Estela Souza, Director of Lumiar Institute, is based in England. She graduated in Physics and Modern Languages, has taken a specialization course in Information and Culture and holds an MPhil in Business Administration in the area of Learning. Estela has devoted herself to actively investigating lifelong learning and competencies development.

 

In the past fifteen years, she has been studying this phenomenon in different contexts. She headed the project of one of the Lumiar pilot Schools in Brazil’s countryside. Estela is currently working on the establishment of an international partnership, Synapses, recently launched in London with the participation of Futurelab, Microsoft and Lumiar, having Ideaslab and OECD as invited members. This initiative aims to create a scalable and sustainable methodology and respective tools to make the innovative positive transformation in schools available.

 

Website: www.lumiar.org/eng