In 2004, a group of students of Harvard and MIT get together periodically to discuss the poverty and inequality situations in different places of Latin America.  As they were exploring the causes, they were analyzing posible choices of solving those problems.  In a space designed for these kind of reflections and under the consultancy of their professors, they began to develop the idea that the citizen participation is fundamental to carry out actions focused on the improvement of the people life's quality.

These meetings evolved up to create an international Net of specialists in the field of education aiming to do research, design, implementation and evaluation of strategies that could be an answer to the poverty and inequality situations that suffers one third of the world's population.

Planning session Via Education, 2005, Cambridge, MA

This Net was called ViaEducation and is compunded by representants of seven latinoamerican countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico.  Besides the diversity of countries, the diversity in the specialization areas includes International Educative Policy, Technology and Education, Mind, Brain and Education, Precaution and Risk and Teaching-Learning. 

Every member of ViaEducation began his work in their own speciality field and the Net acquired a good sense using itself as a link to continue with the exchange of ideas, experiences and abilities focused on the sustainable development.

Planning session Via Education, 2005, Cambridge, MA

The Mexico Chapter of ViaEducation began in 2005 with a Citizen education project and has progressed through the development of other programs focused on the Education quality and the design of didactic strategies that contributes to increase the educational opportunities of the poor people.

Nowadays ViaEducation conitnues establishing alliances with different organizations, universities, private sector, government and civil society, to intercede in the design, implementation and evaluation of initiatives focused on the sustainable development.

Generate opportunities for sustainable social development throughout the design, implementation and evaluation of educational strategies.

ViaEducation fulfills its mission through four main research areas: quality education, citizen education, education policy and social responsibility.

Via Education's friends, 2005, Cambridge, MA