ES - Instituto de Formación del Profesorado, Investigación e Innovación Educativa- IFIIE

CIDREE representative:
Mr. Eduardo Coba Arango, Director

The Institute for Teacher Training and Educational Research and Innovation (IFIIE) is a ministerial body depending upon the Directorate General for Vocational Education and Training (Ministry of Education). It may be considered as a unit for generating knowledge on education, working for the Spanish education system through the Ministry of Education.

• IFIIE’s specific mission is to mediate between the knowledge on education and the decision-making, especially from the State’s educational administration, but also from the educational administrations in the Autonomous Communities or from schools, as well as from supranational administrations.
   
   ACTION GUIDELINES
   
  The following training, research and innovation actions are IFIIE’s priorities:
   Design and development of teacher training plans.
   Improving teachers’ language skills.
   Approving, advising and assessing the Regional Teacher Training Plans for Ceuta and Melilla (where the Ministry of Education and not the Autonomous Communities is responsible for education).
   Promoting meetings of teachers from all around Spain through different training activities, in order to exchange experiences and good practices.
   Approving and developing training plans for Education Departments abroad.
   Promoting the scientific and didactic update of teachers teaching every type of provision regulated by the LOE (Act on Education).
   Managing financial aids for non-profit organizations, as well as individual aids for teachers to attend training activities.
  Registering and certifying all training activities programmed and coordinated by the IFIIE and by the institutions of the Education Departments abroad, as well as other training actions organized by non-profit organizations.
   Revision, approval and monitoring of the training plans developed by the collaborating institutions.
    Spanish Qualifications Framework (MECU).
   Training in the knowledge society.
   Inclusive education and intercultural education (CREADE).
   Early school-leaving.
   Management of the Spanish Unit of the EURYDICE Network.
   Studies on the education system.
   Education and Gender: INTERCAMBIA.
   Basic skills.
   Media Education (MEDIASCOPIO).
   Health Education.
   Combined schooling.
   LACM Spain-Morocco Programme.
   Didactic innovation for technical and scientific pathways.
   National Educational Research and Innovation Prizes/ Contests for studies on the Ministry’s strategic subjects.
   
   
   
  IFIIE’s actions are carried out within the framework of its various specific missions, linked to three working areas.
  The specific mission of being a referent for teachers’ professional development through their training, providing solutions to new changes and demands requiring the achievement of the education system’s strategic objectives is specifically linked to the Teacher Training Area.
  The mission of mediating between the knowledge generated by educational research and the decision-making, i.e., the link between two different activity fields like research and politics (in a broad sense), especially policies emerging from the State’s educational administration, is specifically related to the Studies and Educational Research Area.
   
  The mission of transferring educational knowledge, necessary for launching educational processes and tools which are fundamental for achieving the education system’s strategic objectives is linked to the Innovation Programmes Area.