More than 11,200 students from 15 educational centers in Melilla benefit from the PROA+ Educational Orientation, Advancement and Enrichment Program, funded by the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports.
The Director General of Evaluation and Territorial Cooperation, Mónica Domínguez, visited the autonomous city where she held yesterday a meeting with the directors and coordinators PROA+, whom she congratulated for their “great work and effort”.
“It is essential that you, who are the managers of the centers, can express your concerns and ideas in order to improve this program,” said Domínguez. “It is time to evaluate this first phase and it is essential that we can design a four-year plan for the new PROA+,” he added.
A few weeks ago, the Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, Pilar Alegría, announced, precisely on her visit to Melilla for the inauguration of the CEIP ‘Encarna León’, the continuity of PROA+ until 2028 with an investment of 105 million euros per course (426 million in total), from the European Social Fund Plus.
The meeting, held at the IES Leopoldo Queipo, has been framed in a follow-up conference of the PROA+ program in Melilla, in which PROA+ directors and coordinators participate, as well as educational inspectors of the city.
The General Director, accompanied by the Delegate of the Government in the city, Sabrina Moh, the Provincial Director of the MEFPyD in Melilla, Juan Ángel Berbel, and the Deputy Director of Territorial Cooperation and Educational Innovation, Francisco Javier Amaya, have also visited two educational centers involved in this program.
The CEIP Juan Caro Romero, with 830 students, and the CEIP Encarna León, inaugurated last April, with 310 boys and girls.
Since its recovery in 2021, the MEFPyD has invested 360 million euros in PROA+, which implements about 3,700 centers around the country. More than one million students participate annually in this reinforcement program aimed at improving the educational results of students with more difficulties and reducing early dropout rates.