Who are we?
FESET (Formation d'Educateurs Sociaux Européens / European Social Educator Training) is a European association of training centres for socio-educational care work.
According to the statutes, the aims of FESET are, whilst respecting the complete autonomy of the affiliated training centres,
According to the statutes, the aims of FESET are, whilst respecting the complete autonomy of the affiliated training centres,
- to promote the education and training for socio-educational purposes,
- to participate in programmes of different European bodies,
- to ensure that the training centres be represented at the institutions of the European Union, the Council of Europe as well as other international organisations,
- to encourage exchanges and understanding between training centres in the Member States of the EU, in the Member States of the Council of Europe and in other European States,
- to promote terms of mutual recognition of diplomas.
These aims have been further developed as follows:
- to be involved in European and International organisations as a N.G.O,
- to produce and sustain research and studies on the problems posed by the European Union understood merely as a free marketing of goods (social and economic impoverishment, exclusion and social injustice),
- to collaborate with other associations with similar goals,
- to support democratic and non violent pedagogical methods enabling the full development of the individual as well as the highest degree of autonomy and social integration,
- to work in each European country for the enactment and development of social laws respecting the human rights of individuals with whom socialpedagogues work as well as the rights and duties of the socialpedagogues,
- to work in each European country for the development and professional regulation of socio-educational care work,
- to work for the development of the European dimension of socio-educational care work, including the de jure and de facto recognition of the profession itself,
- to promote and develop exchanges among the members of FESET in order to arrive at academic recognition of qualifications obtained in the member-schools.