by the HSBC Guyerzeller bank, and has been underway for a year and half. It involves applying the SFP (Schools of the Future Project) methodology at the School No. 26 of San Isidro and now, for the first time, at pre-school level (three kindergardens in San Isidro, Beccar and Pilar).

This is a 3-day training course provided to teachers about the importance of playing and the creative process, which the Bunge y Born Foundation has been providing since 1995 and one which is much-sought after by schools in Greater Buenos Aires, for whom the course was designed.
The program is aimed at facilitating the use of games and play as a teaching resource and at providing a games library for each school taking part, as well as at stimulating teachers to take full advantage of these resources with their pupils.

The seminar, which is sponsored by the General Directorate of Schools of the Province of Buenos Aires, was audited in 2007 by an external consultancy, which evaluated it as extremely efficient in achieving its objectives.

The Georgetown University Latin American Board and the Georges and Jorge Born Award Program of the Bunge y Born Foundation invite young leaders to apply for their two scholarship grants for the “Leadership for Competitiveness” program held at the University of Georgetown, Washington D.C., during the first semester of the academic year. The 13-week leadership track is aimed at strengthening the capabilities of a new generation of Ibero-American leaders in order to promote competitiveness, progress and the international integration of Latin America.

Information on this competition will be available as from August 2008.

Aimed at public or privately-managed farming and animal husbandry colleges, or those specializing in the agro-foods industry, this is an innovative project which involves the selection of 12 colleges from all over Argentina in order to train their head-teachers and other teaching staff. The purpose is to set up an Educational Quality Management System (SGCE in Spanish) in order to receive the ISO9001:2000 certification for each college taking part.

The Alfredo Hirsch Project for Education in Farming and Animal Husbandry is a 4-year program. The first year covers training and assessment while the second takes the college up to certification. Once this has been achieved, there are two further obligatory years of maintenance required by the ISO standards. This period allows for all the assessment, training, transport and accommodation expenses to be covered for the teachers and heads from the schools selected, as well as the fees and costs of the certification body.

Through this project, the Bunge y Born Foundation ensures that the heads and teachers of these colleges receive training in the basics of Quality and Quality Management Systems. The long-term goal is that each certified college be a multiplier of the “quality philosophy” and generate an employment network based on ISO standards among all the colleges taking part.
Undoubtedly, a college’s positioning, image and own efficiency will be greatly improved with the certification of an Educational Quality Management System to international standards, with the corresponding benefits for both teachers and students.