The Reggio Children – Loris Malaguzzi Centre Foundation (''Fondazione Reggio Children Centro Loris Malaguzzi'') is an international

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for the promotion of the

Reggio Emilia approach The Reggio Emilia approach is an educational philosophy and pedagogy focused on preschool and primary education. This approach is a student-centered and constructivist self-guided curriculum that uses self-directed, experiential learning in rel ...

around the world. The foundation, which is based in

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, was launched in September 2011, and is dedicated to the memory of Loris Malaguzzi, who developed the Reggio Emilia approach.

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s and/or

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s constitute most of the founding partners of the foundation: North American Reggio Emilia Alliance (NAREA;

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), Reggio Emilia Institutet (

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), Red Solare

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, Cooperativa Italiana di Ristorazione (CIR; Italy), Cooperativa Sociale Coopselios (Italy), and Fondazione Manodori (Italy). Other partners are EFFE 2005 Gruppo Feltrinelli S.p.A., a

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holding company for ''la''effe (an Italian television channel owned by the Feltrinelli media group), and the municipal/city council of Reggio Emilia (''Comune di Reggio Emilia''). The foundation states that its mission and aims include: recognising the potential and rights of children from birth; sharing the educational values of the

through dialogue with other countries and experiences, promoting the Loris Malaguzzi International Centre (''Centro Internazionale Loris Malaguzzi'') as a place of research, innovation and experimentation; strengthening the educational experience offered by the partners, so that they continue to maintain the quality of their education services; respond to requests for exchange and collaboration; act as a motor for the development of research projects, with national and international partners, and; organizing and developing initiatives in the realm of solidarity and international cooperation in general. There are three major projects/foci of the foundation. * ''Remida'': promoting both the collection, organisation and distribution of materials discarded by manufacturing businesses – and a culture of creative re-use of discarded materials; (The name is a play on words in Italian: "RE" is the initials of Reggio Emilia, ''mida'' means "gives me" and ''Re Mida'' is also Italian for "

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".) * ''Educa'': (Italian: "educates") a joint project with the

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, promoting the role of the community in improving the quality of education for children aged from three to 14 years, and; * The Loris Malaguzzi Award, which recognises contributions to the promotion of the Reggio Emilia approach, the thought of Loris Malaguzzi, and/or children's education in general.

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* Educational foundations Children's charities based in Italy 2011 establishments in Italy Foundations based in Italy Organisations based in Reggio Emilia Organizations established in 2011 {{Nonprofit-org-stub