Centro Laudato Si

Training courses

Training courses planned by the Laudato Si’ Center for Higher Education have the objective of raising aware citizens and responsible professionals, establishing ties of solidarity, and promoting real development on behalf of community and environment. Thus, education provides support to social justice, freedom, future generations, and renews lifestyles inspired by integral ecology and pursuing common good.
Training for entrepreneurs
and managers
Educational and
awareness-raising events
Tours open to the public
Work Training
Student training

Education provided by the Laudato Si’ Center fosters, then, ways of thinking and acting, lifestyles and types of work, communication, production and consumption focusing on integral ecology. It is not enough to educate women and men up-to-date and endowed with professional skills. It is also necessary to set up training courses enhancing in people their willingness to create local networks, circular and generative economies, and promote sustainable development projects.

A training creating value takes on a broader vision on environmental education. The latter, «whereas in the beginning it was mainly centered on scientific information, consciousness-raising and the prevention of environmental risks, it tends now to include a critique of the “myths” of a modernity grounded in a utilitarian mindset (individualism, unlimited progress, com- petition, consumerism, the unregulated market). It seeks also to restore the various levels of ecological equilibrium, establishing harmony within ourselves, with others, with nature and other living creatures, and with God » (Laudato Si’, 210).

The culture of “taking care” becomes, then, the foundation for an individual and social training action. For this scope, Pope Francis entrusted the Laudato Si’ Higher Education Center with the educational task regarding a crucial issue of our time: the care for our common home by enacting concrete actions that place integral ecology and integral human development at the center.