The Centre for Creative Development Danilo Dolci – ETS is a non-profit association involving young people and adults, which mainly acts through projects in the educational field carried out in cooperation with schools, universities, institutions, associations and social groups both at local and international level.

Danilo Dolci

The story of his civic, educational and political engagement since 1950s.

Reciprocal Maieutic Approach

The reciprocal maieutic approach is a popular dialectic methodology of research and self-analysis.

Projects

Collaborating with national and international organisations, CSC makes use of innovative methodologies aimed at empowering individuals and communities and improving their creative process.

Our network

CSC’s EU-wide informal network gathers our closest partners who share our mission, objectives and approaches.

Danilo Dolci

The story of his civic, educational and political engagement since 1950s.

Reciprocal Maieutic Approach

The reciprocal maieutic approach is a popular dialectic methodology of research and self-analysis.

Projects

Collaborating with national and international organisations, CSC makes use of innovative methodologies aimed at empowering individuals and communities and improving their creative process.

Our network

CSC’s EU-wide informal network gathers our closest partners who share our mission, objectives and approaches.

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News

MILES: Combating Disinformation Through Media and Data Literacy in Europe

MILES: Combating Disinformation Through Media and Data Literacy in Europe

Over the past year, MILES has been actively involved in gathering data and conducting field research to develop a comprehensive transnational European report on the state of media literacy across participating countries and beyond. This report represents the first major outcome of the project and serves as a crucial resource for understanding the current landscape of media and information literacy across Europe.

Be Inclusive! – Newsletter #1

Be Inclusive! – Newsletter #1

In the project’s first newsletter, the details of the initial result were shared: a national-level study on the employment of people with disabilities and best practices for workplace inclusion.

Events

Insights

SOS – We are dying here

SOS – We are dying here

Voices from Partinico to illustrate the problems of the victims of the earthquake … Two of Danilo Dolci collaborators, Franco Alasia and Pino Lombardo, barricaded themselves into Centro Studi e Iniziative premises; they have a quite powerful radio with which they...

Fahrenheit – Re-publishing Danilo Dolci’s works

Is it useful nowadays to read or re-read Danilo Dolci’s works? Why do people feel the need to get inspired by his non-violent philosophy and actions? Loredana Lipperini has talked about it with Giuseppe Barone and Giuseppe Dicevi during Radio3 RAI...

Uomini e Profeti (Of Men and Prophets): Sicily, Land of Peace

Since  his arrival in Sicily in 1952 and until his death in 1997, Danilo Dolci had been carrying out in Sicily his educational approach based on non-violent practices, such as fasting, public denunciations against mafia and patronage system, “strikes in reverse”,...

Books

Unpublished conversations with Danilo Dolci

Unpublished conversations with Danilo Dolci

  “If only most of the individuals in the Western World were not so blind to see real greatness, Dolci would be even more famous than he actually is”. Erich Fromm In the volume "Conversazioni con Danilo Dolci" (Conversations with Danilo Dolci) – published by Mondadori...

Conversazioni con Danilo Dolci in bookstores again

  Mesogea editore, Messina 2013 When Giacinto Spagnoletti, well known literatus, went to Sicily in December 1975 to meet Danilo Dolci and his colleagues of the Centro Studi e Iniziative of Partinico, «he had not the exact idea of creating a book, but recording some...