- The funds, approved in Sectorial Conference and published today in the BOE, also contemplate actions to cover the needs of attention that the students can show in the fields of emotional well-being and mental health
- In order to compensate for the most unfavourable socio-economic situations, three million euros wax is allocated for the financing of textbooks
July 18, 2023. The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training will allocate 24,640,949 euros to the Region of Murcia for the technological modernization of schools, the financing of textbooks and didactic materials and the promotion of emotional education in classrooms, as well as other programs aimed at the most vulnerable population, as published today by the Official State Gazette.
The BOE details the agreements adopted at the Sectoral Conference on Education of 7 June 2023, which approves the proposal for territorial distribution and the criteria for the distribution of credits managed by autonomous communities for the following programs:
- School Code Program 4.0:
The general objective is to put in place the necessary mechanisms and processes to generalize and facilitate the development of digital skills related to computational thinking and programming to teachers and students of educational centers financed with public funds.
With an investment of 11,714,771.00 euros, the aim is to improve the digital skills of students in computational thinking and programming, the implementation of digital skills related to the same elements, through the training of teachers, and the provision to educational centers of the necessary equipment for the development of these skills.
- Program to finance textbooks and teaching materials
Endowed with €2,967,417.00, this programme aims to establish the necessary cooperation mechanisms between the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training and the Autonomous Communities in order to collaborate with families through aid for the financing of textbooks and teaching materials, trying to promote the principles of equity and equal opportunities to compensate for the most unfavourable socio-economic situations. With these measures, the education system contributes to ensuring equity in education and equal rights and opportunities.
- Emotional Well-Being in Education Program
The program is designed in line with the lines of the National Strategy of Mental Health, in order to help meet the needs of attention that students can show in the fields of emotional well-being and mental health from the perspective of educational intervention. The total aid for the Emotional Well-being in the Educational Field program amounts to 212,610.00 euros in the Region of Murcia.
- Inclusive Education Program
This program includes 1,500,347.00 euros to increase the provision and optimize the organization of specialized resources that attend to the diversity of students, promote early detection and intervention and enhance the central role of families in the initial stages of the educational process.
- Program of support units and personal and family guidance of educatively vulnerable students
The programme, worth €2,518,491.00, is part of budget year 2023, under component 21 ‘Modernisation and digitisation of the education system, including early education 0-3 years’, of the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism (RRM). The Accompaniment Units are proposed as an innovative measure with a specific function: to accompany the educational trajectories of the most vulnerable students in an area or sector to prevent failures and promote their learning and school success, in collaboration with other professionals in the area or sector, from Primary education to the end of ESO and Baccalaureate.
- Territorial cooperation program for guidance, advancement and educational enrichment in centers of special educational complexity (PROA+ program)
The program is intended for schools with special educational complexity, including those located in rural areas or with a significant number of students in a situation of educational vulnerability, who manifest a series of difficulties or obstacles throughout their school trajectory. The objective is to provide resources to the centers that commit to adapt their educational project to the needs of the students, offering an open and stimulating place for learning in which a personalized methodology is reinforced and adapted to the needs of the students to reduce school failure and early school dropout.
The program, with 5,727,313.00 euros for the Region of Murcia, is also part of the budgetary year 2023, within the framework of component 21 “Modernization and digitalization of the educational system, including early education of 0-3 years”, of the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism (MRR).