First CRiEDO Award goes to the Tarlatana School for developing its project in a highly complex environment

According to the jury, the Tarlatana School stands out for “promoting a live education linked to improving social cohesion and educational results".

The jury awarded the 1st CRiEDO Award in Innovation and Development of Educational and Training Centres to the Tarlatana School, located in Sabadell's Can Puiggener neighbourhood, for its “well-founded pedagogic project, in continuous improvement and conducted with the educational community in a highly complex environment”.

The award acknowledges the good educational tasks of this early childhood and primary education centre, as well as the effects the "Escoles Vives" — of which this school is a member — are creating within the Catalan education system, helping “to establish learning methods that are creative, holistic, significant and more respective with people and the social and natural environments, with a high local impact and greatly dedicated to working with vulnerable groups”. Thus, according to the jury, the Tarlatana School stands out for its “promotion of a live education linked to improvements in social cohesion and educational results".

In addition to the Tarlatana School's directive team, an honourable mention was given to the European Forum of Education Administrators of Catalonia for their “more than 35 years in promoting and developing educational administration and management processes, as well as for their national and international projection”.

The jury was formed by Núria Mora Lorente, Secretary General of Educational Transofrmation of the Government of Catalonia; Marta Bertrán Tarrés, Dean of the Faculty of Education; Gemma París Romia, member of the CRiEDO Executive Committee; Joaquín Gairín Sallán, Director of CRiEDO; Diego Castro Ceacero, Director of the Department of Applied Pedagogy.

The first edition of these awards was celebrated as part of the inauguration of the Centre for Research and Studies on Organisational Development (CRiEDO), which took place on Thursday 10 November at the UAB. The centre includes the experience and trajectory of the groups of researchers from EDO, who have over 30 years of experience in the field. This academic institution is devoted to the analysis and development of training and educational organisations. Attending the inauguration were Vice Rector for Quality Tatiana Rovira Faixa, CRiEDO Director Joaquín Gairín Sallán, and Secretary General of Educational Transformation of the Government of Catalonia Núria Mora Lorente.

In the event, international expert on educational leadership Beatriz Pont Ferrer, from the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, gave a conference on leading the educational change. A debate was also held on educational leadership and the role of training, which included the participation of Secretary General Núria Mora Lorente and other experts in this field.

Leading Research Centre in Educational Organisation

The mission of the Centre for Research and Studies for Organisational Development (CRiEDO) is to study, investigate, teach and conduct any other activity related to the organisational development of training centres. The centre concentrates a network of over 200 local and international organisations with which it works closely together to analyse the processes involved in the management of training centres. It has conducted international projects which have received recognition for their high quality by the European Union, such as the ORACLE and UrBIOfuture projects, and it has also been acknowledged by the Editorial Comares publishing house as one of the research centres with the greatest social impact at Ibero-American level. Lecturers who are members of the centre have been awarded the Vicenç Vives Award for Quality Teaching.

For more information please visit: Centre for Research and Studies of Organisational Development (CRiEDO).