The imperative of increasing our productivity and competitiveness in the current global market has cause that the word education takes a new meaning.  With the purpose of promoting a new approach of teaching that favors scientific development between children in the primary education, FUMEC created in 2002 Innovation on Science Education (INNOVEC).

In close collaboration with INNOVEC, the Foundation promotes the adoption of inquiry based science education programs (IBSE) within the basic level of education in Mexico. IBSE programs serve as tools to improve science teaching and contribute to the goal of providing children an education that corresponds to what is needed in the current knowledge society.

IBSE programs use the natural curiosity of children and build on it develop reasoning and learning abilities in the students, make use of their wit, curiosity, persistence and, above, all, develop their sensibility and respect toward living beings and the environment.

IBSE programs take as reference the model developed by the U.S. National Science Resources Center in terms of curriculum, materials, assessment and the community support of these programs.

Since INNOVEC’s inception the use of IBSE in Mexico has been consolidated thanks to the support of the Mexican Ministry of Education (SEP), the state governments, universities, companies and private institutions that have joined efforts to promote science education.

In the last years, IBSE programs have been successfully implemented in ten Mexican states: Coahuila, Chihuahua, Estado de México, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Jalisco, Tlaxcala, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas and Veracruz with a coverage of 331,500 students.