ICE is a NGO dedicated to the promotion of local development, animation and intervention in local communities by educational means in order to combat social, cultural, ethnic and economic exclusion and the desertification of rural areas. Its educational projects contribute to the creation of social dynamics of solidarity. Formal and non-formal education are considered as interdependent in the initiation of educational processes. ICE projects promote diversity and difference as a motor in the creation of social dynamics. ICE is also operating in the area of civic education organising a congress on citizenship in April 2005. ICE contributes to the partnership a vast experience in the area of minority and community work and special experience regarding civic learning in rural areas.