CEEC European Committee for Catholic Education

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Set up in 1974 as the regional committee of the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC), the European Committee for Catholic Education (CEEC) is an international non-profit association. It is the cooperation tool for 25 Central, Eastern and Western European Catholic education networks: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England & Wales, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland (Eire), Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine. The CEEC is a meeting-point for the heads of these networks and also a study and information centre. Moreover it plays the role of a promoter of free Catholic education towards the various European bodies.The CEEC represents in this way about 30.500 schools and 7,5 million pupils.

In order to play an effective part in the field of education, the CEEC wishes :

to serve the education of young people and to study the fundamental principles of this education as well as the problems caused by their application;

to defend and promote the interests of catholic education within various official European bodies and all organizations interested in education at a European level.

to promote the collaboration of its members in order to ensure the didactic and pedagogic development and improvement of catholic education;

to encourage private initiatives as well as legal or regulatory provisions taken at a national and at an international level in order to promote education in its various forms;

to actively promote the effective carrying into practice of freedom of education as a fundamental condition for the functioning of a democratic society, in conformity with the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and with the additional Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights;

to help its members, and more particularly the more underprivileged ones, in the discharge of their rights and duties;

to highlight the complementary needs both of the educators and of the specific contribution of catholic education to the educational project;

to co-operate with other organizations participating in catholic education at a European and international level.

Cooperation with the representatives of the Christian educational community is put into practice structurally via joint activities with parents through the European section of the International Group of Parents' Associations in Catholic Education (OE-GIAPEC).

PRESIDENCY - AUSTRIA
represented by Dr Christine MANN, Leiterin des Amtes
Interdiözesanes Amt für Unterricht und Erziehung

VICE-PRESIDENCY - THE NETHERLANDS
represented by Mr. Dick WIJTE, Director of the Nederlandse Katholieke Schoolraad (NKSR)

TREASURER - SPAIN represented by Brother Juan António OJEDA ORTIZ, Secretary General of the Federación Española de Religiosos de Enseñanza – Centros Católicos (FERE-CECA)

GENERAL SECRETARIAT Mr Etienne VERHACK, Secretary General
Mrs Myriam BADART, admin. & financial director

Avenue Marnix 19 Bte.6 - B - 1000 BRUSSELS
Tél. +32 2 511 47 74 - Fax +32 2 513 86 94
ceec@skynet.be - http://www.ceec.be