The Empieza Por Educar (ExE) foundation has been working for 13 years so that students’ social and economic background will stop dictating whether they succeed or fail in their education, as it believes that education should bridge social differences, not widen them. With this goal in mind, the ExE Programme has been created, which seeks to offer two years of training to young people who stand out in their various disciplines, going beyond a strictly educational sense, and who are firmly committed and extremely talented and wish to make a change in the educational and social worlds, by fostering their development as effective teachers and educational leaders.

Sabadell EduTalento is a professional development programme aimed at young people and professionals aspiring to change education and society to help provide equal opportunities for all children. It aims to find three young talented people who are committed to educational and social transformation in Sabadell, in order to promote equal opportunities. The young participants, who are trained in leadership and teaching skills by ExE, join two highly complex schools in Sabadell and during two years they work closely with other educators and members of the school community to improve the academic achievement of the students, always with the support from an ExE tutor, while concurrently working to complete their Master’s degree in teacher training for secondary education.