<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> <!-- Parent-Version:1.961.99 --> <!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> <!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> <title>Educational Groups and Projects - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/side-menu.css" media="screen" /> <!--#include virtual="/education/po/edu-projects.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> <div class="nav"> <a id="side-menu-button" class="switch" href="#navlinks"> <img id="side-menu-icon" height="32" src="/graphics/icons/side-menu.png" title="Education Contents" alt=" [Education Contents] " /> </a> <p class="breadcrumb"> <a href="/"><img src="/graphics/icons/home.png" height="24" alt="GNU Home" title="GNU Home" /></a> / <a href="/education/education.html">Education</a> / <a href="/education/edu-resources.html">Resources</a> / </p> </div> <!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> <!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> <div style="clear: both"></div> <div id="last-div" class="reduced-width"> <h2>Groups and Projects</h2> <div class="article"> <p>There are several groups and organizations around the world who follow the GNU philosophy and are working on projects aimed at bringing free software to the education field. A few of them are listed below. If your project supports only free software and it is not listed here, please contact us at <a href="mailto:education@gnu.org"> <education@gnu.org></a> to let us know.</p> <!-- Add new entries in alphabetical order except for projects directly related to GNU, which should be listed first --> <dl> <dt><a href="https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/education/education.en.html"> FSFE Education Project</a></dt> <dd>“The FSFE's Education Team exists to raise awareness and bring the benefits of free software to all groups involved in education. It aims for a legal framework that prohibits discrimination against free software and its users.”</dd> <dt><ahref="http://guri.hipatia.net/">GURI</a></dt>href="https://fuss.bz.it/">FUSS Project</a></dt> <dd>FUSS (Free Upgrade for a Digitally Sustainable School) is a project started in Italy in 2005 with the aim of bringing free software to schools in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. It led to the migration to free software of <a href="/education/edu-cases-italy-south-tyrol.html">all schools in Italian language</a> in South Tyrol.</dd> <dt><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221007213049/http://guri.hipatia.net/">GURI</a></dt> <dd>Guri is a group which was born inside an Italian High School as the result of a program carried out by NGO Hipatia to raise awareness about the role of free software in the education field. Guri opposes the growing practice of treating knowledge as if it were a tangible object subject to ownership. It fights to change the mainstream cultural framework in Italy which prevents the exercise of some of the most important human rights by posing dangerous threats to our freedom such as software patents, unfair copyright laws, and the adoption of proprietary, subjugating software. <p>The goals of the Guri project are to convert the educational system so that it is based exclusively on free software and to extend the freedoms it grants to every field of knowledge. Guri believes in the power of education to shape a better society by teaching students the values of sharing and cooperation. It advocates and works towards a non-pyramidal system to share knowledge as a fundamental good for humanity, a system in which everyone can participate actively and access knowledge without restrictions.</p> <p>To achieve its goals, the group takes action mainly in High School and University environments, organizing workshops and courses to promote awareness about the ethical principles of free software.</p> </dd> <dt><ahref="http://hipatia.net/">Hipatia</a></dt>href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230127044003/http://hipatia.net/">Hipatia</a></dt> <dd>Hipatia is an international NGO (non-governmental organization) that upholds the right of all human beings to access, use, create, modify and distribute knowledge. It is formed by people from all around the world who advocate the ideals of the free software movement and work towards putting those principles into practice. Hipatia emphasizes the importance of using free software in education; to that end, its members often conduct workshops in educational institutions, specially in primary and secondary level schools. <p>The name of the group refers to the Greek philosopher <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia">Hypatia.</a></p> </dd> <dt><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181214064758/https://www.itschool.gov.in/otherprograms.php">IT@School</a></dt> <dd>IT@School is a project of the government of Kerala, India, started in 2001 to introduce Information Communication Technologies into the State's schools. As part of the project, a customized GNU/Linux operating system was developed, which is now being used in more than 2,600 schools in the State. Training in the use of Free Software was imparted to thousands of teachers, school coordinators and students.</dd> <dt><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/">Sugar Labs</a></dt> <dd>Sugar Labs is a project that provides the <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/What_is_Sugar">Sugar learning platform</a>, an interface specially designed to facilitate the use of computers by children, with a special focus on its use in educational environments.</dd> </dl> </div></div></div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> <!--#include virtual="/education/education-menu.html" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> <div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="unprintable"> <p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> the FSF. 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