
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.
Featured Projects
News
Training courses on new technologies: continuing the journey within the communities of OUR DIGITAL VILLAGE
OUR DIGITAL VILLAGE has trained more than 100 teachers in various European countries on innovative technologies such as robotics and 3D printing, enhancing their digital skills for more engaging lessons. The teachers will lead courses for students and adults, promoting the pedagogical use of technology. Physical and online info desks provide technical support to rural communities, expanding access to digital resources.
The EDI practice improvement training course
EDI Go aims to support youth organisations by improving internal practices that promote equality, diversity, and inclusion. In September, 10 youth workers participated in a training course in Palermo, structured into 5 modules, to acquire skills to strengthen these practices. The materials, including curricula and resources, are available on the project platform in multiple languages.
A quality democratic system in the EU through legal literacy with LAW
LAW developed teaching tools to integrate basic legal literacy into European civic education programs. After three years of work, a textbook for students (ages 14-18), a handbook for teachers and an interactive platform were created and are available in five languages.
Events
School inclusion: SchoolPlus, reflections of the topic tables
In 2014, Fondazione CON IL SUD carried out eight projects against school truancy and early school-leaving in the city of Palermo, through the Bando Educazione dei Giovani (Call for Youth Education) 2013. The interventions engaged almost the entire context of the city,...
A testa alta (Head up high) – National public premiere
Cinema De Seta, at Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, is the location chosen for the national public premiere of a new documentary directed by Alberto Castiglione, A testa alta – Head up high. The film portrays peasants’ struggles and land occupations in 1940s Sicily. It...
We are the territory: maieutical workshops in L’Aquila
The idea of proposing in l’Aquila Danilo Dolci’s maieutic workshops is motivated by the necessity to react to the inability to change the relational environment where we live. The goal is stimulating, even within the public and institutional space, authentic...
Dear Vincenzina
Tonight I dreamt of her. Many wrinkles in her face as many as the years that I spent with her. In every wrinkle I see the breath of an immortal age, the freshness of an innocent feeling, the neatness of a fertile existence, the intimate innocence that today separates...
Insights

Three ways to be an educator: Danilo Dolci, Alberto Manzi, Don Milani
On March 3rd 2014 Radio Tre RAI has devoted its programme MemoRadio to collaborative didactics by comparing three different ways of being an educator and therefore remembering Danilo Dolci, Alberto Manzi and Don Lorenzo Milani. In the following extract you can...
Annotations to the communication subject in Danilo Dolci and in Paulo Freire
Note sul tema della “comunicazione” in Danilo Dolci e in Paulo Freire di Giovanni Battaglini Freire, intervenendo nel dibattito promosso da Dolci con la “Bozza di Manifesto - dal trasmettere al comunicare”, si dichiara d’accordo con le tesi esposte : la...
Rai Radio 3 speaks about Danilo Dolci
On Saturday the 15th, Sunday the 16th, Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th of January a cycle of episodes about Danilo Dolci will be broadcast as part of the “Passioni” program, edited by Cettina Flaccavento. The “Passioni” cycle, entitled “Danilo Dolci – a Choral...
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