Center for Educational Initiatives

Center for Educational Initiatives is a non-governmental, non-profit association aimed at enhancing innovative educational initiatives and facilitating educational reforms through co-operation between institutions on regional and European level.

CEI was established as a Programme of the Balkan Colleges foundation in January 1999. In October 2000 CEI was registered as an independent association. The main objectives of the Center for Educational Initiatives are:

• to assist in the improvement of the quality and cost-effectiveness of the educational reform process in Bulgaria on civil and public administration level in the context of European integration and regional co-operation initiatives in the region;

• to support the developing of educational institutions into enhanced contributors to societal institution-building, especially with regard to democracy, human rights, and minority rights;

• to elaborate and implement different initiatives promoting the restructuring and modernisation of curricula and syllabi, methodology, school management and evaluation of the teaching and learning process;

• to facilitate cooperation in the field of education and culture on local, regional and European level, acting as a clearing house to provoke dialogue and enhance co-operation between the state, society, NGOs, and school actors on all levels, including the establishment and enlargement of school and university networks.