📋 Tender Overview
The Government of Brazil, through the Ministry of Education (MEC), launched on Monday (22/9) the cycle 2025-2026 of the Continuing Training and Written Training Program in Early Childhood Education (Pro-Leei). The initiative is part of the set of continuing education actions of the National Literate Child Commitment.
The program will qualify early childhood professionals, especially those who work in preschool, with children from 4 to 5 years, to strengthen pedagogical practices related to oral language, reading and writing. The initiative is structured in three axes: management and governance, with coordination and monitoring instances; Training of professionals, carried out through state and municipal trainers; and recognition of inspiring pedagogical practices.
Adhesion - According to data from the School Census of Basic Education, Brazilian Early Childhood Education has about 687 thousand teachers, a number that the initiative intends to reach fully. The program was a great success in 2024. In 2025, we have more than 28 partner universities, 24 states of the Federation and 207 thousand teachers, who are accompanying us in this new edition, said the director of teacher training and valorization of education professionals, Rita Esther Ferreira de Luna. In 2024, 26 federation units and 3,792 municipalities (68% of the total) participated in the initiative, involving 223,964 preschool teachers.
Universities - The Federal Higher Education Institutions (IFES) that offer the program courses were selected by notice, published by the MEC Basic Education Secretariat (SEB), to operationalize the program in the states and the Federal District, with reference technical teams. The implementation occurred through the adhesion of federative entities and budget availability.
Reference Team-It will be up to the selected institutions to operationalize the pro-Leei in each federation unit with the structure of the reference technical team, with the following minimum composition: a general coordinator; an assistant coordinator; two pedagogical advisors; two pedagogical advisors of inclusive education; a monitoring and evaluation advisor; a public management advisor; an administrative and financial advisor; an educational technician for the program classes in the municipalities; a computer technician, monitoring and processing; in addition to an interpreter of pounds and audio -descriptor. IFES will also be able to include undergraduate or postgraduate students in extension and research activities.
Commitment - The National Commitment Literacy Child is carried out in a collaboration basis between the Union and the federated entities. The goal is to ensure that 100% of Brazilian children are literate at the end of the 2nd year of elementary school, as provided for in Goal 5 of the National Education Plan (PNE). The program also seeks to ensure the recomposition of learning, focusing on the literacy of 100% of children enrolled in the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade, in view of the impact of the pandemic for this audience. Commitment does not propose a unique or centralized response throughout the country. Each state, in collaboration with its municipalities, will elaborate its territory literacy policy, according to its specificities.
