1st International Seminar: Educational Innovation: why, for what, how?

RIMED – Network for Innovation and Improvement in Education, an initiative of the Manuel Leão Foundation, with the support of the Municipality of Porto, launched the 1st International Seminar on Educational Innovation on 21 November 2024, which took place in the auditorium of the Almeida Garrett Municipal Library in Porto.
In a world undergoing such rapid change, schools are faced with profound socio-cultural challenges. These include the educational potential of new technologies and the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence, as well as the addition of social networks and screens and the new need for mediation in the face of such constant and rapid floods of information. Education policies and schools all over the world are trying to react and find their place, rebuilding the current sense of education. The ‘school crisis’ represents, first and foremost, this incessant search for meaning, a path that is proving to be fundamental for teachers, students and parents, as well as for public education policies themselves.
Educational innovation is therefore at the forefront of political and cultural concerns: what to change and what to keep? How to innovate within such a complex system? Why, what for and how? Involving whom and how? The Manuel Leão Foundation and Oporto City Council are at the forefront of this journey and have decided to set up moments for meetings, reflection, exchange of experiences and the production of thought on educational innovation.