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- Youth and education
CIES is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) founded in 1983 whose mission is to promote
values of solidarity and cooperation, both in its national and international activities.
CIES’ activities aim at:
-promoting the intercultural values, the knowledge and the respect among cultures;
-fostering a positive integration by migrants;
-enhancing the cooperation to the development of weak and vulnerable social groups;
-increasing awareness on human rights, migration phenomena and fair trade;
-reducing the enormous gap between North and South and searching for new balances based on peace and the equitable distribution of resources of the planet.
Working divisions of CIES are: International Cooperation, Intercultural Mediation, Education and training, Communication and Events.
In particular, abroad, CIES supports projects and initiatives in the following activities: promoting children rights, education, alphabetization, job training, micro-finance, communication and health care.
In Italy, CIES encourages initiatives focused on the intercultural and global citizenship education and directed to develop positive integration of immigrants, such as linguistic-cultural mediation activities, workshops, seminars, training courses especially for teachers and young people, interactive exhibitions and multimedia productions.
Within the youth-center called "MaTeMù" everyday adolescents and young people, both autochthonous and of foreign origin, can express their creativity, participating in theater and music free activities; they can also receive scholastic support, improve the knowledge of the Italian language and find qualified educators, counselors and artistic operators that pay attention to their needs and problems. Moreover, CIES administers an Intercultural Documentation Center provides documentary resources to the intercultural activities.
CIES can contribute to the Italian Network offering its gained experience in the intercultural issues and sharing its best practises. Moreover CIES, as a member of the Italian NGOs Association and an active participant of the Global Citizenship Education Platform (which gathers more than 60 italian NGOs involved in the Global Citizenship Education sector), could spread in this context the initiatives undertaken within the ALF National Network.
CIES totally shares the Anna Lindh Foundation purpose and wants to contribute to the implementation of ALF fields of action and to strengthen the european partenership.