Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde

Created in 1979 by a commission led by Prof. António de Oliveira Cruz, its Institutional President and Director of Research, with the full acceptance of his patron Jean Piaget (who, through a historical letter, accepted « avecJoie ", not only give him the name but also be the first President of Honor) The Piaget Institute is a cooperative for Integral and Ecological Human Development. By consecrating in its statutes a philosophy of anthropological-cultural and philanthropic matrix, inspired by the fundamental values ​​of an integral, creative and innovative humanism, it defends, in its different areas of investigative, formative and social intervention, the systematic assumption, on the part of its leaders And associates, of an independent, open and pluralist ideological, political-partisan and religious position, and of a non-profit management, by reinvesting the economic remnant of its activity in the development of regions marked by interiority or by peripherality, Of local and regional intelligences, In the creation of jobs, in the fight against demographic exodus and desertification, and in the constant improvement of all aspects of its vast institutional project. Its core areas of activity are research, training and teaching, bibliographic publication, cultural and social dynamism.