Centre for Inclusive Education (CIE)

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The Centre for Inclusive Education, founded in 2007, is a non-governmental organisation whose main aim is to promote inclusive school environment as a quality standard in education.

Mission
It is our belief that every child must be included and valued. The Centre for Inclusive Education works to promote social inclusion and quality education for all children.

What we do
The Centre for Inclusive Education protects the rights of all children to learn together by working with the school as a system to build inclusive school environment, by conducting studies and analyses, by taking part in public discussions on policies for children well being, by training professionals in the sector of education, by involving them in a professional community, and by launching events aimed at changing the attitudes of the wider public.

Goals
• To support professionals in the field of education working with school children with various educational capacities and needs in a way that will make them confident to teach and support children effectively and to create inclusive school environment for all.
• To raise awareness among educational and social institutions, and strengthen their capacity, to introduce and meet child safeguarding and child participation standards.
• To raise awareness and sensitize national and local decision makers about the philosophy and problems of inclusive education and child protection.
• To stir interest and gain support within the wider community, donor organisations and businesses about causes dealing with quality education, child safeguarding and child participation.

We offer:
• Trainings in the field of inclusive education, global education, child participation and child protection. Centre for Inclusive Education offers a total of eleven training programs aimed at teaching professionals or children and young people.
• School mediation resolves conflicts which arise in the school environment with the help of a school mediator. Case mediation; Peer mediation training for pupils; Training for teaching and non-teaching staff; Rules for Democratic Communication
• The Centre for Inclusive Education initiated a professional community for inclusive education. This Community is an informal association of people with common interests and shared values. It unites various types of professionals: educators, psychologists, speech therapists, university teachers, resource teachers, and school mediators.

Projects:
• Looking Forward My Future – School Makes Sense Programme
• School is My Right Too
• Laboratory for Parents
• FIESTA - Facilitating Inclusive Education and Supporting the Transition Agenda
• GATE - Understanding dyslexia phenomena between pre-primary and primary school
• EMBED - Embedding Dyslexia-Responsive Practices in Lifelong Learning
• North-South connection: partnership for a more just world between European and African schools
• Getting to Know! Pilot Introduction of Development Education in the Formal Education System in Bulgaria

Dimitar Lazarov is the Strategies, Policies and Programmes Director of the Centre for Inclusive Education (CIE).

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