Affiliated Institutions

As provided for in the Statutes (cf. art. 46), the Faculty establishes academic collaborations with other university institutions. It thus takes on the burden of promoting and ensuring the academic level of training offered by the institutions with which it is affiliated, and, under its own authority, confers academic degrees for the study curricula it teaches.

The Faculty maintains institutional and academic relations with its affiliated university institutions, accompanying those institutions in pursuing their own goals, thus demonstrating its ability to animate a broader and more complex academic engagement (Cf. Quality Culture. Guide for Ecclesiastical Faculties, 195).
As part of its commitment to train educators who are able to reflect on education itself and to work within diverse cultures and religious contexts in an authentic Christian spirit, the Faculty currently maintains academic relations with two institutions.

The Istituto Superiore di Scienze dell'Educazione e della Formazione «Giuseppe Toniolo» di Modena was founded on 4 April 2013 by a resolution of the administrative council of the social cooperative “CEIS Formation” of Modena.
It is promoted by the Northern Province of the Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (the Dehonians). This training organization, which was founded for the purpose of ensuring adequate preparation and continuing education for professionals working in the socio-educational and social welfare fields, provides training, research, documentation, and social planning. Together with the Donald J. Ottenberg Study Centre, it develops various services for higher education and research through methodological innovation and active collaboration with various organizations and a network of universities both locally and internationally, in particular with the universities of Modena, Reggio Emilia, Bologna, Rochester (United States), Ghent (Belgium), and Gothenburg (Sweden).
Since 2006, through its Donald J. Ottenburg Study Centre, it has been the site of a lecture hall of the Higher University Institute of the Social and Pedagogical Sciences “Progetto Uomo” (IPU) of Viterbo, which is affiliated with the Salesian Pontifical University of Rome, and it currently promotes the new Giuseppe Toniolo Institute of Modena.

The Istituto Giuseppe Toniolo is an academic community that contributes to developing studies, scientific research, and preparation for young people, and for working students in particular, to operate in the social sphere with a bachelor's degree, according to the definition of the Bologna Process.

Since July 25, 2013, l’Istituto Giuseppe Toniolo has been affiliated with the Auxilium Pontifical Faculty of Science of Education in Rome, which guarantees its academic quality and grants the degree.

Bachelor’s Degree in Education and Training Sciences

Since September 2018, the Degree Course in Education and Training Sciences offers the possibility of choosing between the Educator in Socio-Educational Services track and the Educator in Childhood Educational Services track.
It prepares educators with socio-pedagogical skills in the fields of education, reeducation, and training, with the goal of making them capable of working from an integral view of the person.
The degree is recognized for working in social cooperatives and for registration in the Auxiliary Entity Registries (Albi degli Enti Ausiliari), and, upon evaluation, it grants one access to other universities to obtain the Specialist Degree.
It is a three year degree offered to working students with a high school or higher diploma. How and where the course of study is taught facilitates coordinating with students’ work schedules.
Teachers involved in students' teaching preparation are professionals who work in the academic world and/or related professions.

Educator in Socio-Educational Services

The Bachelor’s degree in Educator in Socio-Educational Services promotes acquiring knowledge and basic skills in the educational sciences.
It prepares educators who are able to work within a holistic view of the person and of education in formal and non-formal structures and services for various life stages, with attention to poverty, youth marginality, intercultural situations, and educational activities.
It fulfills the preparation required for further specializations in the socio-educational field, and in particular it fulfills the requirements for access to the License (Master's Degree) in Pedagogical Sciences, the Pedagogist in Socio-Educational Services track, which is offered in the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences Auxilium.

The Bachelor’s degree in Educator in Socio-Educational Services

Educator in Educational Services for Early Childhood

The Bachelor’s course in Educator in Early Childhood Educational Services promotes acquiring knowledge and basic skills in the educational sciences.
It prepares educators who are able to work within a holistic view of the person and of education in formal and non-formal structures and services for early childhood care and parenting support, with attention to poverty, youth marginality, intercultural situations, and educational activities.
It fulfills the preparation required for further specializations in the socio-educational field, and in particular it fulfills the requirements for access to the License (Master's Degree) in Pedagogical Sciences, the Pedagogist in Socio-Educational Services track, which is offered in the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences Auxilium.

