The EDUCA EDTECH Foundation’s Advisory Committee on Academic Innovation met again recently for a working session which, on this occasion, featured a new development: the appointment of Enrique Cortés de Abajo as a new member of the Committee.
A place to look further afield
The Committee is one of the Foundation’s strategic pillars. It comprises a group of people from different sectors, with decades of experience – marked by both successes and failures – who come together not to rubber-stamp decisions but to ask better questions.
A group comprising Isidoro González Gallego, Florencio Vicente Castro, Miguel A. Martí Escolano, Aitor Curiel, Viridiana López, Rafael García-Parrado and David Santos – individuals from very different backgrounds who, precisely for that reason, make us better. Meeting after meeting, their judgement and experience are what drive the Foundation to make more considered and purposeful decisions.
Welcome, Enrique
At this most recent meeting, the Committee was expanded to include a new member who brings a fresh and much-needed perspective: Enrique Cortés de Abajo, co-founder of SKR, School of Governance and Public Transformation, and Senior Strategic Adviser to the Lottus Education Group.
Enrique has decades of experience in governance, institutional transformation and education. He is someone who knows first-hand what it means to build something from scratch, make difficult decisions and think for the long term.
His arrival is not merely a new addition to the Committee. It is a sign of the direction in which the EDUCA EDTECH Foundation wishes to continue growing: by surrounding itself with diverse experience, different perspectives, and people who do not come to provide easy answers but to help formulate the right questions.
What we are building
During the session, the Committee made progress on new lines of research focused on the future of education and its social impact, as well as on the development of forthcoming strategic content, including the 2026 White Paper. This work seeks not only to analyse current developments, but also to anticipate the direction in which learning should evolve in the coming years.
Among the key points raised during the event, Aitor Curiel brought up an issue that the Foundation cannot ignore: the role of ethics in the advancement of artificial intelligence applied to education. In his speech, he emphasised that not all AI tools are suitable for every context or every user, and that responsibility in their use must be at the heart of any educational initiative. This was a call for the EDUCA EDTECH Foundation to continue playing an active role in promoting AI that is responsible, ethical and designed with people in mind.
Meetings like this are what shape the Foundation’s direction. Because real impact cannot be improvised. It is built over time, through listening, with sound judgement, and with the right people around the table.
We’re still building.
