Lithuanian College of Democracy

Lithuanian College of Democracy, founded in 1997, is a voluntary non-governmental scientific association, seeking to promote the ideas of democracy in society and social innovation. The College organizes seminars, develops projects for the promotion of democracy, civic education and development, carries out programs of public education, organizes public debates, prepares research papers and publications in a cooperation with Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences. Our mission is the initiation of positive social changes by performing fundamental and applied research as well as implementing related initiatives and programmes in the spheres of social development, education and children wellbeing. Our vision is responsibility for pre-and-in-service training of social educators, social workers, leisure educators, animators, social, cultural and recreative activity managers, qualified specialists of social work and social law, as well as their capacity building, organizing of seminars and conferences in the sphere of social communication.