Higher education can build the capabilities this century needs. Since 2016 we have worked with institutions across Latin America and the Caribbean that choose to adapt, evolve and lead change - from within, with proven methodologies and real connection to the world.
Trusted by universities in Latin America and Europe
The map of Erasmus+, Horizon Europe and foundations for your institution, with the module built for higher education in LAC.
10% discount for partner institutions.
Book for €4804 sessions in one month to bring sustainable finance to your classroom or your team. 5 previous editions with Uniandes and ColCapital.
Explore the courseFrom the 2-hour masterclass to 16-40 hour educator training: AI connected to your institution’s transformation agenda.
See the AI formatsWhat we do is the same; the starting point depends on you.
Research, internationalisation and community engagement, connected to European funding.
We have worked with:
Typical starting point: EU Fundraising Workshop and Erasmus+ / Horizon support.
Let's talk as a universityTechnical training for the transition to a sustainable industry, with verifiable micro-credentials.
We have worked with:
Typical starting point: industry-focused educator training and micro-credentials.
Let's talk as a TVET institutionCo-designed courses and diplomas that open new audiences and new revenue streams.
We have worked with:
Typical starting point: co-branded or white-label continuing education.
Let's talk as a graduate schoolWe believe in institutions capable of connecting learning, innovation and real impact. Everything we do fits in three movements: each one works on its own; together they transform.
European funding and internationalisation
Implementing partner of Erasmus+ and EU co-funded projects, not just an advisor.
Real transformation happens in educators, not in curricula.
600+ educators certified over a decade, in 5 languages.
Strategy, programmes and alliances
Commons with Ashoka: 8 editions, 160+ academics, 40+ HEIs.
AI is already in your classrooms, your management and your research. We connect it to the transformation agenda your institution already has.
It runs across the three movements: most AI offerings in the region teach a tool. We use AI to transform how your institution learns and operates. AI replaces the part of education that was never meant to be the centre - memorising - and raises the value of what we build: systems thinking, collaboration, judgement. Below is the teaching and research route. The leadership route has its own programme, with a price and a cohort.
2 hours, expert-led, for academic staff
16-40 hours: AI in the classroom, course design, assessment
3-4 months, higher education level, hybrid
The leadership route: 8 hours across 4 weeks, three seminars and an implementation project. USD 1,200 for up to 3 people.
See the programmeAI applied to Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe proposals
Which one fits your institution?
Tell us where you are and we will send you a quote for the right AI workshop or programme.
Get a quote for an AI workshopYou do not need to decide the full transformation today. Choose the horizon that fits your institutional moment.
EU Fundraising Workshop: 90 minutes online, up to 3 people, with the module for higher education in LAC (Erasmus+, Horizon, CBHE).
10% discount for partner institutions. The fastest way to know if 2811 is your partner.
Book for €480Educator training, a course from the catalogue, an ideas competition or your first European application with grant writing. Contained scope, visible results.
Request a proposalAnnual agreement: institutional accelerator, living labs, one Climathon per year and priority in the Erasmus+ and Horizon consortia where 2811 takes part.
For institutions that want long-term transformation, not one-off events.
Let's talkCatalogue for institutions
Proven programmes, ready to run at your institution online, hybrid or in person. Quoted per cohort.
25 programmes
The map of Erasmus+, Horizon Europe, CBHE, Erasmus Mundus and the LAC-EU regional windows, applied to your institution in a single session.
Built for higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean, not adapted to it
How capital moves toward impact: philanthropy, climate funds, blended finance and impact measurement, with the Latin American ecosystem as the case.
5 editions with Universidad de los Andes and ColCapital
Gender equity, diversity and inclusion for university communities. Self-paced, trilingual, with a verifiable digital certificate.
Co-funded by the European Union · Labs 4 Change with Mondragon Unibertsitatea
A four-week executive programme for the leadership of higher education institutions. Six modules, three expert-led virtual seminars, and an artificial intelligence implementation project for the institution or for one specific area.
Concludes with an implementation project presented to peers and mentors
The ocean economy is hiring for skills no curriculum teaches yet. This certificate prepares the teacher: coastal literacy, where the blue jobs are, and how to turn a stretch of coast into classroom work students can actually do.
Private workshop on European public and private funding for deep-tech ventures, tailored to the portfolio your institution already supports.
Built around your own portfolio of startups
Three live online workshops to move from scattered international activity to a strategy with targets, owners and a budget, plus the funding pipeline that pays for it.
AI applied to teaching: course design, assessment and academic integrity, in technical and university institutions. From a two-hour masterclass to a full academic staff development programme.
The programme that taught us how to teach climate: facts, stories and lesson plans so climate action reaches the classroom and stays there.
10+ editions in 5 languages and 7 countries · 500+ certified educators
Strategies to bring sustainability into teaching practice, because the transformation of an institution happens through the people who teach.
A full course to start ventures that hold up economically while contributing to adaptation and mitigation in their own territory.
Intensive month on nature-based solutions, the policy that enables them and the regenerative cities already applying them.
