ORIGIN OF THE FOUNDATION

In October 2005, Delphine le Serre began her doctorate in Rennes, France. In parallel of her research activities, she started teaching at the university. Her first lesson was a revelation for her: she had found her calling, this “why” that we sometimes seek for a lifetime. She had started her career a few years earlier as an engineer in industry but realized that she was destined to be part of the education sector. She became a professor, researcher, educational program director, director of digital transformation, entrepreneur then senior advisor of investment funds. She held these various roles for more than 15 years with the same passion and vision: that of offering the best to generations of students.

In March 2020, Delphine moved to Montreal with her family. Like more than 2.6 billion people on the planet, she was confined and she was living this unprecedented event in the history of humanity. An event where collectively, billions of human beings on the planet found themselves facing their finitude, at the same time. She realized the collective error into which the entire modern education system had fallen, from the smallest schools to the largest universities, over the past 60 years. An outdated model of education, disconnected from the challenges that humanity must address. Then the entrepreneur in her began to think about the creation of an educational movement, embodied by a foundation, that would promote a new education paradigm, carrying individual and collective meaning for humanity.

This is how EdHu2050 was born.