The Bachelor’s course in Educator in Early Childhood Educational Services

Contacts

Istituto Superiore di Scienze dell'Educazione e della Formazione «Giuseppe Toniolo»
Via Toniolo, 125 - 41122 MODENA (MO)
Tel. +39.059 711 26 17 (Segreteria)
Tel. +39.059 31 53 31 (Centralino CEIS)
Fax +39.059 315.353

Istituto «Giuseppe Toniolo»

The Istituto Superiore di Scienze dell’Educazione e della Formazione Don Vincenzo Sorce (IDS) was founded by an initiative of the «Associazione Casa Famiglia Rosetta Onlus» (Associazione Casa Rosetta), of Caltanissetta.
Founded on October 25, 1985 by Don Vincenzo Sorce, the Casa Rosetta Association works in the fields of neuropsychomotor rehabilitation and the treatment and prevention of substance abuse disorders and pathological addictions; they promote health education, assistance to minors, and ongoing professional training in the socio-health field while promoting the values of the dignity of the person and of human life, with a service style based on helping the least, on spirituality, and on ongoing education, all through a careful reading of the needs expressed in the thousand faces of poverty.
For this reason, since its founding the Casa Rosetta Association stands out as a living expression of Christian community through the testimony of creative charity that effectively meets the needs of the moment, reinforced by the support of a community of consecrated people in the world dedicated to Saint Mary of the Poor. In the words of its founder, they are called to be the deepest soul, the most fertile humus, of the entire Work.
In March 1990 the Casa Rosetta Association inaugurated the Euro-Mediterranean Institute for Training, Research, Therapy, Psychotherapy, and Development of Social Policies as a partner to design and implement educational initiatives that are closely related to all the Association's areas of interest and to promote its courses and events involving both its internal staff and various professionals in Sicily. On 3 November 2004 the Institute was restructured as a Foundation; on 6 December 2006, the name “Alessia” was added in memory of Alessia Pennisi, a young student who passed away prematurely.
Among the various activities of the Euro-Mediterranean Institute for Training, Research, Therapy, Psychotherapy and Development of Social Policies, from 2001 to 2010 it developed a Bachelor's degree course for educational professionals in association with the LUMSA University (Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta) of Rome to qualify professionals in the field of education.
In 2016, the ‘nulla osta’ of the Congregation for Catholic Education (2 June 2016 [n.1547/89]) opened the way for collaboration between the Rosetta Onlus Family House Association and the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences Auxilium to implement specialized courses in psychomotricity and for workers in pathological addictions.

Subsequently, by resolution no. 632/2017 of 5 August 2017 of the Congregation for Catholic Education, the Alessia Foundation - Euromediterranean Institute was granted a five year experimentation affiliation with the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences Auxilium to implement a Bachelor’s degree course of study in Professional Educator. The following year, the Alessia Foundation – Euromediterranean Institute offered a Bachelor’s degree course of study in Educational Sciences and Training by adapting to the Bachelor’s degree courses offered by the PFSE Auxilium. The course of study was offered during the five year period 2017–2022 in the two training centres in Caltanissetta and Partinico (PA).
In order to continue and increase the development of such courses of study, scientific research, and the preparation of local young people – particularly working students – to work in the socio-educational area, the Casa Rosetta Association, by resolution of the Board of Directors n. 284 on 26 July 2021, founded the Don Vincenzo Sorce Higher Institute of Educational Sciences and Training (IDS) to offer a course of study for the conferral of the Bachelor’s Degree in Education Sciences and Training. Consistent with the statutory purposes of the Casa Rosetta Association, the Institute intends to respond to the increasing demand for specialized professionals in socio-pedagogical and early childhood education who can work in social assistance, educational, and socio-sanitary areas; additionally, D.L. n. 104 of 14 August 2020 provides for their employment in the social assistance, socio-sanitary, and healthcare fields.
The resources and experiences acquired over time by the Alessia Foundation, such as its editorial work and library, have been made available to the Institute, in view of their shared and increasingly widespread growth in the area by promoting collaborative networks locally, nationally, and internationally.

Bachelor's Degree in the Educational and Training Sciences

The Bachelor's degree course of study in the Education and Training Sciences promotes acquiring knowledge and skills in the educational and training sciences; it fulfills the preparation required for further specialization in the socio-educational, scholastic, and training fields.
The course of study prepares professional educators who are capable of implementing services for the community, public and private organizations, and the third sector that manage and/or provide social and socio-sanitary services directed towards families, young people, minors, the elderly, immigrants, and people with pathological substance and behavioral addictions, with the goal of addressing poverty, marginalization, and suffering.

The course provides for a single curriculum with two tracks:

Educator in Educational Services for Early Childhood
This track prepares educators who are able to function within a holistic view of the child and of education in formal and non-formal settings and services for early childhood (nursery, family- or micro-nursery, and preschool), with particular attention to the family, intercultural situations, and educational activities.

Educator in Socio-Educational Services
This track prepares social educators who are able to work within a holistic view of the person, of education in formal and non-formal settings and services for all stages of the formative years, especially for childhood, with attention to poverty, youth marginality, intercultural situations, and educational activities.

Contacts and information

Information:
Istituto Superiore di Scienze dell'Educazione e della Formazione
Contrada da Bagno
93100 Caltanissetta

Segreteria Caltanissetta
320. 0799979 - 339.1042107

Segreteria Partinico
392.9642364


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