Agrega

Among the actions included in the Internet in the classroom project, red.es, together with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce (hereinafter "MITYC"), and the CCAAs (the autonomous communities and the autonomous cities, hereinafter "CC.AA.") are undertaking actions with the objective of supporting integration of technologies in education, destined to learning centres financed with public funds under the general non-university regimen and special regimes like teacher training centres and professor training university programmes.

Agrega’s objective is to facilitate for the educational community a useful tool to integrate information and communication technology in the classroom. You could access any content, from any place, using a variety of search criteria.

The characteristics of the Project are as follows:

• It is a global initiative of common interest between Red.es, the Ministry of Education, and the CC.AA. that is centred on contents and sharing common criteria for their cataloguing, essential aspects to foment a sustainable model for the creation and application of digital contents to the teaching and learning process in the classroom, as well as to foment the development of an academic digital content production industry online.
• The project aims to unite efforts in the creation and application of academic digital content online that have been under development by public administrations and the private sector, and to establish the bases to help the participation of both in the generalisation of the use of the aforementioned contents in the classrooms of the Spanish educational system.
• The project is directed to members of the educational community with special emphasis on the teachers and students in non-university levels without specialist knowledge of technology.
• La definition of the project makes its integration possible with the various initiatives that have been taken by the various CC.AA in this area for greater efficiency of the use of public resources.

Advanced plan 2006-2010
The Avanza Plan 2006-2010 for the development of Information Society and convergence with Europe and between the Autonomous Communities and Regions (hereinafter "Plan Avanza"), approved by the Council of Ministers of 4 November 2005, is included in the strategic framework of the National Reform Programme designed by the government to comply with the Lisbon strategy. Concretely, the Plan Avanza is part of the strategic fomenting programme for R&D&I (Research, Development, and Innovation) undertaken by the government in its Programa Igenio 2010.

The Plan Avanza is structured in five action areas.

• Home and inclusion of citizens: the most important challenge in this area is to make citizens benefit from the advantages of the using the Internet and information and communication technologies (hereinafter "TIC"). To this end, the measures enacted guarantee the inclusion of the entire population, easing access and disseminating services of the new technologies to improve quality of life, information, and participation of the citizen in his or her community.
• Competitivity and Innovation: this action area concerns the measures to foment development of TICs in Spain and in their adoption by SMSEs.
• Education in the digital age: aims to incorporate TICs in the educational process and include all participating agents.
• Digital Public Services: to achieve a fully developed Electronic Administration is a key objective of Plan Avanza. The achievement of this objective directly applies to the rest of the plan’s objectives.
• Digital Context: the existence of a safe broadband infrastructure, the digital age, and the availability of an offer of adequate contents online are the elements that establish the new digital context, as they are the necessary catalysts for the development of the Information Society.

The Plan Avanza (www.planavanza.es) is oriented toward achieving the correct use of TICs to contribute to the success of an economic growth model based on the increase of competitiveness and productivity, the promotion of social and regional equality and the improvement of the well-being and quality of life of citizens.

The programme Internet in the Classroom falls under the area 'Education in the Digital Age'

Red.es The public business entity red.es, part of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism, and Commerce through the State Secretariate of Telecommunications has the remit of contributing to the development of telecommunications and the information society in our country.

The functions of red.es have been legally attributed to it by article 55 of Law 14/2000, of 29 December, which modified the Sixth Additional Measure of Law 11/1998, of 24 April on Telecommunications declared in Vigour by the Substitution Measure of the General Telecommunications Law 32/2003 of 3 November.

Licence The Digital Educational Objects have been carried out within the framework of the Classroom Internet Programme. This programme has been developed and carried out by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, the public business entity Red.es, the Ministry of Education, Social Policy and the Departments of Education in the different Spanish Autonomous Communities. The digital educational materials developed within the framework of the Classroom Internet programme, can be used and adapted in the terms of the licence Reconocimiento-No comercial-Compartir Igual España of Creative Commons.