A step forward in the activation of the regional EdugalIA project, with which Galicia hopes to be at the forefront of the use of artificial intelligence in the educational field. The Council of Xunta authorized this Tuesday, as a preliminary step to its implementation, the … processing of the market file “for the development, evaluation and acquisition of technological solutions linked” to this initiative, intended to “prevent school dropout” and improve educational management using AI in various ways.
Concretely, explained the Galician President, Alfonso Rueda, during the press conference following the meeting, EdugalIA is structured in three axes, starting with the establishment of a “single digital student file”, which will be a novelty throughout the State. According to Rueda, Galicia will be a “pioneer” in becoming the first autonomous community to have a complete digitized academic file, similar to what already exists in the health field with the clinical file. The idea is that the document accompanies the student throughout their journey in the Galician education system.
Another pillar will be an intelligent platform that integrates the academic information of all students and all centers and “will allow us to alert, through AI, about the possible risk of school dropouts, to know what factors affect it and to be able to act, to detect which centers need more resources because they have more school dropouts, to see the causes… trying to reduce the percentages”, explained the head of the Xunta.
This platform will also include an information and assistance space to facilitate common procedures such as scholarship applications, registration or other administrative procedures. An AI-based assistant will guide families and students through these processes, in order to streamline procedures and improve accessibility to the education system. In total, Rueda emphasized, with EdugalIA, the Xunta aspires to combine technological innovation and equity to address one of the main educational challenges: reducing early dropout and strengthening attention to the most vulnerable students.
The investment approved this Tuesday amounts to 13.5 million euros, out of the total of 16.6 million which will be devoted to the project. Of these, Xunta contributes 6.6% and the remaining 10 will correspond to 60% of the financing through the European Feder funds established by the innovative public procurement line of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, for which the initiative was selected, as well as “many” other proposals from Galicia. In this sense, Rueda welcomed the fact that the Galician community is the “most beneficiary” community when it comes to accessing help from this line.
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