The Center for Democratic Education is a professional not-for-profit organization (NPO).

Its activity started in 1997 with the implementation of the “Developing Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking” Project, financed by Open Society Institute (OSI) – New York and with the International Reading Association (IRA) expertise – Washington DC under the umbrella and the management of the Albania Education Development Project (AEDP).

Since 2001, CDE operates as an independent NPO funded with the support of AEDP and OSI.

CDE offers and performs a number of intellectual services on: consultancy, research, training, information diffusion and collection and publication.

The mission of CDE is to support educational changes and reforms for the education development, by cultivating values and promoting critical thinking, problem solving skills and lifelong learning for all citizens of a democratic society.