The XXII Constitutional Government of Portugal, in the Government's Programme for the four-year term of 2019-2023, established as one of its priorities the investment in people, fighting inequalities, promoting qualifications and skills for all, in a society that demands for digital transition in order to adress the present and future challenges.

In the field of education and training, this priority involves providing conditions of equal access and opportunities to access education and training, in particular through:

• Invest in public schooling as a response to social inequalities;

• Promoting success at school, and guaranteeing 12 years of education;

• Investing in adult education and lifelong learning.

The achievement of these goals implies the implementation of specific political measures by the Ministry of Education (ME) in order to promote school success and a successful integration of young adults in the society of the 21st century.

As part of the 22nd Constitutional Government Program, improving the quality of education for all is a priority, establishing as one of the strategic challenges the struggle against Inequalities, through more and better opportunities for all, without discrimination. Aiming at a quality of education for all, school must offer the most appropriate educational responses to each student, according to their needs and potential, increasing the quality of educational success and, consequently, developing more effectively the future human capital of society.

Such educational responses include the development of measures aimed at reducing retention and early school leaving, particularly in primary and lower secondary education, in which grade repetition is intended to be extinguished through intensive and differentiated work with students with lower performance and more education needs, including the early diagnosis of these difficulties (Pre-School Education). Promoting equity includes curriculum design able to respond, with quality, to specific educational contexts.

The strengthening of the basic competencies in Information and Communication Technologies of the Portuguese population, making it more qualified for the integration into the labour market in fields related to technology and digital, by promoting, at the same time, digital literacy and inclusion, is another strategic challenge (with natural highlights from the recent pandemic context). 

The Digital School propcess is a structural measure, designed to invest in network and equipment, a large program of training, together with the development of digital educational resources.

This initiative covers five strategic axis, including education. This initiative intends to ensure the education of young people through the encouragement and reinforcement in the fields of digital literacy and digital skills in all cycles of education and lifelong learning through:

• Promotion of pedagogical innovation in teaching-learning processes;

• Development of digital educational resources.