About us

Prevent and reduce, through educational and social work, the disadvantages and obstacles of individuals with special needs or living in social and cultural difficulties.

Promote, thanks to formative work and support to research and experimentation, pedagogical and social innovation, and the capacity building of the individuals and institutions in charge of education, as well as those who take care of people living in sufferance, discomfort, exploitation, disadvantage and difficulties, including situations created by war or natural disaster.

Promote in theory and in action the concept of “community education”, which highlights the idea of building an educational system where all the resources present in the community converge, in order to create collaborations that avoid entrusting education only to the individual specialists, but that link together education and coexistence, participation, democratic development.

Foster respect for Human Rights, in particular the rights of children, disabled persons, minority groups, improving the knowledge and application of the international conventions on the topic.

To encourage policies oriented to gender equality and to the valorisation of cultural and ethnic differences.

To promote capacity building, as well as pedagogical and social innovation, thanks to formative work and support to experimentation