Radio ECCA Foundation

Radio ECCA Foundation was founded in 1965 in the Canary Islands (Spain), with the mission to bring education to adult people in remote and rural areas. Over the years, Radio ECCA has transformed into an established educational and learning centre, becoming a national benchmark in the field of adult education. The foundation has based its headquarter in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, but it operates, with additional offices, across the whole Spanish territory. Moreover, through institutional partnerships, it is also present in Latin America and West Africa.

Radio ECCA has developed its own distance teaching system - the ECCA System, which embeds the use of ICT and its own radio to conduct its educational work. It has developed >400 distance training programmes for adults (VET). The staff is composed by more than 200 professionals who design, produce and give to students the varied training offer at the regional, national, and international level.

Radio ECCA focuses its work on the promotion of adult education, entrepreneurship, social inclusion, environmental protection, health literacy, ICT, and innovation. Through its action, the foundation can reach different target groups: families at risk of exclusion, women, young people, adult students, unemployed people, entrepreneurs, migrants & refugees, people from rural areas, etc.

Radio ECCA has extensive experience in EU programmes and project management. It is currently implementing 10 European projects such as Erasmus+ and Interreg, mainly in the areas of young and adult education, social innovation, migrants' support actions, gender equlity promotion, entrepreneurship, rural development, innovation, ICT, environment, and awareness-raising & advocacy activities.