Two editions with DAAD, in English
How a city is actually governed: planning instruments, land, mobility, public services and municipal finance, worked through cases from Latin American cities rather than models imported from elsewhere.
Coastal and port cities that plan with the water instead of against it: waterfronts, flood and sea level risk, the port as neighbour, artisanal fishing and coastal public space.
How to map, convene and sustain an innovation ecosystem in a region that is not the capital: who is already there, what governance holds it together, where the money comes from and what the regional government can actually do.
Run with CORFO across 7 regions of Chile and in the Aysén ecosystem
Local governments, communities and students co-create solutions to a climate challenge that is theirs, in one intensive stretch.
6 editions · 4,350+ people activated across Chile, Colombia and the United States
The Climathon format pointed at the ocean: team building, ideation and pitch on a coastal or marine challenge of your territory.
Our longest-running programme. Teams of faculty, staff and leadership build the social innovation strategy of their own institution, with the network as the method.
8 editions since 2016 · 160+ participants · 40+ institutions · with Ashoka U
The entry point: expanding social innovation knowledge among faculty and students so ideas actually land inside and outside the classroom.
The full cycle of empathy, ideation, prototyping and validation, applied to a local challenge that the institution already carries.
Adds the systems change lens to the toolbox: seeing the structure behind a social problem instead of only its symptoms.
A full academic semester in which health students and professionals take an active role in the wellbeing of the populations they serve.
With Ashoka, Tec de Monterrey and Universidad de los Andes
How institutions integrate the Sustainable Development Goals and turn community engagement into something they can measure and report.
Case studies and strategies to build cities that are safe and equitable by design, not by correction afterwards.
Conceptual bases and practical tools to design social innovation projects that do not reproduce the inequality they set out to solve.
No programme matches those two filters. Try widening one of them.
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Funding, mobility and scholarships for researchers, with the deadline in plain sight. Updated daily.
We believe in a higher education capable of responding to this century's challenges with imagination, collaboration and action.
This century's challenges call for new capabilities, new alliances and new ways of teaching. Institutions that transform today open new opportunities for their entire community.
Value now lives in judgement, community, networks and the capacity to act. And that is exactly what an institution can offer better than anyone.
Solar panels and recycling are a start. The next step is curricular: forming people with the language of transition and regenerative economics.
Every institution is living the ecological and the technological transition at once. We work on them as one, instead of competing for the same attention.
This transformation is already under way. We have spent a decade working on it: 100+ universities, 600+ certified educators, 12,000+ students, 40+ HEIs in network.
One of the largest higher education networks in Chile placed social innovation at the core of its strategic plan: 104 educators and 80 senior leaders trained, collaborative spaces in 4 regions and its own diploma programme.
Read the story → Climate Labs, Erasmus+Ten universities across Mexico, Colombia and Brazil set up climate innovation labs together with partners from France, Italy and Spain, co-funded by the European Commission.
Read the story → LAC - Europe150 vocational educators in Colombia and Chile co-design micro-credentials with partners from Germany and Spain in the EU-LATAM Food System Academy.
Read the story → Commons, since 2016The social innovation accelerator for higher education we built with Ashoka: 8 editions and a network of 160+ academics from 40+ institutions that keep meeting.
Read the story →What case is possible at your institution?
Let's talkEvery programme, gathering and collaboration is also a gateway to a global community transforming education and climate action.
Cumulative figures from a decade of programmes with institutions across three continents.
Universidad de Talca, Instituto Nacional de Capacitación Profesional (INACAP), Instituto Profesional Santo Tomás, Instituto Profesional AIEP, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Universidad de Aysén, Duoc UC, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Universidad Católica del Norte
Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes), Universidad EAN, Universidad de Caldas, Universidad del Pacífico, Universidad de Antioquia, Universidad del Rosario (Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario), Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (UNIMINUTO)
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Tecnológico de Monterrey), Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM), Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY), Universidad La Salle
Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)
Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), Universidad del Pacífico
Erasmus+ partners in Spain, Germany and Portugal, plus other university and research partners linked to Erasmus+ projects across Europe
All institutions we have worked with receive preferential pricing on our programmes and workshops.
Companies, foundations and philanthropy co-fund entire cohorts for a group they choose. You define who it reaches, we design and run the programme.
Fund a cohort for one specific region. You set the geography, including the places where nobody else is training anyone.
Young people, school teachers, women-led ventures, coastal communities. The programme adjusts to whoever will receive it.
Sponsor individual places inside an open cohort. One place is one more person ready for the transition.
Interested in co-funding the next cohort?
Tell us who you want to reach and with what budget. We come back with a proposal within 5 working days.
We bring the content, the methodology and the platform. The visible face is yours. It is how we work with institutions that already have their own school or internal academy.
The programme runs under your identity, or under both signatures. Certificates are issued by your institution.
Every example, template and exercise is rewritten with cases from your industry and your country.
We train your own facilitators so that the second edition is one you run yourselves.
Universities · Banks and companies · Foundations · Governments · Technical training centres · International organisations
Tell us where you are starting from and we will propose the movement and horizon that fit your institutional moment. No strings attached: we reply within 48 hours.
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