Guanajuato

State Institute of Youth

Institute of Financing and Information for Education

Guanajuato Government State 🦸‍♂️

EDUCAFIN, otherwise known as the Institution of Finance and Information for Education, is a public decentralized governmental agency that operates within the State of Guanajuato to finance and inform the state’s residents of educational opportunities locally and abroad. It is the mission of EDUCAFIN, based in the city of Leon, to expand the accessibility of educational opportunities and improve the educational trajectory of the state’s residents.

Mission 💙

The organization facilitates this by funding programs that develop participants’ aptitude, competencies, and abilities so that they might reach their full potential. It is furthermore, EDUCAFIN’s goal to achieve this through the promotion of social responsibility, sustainable practices, cutting-edge technology, and professional development in order to provide quality service to its beneficiaries.

Access in Guanajuato

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Since 2017, EDUCAFIN has promoted the Access program as the only strategic actor in Guanajuato that develops students year after year. Currently, Access is made up of 34 of the best students in the State of Guanajuato.

Get to know EDUCAFIN

Starting the program

The Access Program was launched by EDUCAFIN in 2017 for 20 High School students in Guanajuato.
In fall of 2017, EDUCAFIN was granted the Access program by the Regional English Language Office in Mexico City for 20 of students. In January 2020, EDUCAFIN will open its second generation of the Access program with an estimated 34 of students divided into two groups based in Leon. Access students therefore have the benefit of being supported by two governments.

1st Cohort - 2017 👨‍🎓

Access in Guanajuato graduated 20 students after two years of learning and development.

EDUCAFIN graduated 20 high school students in its first edition.
2 students won the Líderes del Mañana scholarship from Tecnológico de Monterrey to study a Bachelor's degree with a 100% scholarship.
3 students won the Talent Guanajuato Capitulo China scholarship to study a Bachelor's degree with a 100% scholarship.
16 students managed to enter public and private universities such as UG, La Salle, UNITEC, Politécnico Nacional, among others.
Access Guanajuato was selected to be part of the International Visitor Leadership Program of the United States Government in March 2020.
Currently, the Access program implements the second edition with 34 students divided into 2 groups, these being selected from a sample of the best young people from educational systems in the State of Guanajuato.

👩‍🎓 2nd Cohort 2020

Access in Guanajuato went to virtual mode with 2 groups of 34 students from municipalities surrounding the León area

34 High School students from Guanajuato were selected from more than 100 young people studying at the best educational systems.

Participation in the main EDUCAFIN's Youth Networks, developing their leadership and social commitment.

Participants of United Nations Models.

2 students have been winners of calls for international mobility to Canada.

Geographic distribution 🚩

The following are statistical data on the geographic distribution of Access students. As can be seen, the majority live in the city of León and some others in municipalities surrounding the area.

Demographics 📊

In addition to geographic distribution, the Access program is 57% female and 42.4% male made up. Most of students are between 15 and 17 years old, studying the first year of the High School.

Excellence in education 🏫

Our students are talented young people who stand out in the main High School institutions. A great majority study at the Regional High School of San Francisco del Rincón. Despite this, there is an important representation of other educational systems.

A new beggining...🚀

EDUCAFIN has now the challenge to serve youth population in the State of Guanajuato.
To lead this strategy that is born from the fusion of the Institute of Financing and Information for Education -EDUCAFIN- and the State Institute of Youth; the Governor of the State, Diego Sinhue, appointed Jorge Hernández as head of this new institute.Guanajuato with this new instrument will promote transversal actions and programs, the Governor pointed out, will give better attention, with more opportunity and knowledge of the needs of young people, by having an Information System and continuous Evaluation, to be more relevant and focus better programs.