Mission
Since its foundation in 1994, CSCS (Centro Studi “Cultura Sviluppo”) is committed in establishing bridges across Europe in the field of vocational education and training being contracted in more than 50 transnational research and vocational training projects.
CSCS is strongly committed to promote transnational cooperation as a mean for improving local vocational education and training schemes. Research projects promoted by CSCS aims at ensuring a great impact on local training programmes in terms of innovation, quality, methodologies, educational materials, integration of new technologies into teaching practices.
General Information / Background
Starting from 1995, CSCS (Centro Studi “Cultura Sviluppo”) plays as an European leading not-for-profit organization in the TVET sector, providing subsidiarity services for training and research, labour market improvement and pedagogic innovation, as well as transnational cooperation.
CSCS is located in the heart of Tuscany, in the north-centre of Italy and is accredited as a TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) center by the Regional Government. At the territorial level, CSCS is engaged in receiving and training every year, several transnational mobility learners, including groups of disadvantaged and in providing assistance to small numbers of migrants that are hosted in CSCS’s premises.
CSCS is an official partner of the UNESCO Transdisciplinary Chair on “Human Development and Culture of Peace” of the University of Florence and for the whole national territory, has received in 2014, by the Italian Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, the licence reserved to the not-for-profit organizations, to facilitate the matching process between labour demand and supply.
This activity includes, among other actions, the job placement of disabled people and groups of disadvantaged workers, career guidance and the design and provision of professional training for disadvantaged.
At European level, CSCS has carried out several project experiences in the TVET field and starting from 2009, is officially appointed by the European Commission as a Lead Intermediary Organisation of the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs network.
Extending outside of the EU borders dimension, CSCS is the founder and coordinator of skillman.eu, the worldwide network addressed to introduce skills, competences and innovative curricula for the advanced manufacturing sector within the VET pathways, under a model of intervention that includes sustainability and ethical values. The skillman.eu network was started in 2015 and is currently composed by nearly 300 organisations distributed in 48 countries worldwide.
From 2003, CSCS operates under a third-party-certified Quality Management System, currently approved by TUV as the EA37 - Quality Assurance System, ISO Vision 9001 version.