Fondation CIDEAL

CIDEAL is a foundation that has been working for more than 25 years in research , training and technical assistance within the framework of development cooperation. She also has extensive experience in the execution of development programs and projects in the countries of the South. Founded in Madrid in 1983 as a private non-profit association, CIDEAL today has local agencies and permanent experts in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia.

As a research center specializing in international relations and development cooperation, the foundation offers various postgraduate university courses as well as numerous specialized courses, seminars and workshops. In addition, she has her own publishing house thanks to which she distributes part of her studies. Today, it has more than seventy books among its publications, some of which have become references in their field.

The complementary combination of theoretical and practical activities has made CIDEAL a pioneering entity in Spain, which today distinguishes it from the majority of organizations in the sector. CIDEAL applies the results of its research in the projects it carries out in the countries of the South while taking advantage of its experience in the field for its investigations.

From a political and economic point of view, CIDEAL is an independent organization that develops professional excellence and is made up of experts from various ideological tendencies.

From the outset, CIDEAL has endeavored to broaden and professionalize the development cooperation environment by involving various public and private actors in it. The path it has helped to pave in this area is one of its greatest victories and one of the main marks of its identity.