CEIPES

Coordinator

CEIPES – International Centre for the Promotion of Education and Development is an International non-profit association founded in Palermo in 2007 and with antennas in other 8 European countries.

Our Mission

We believe that education and development are fundamental values to achieve peace and dignity for all human beings. Each individual and community has the potential to fulfill its rights. CEIPES acts as a facilitator for activating the community, through an educational approach in order to create and transform energy and resources. This process is necessary for both individual and social development.

The mission of CEIPES is to foster and support the sustainable development of local communities and individuals’ empowerment through education and training, human rights and international cooperation.

Objectives:

  1. To promote non formal education as a fundamental tool in the education of youth and adults and as complementary to formal education.
  2. To promote personal and community development through learning mobility.
  3. To create new innovative tools and methodologies to develop useful strategies in the field of education through cooperation with public and private entities at local and international level.
  4. To promote study, research and innovation, both methodological and technological, with the aim of giving scientific support to the specific activities carried out by our association.
  5. To encourage intercultural dialogue with the objective of fostering mutual understanding and respect between individuals from different cultures.
  6. To promote peace, nonviolence and human rights as a fundamental tool reach a world of equality and solidarity in which all human beings can access to their fundamental rights.

Contact details

 

Country

Italy

Name of the institution

CEIPES – International Centre for the Promotion of Education and Development

Address

Via Francesco Maria Alias, 20

90141 – Palermo

Telephone

+39 091 7848 236

Contact person

Silvia Calcavecchio

E-mail

silvia.calcavecchio@ceipes.org

Website

www.ceipes.org

Facebook 

https://www.facebook.com/CEIPES/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/ceipes/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/ceipeseurope