Member

Member for

2 years 1 month
Name of the organization
IPAV - Instituto Padre António Vieira
Full address
Trav. Pedras Negras, 1, 4
Country
Portugal
Type of organization
Private
Name and surname
Rui Nunes da Silva
Position in the organization
CEO
Telephone
+351937200051
Which of the following topics would you like to further work on at the European level in the network?
Social innovation
Equal opportunities for disadvantaged groups
Lifelong learning
Development of innovative educational methods
Recognition of non-formal and informal qualifications
Transnational cooperation/development cooperation
Description

IPAV - INSTITUTO PADRE ANTÓNIO VIEIRA is a non-profit civic association, recognized as a public utility organization (IPSS) and a Non-Governmental Organization for Development (NGDO), whose mission is the promotion of human dignity. It is a leading organization in social innovation and a specialist in collaborative culture promoting "unity in diversity", in Portugal and in the world. In recent years IPAV has developed its activities around projects that are distinguished by their association with two essential and innovative concepts: Ubuntu and Integrated Governance. These two concepts are the key to IPAV's strategy. In the complex and fragmented world we live in, the violations of Human Dignity, in its multiple forms, are emerging as the central problem that IPAV, through its mission, intends to combat. In a very concrete way, two specific and clear answers emerge: Collaboration, as a primordial way of responding to an almost always complex reality, and Unity in Diversity as a possible and desirable outlet for the social fragmentation that is becoming more pronounced. Now, IPAV has precisely in Ubuntu and in Govint, two methodological proposals to develop answers, be it with regards to personal or organizational relationships.