One of the aims of this co-ordinating body of civic organisations and institutions providing educational activities for schools is to play a part in the joint task of educating young citizens. The variety of activities offered by the organisations belonging to the Pedagogical Co-ordination Council can be used by schools to move towards an all-round education catering for the many different facets, skills and abilities of human deve-lopment.

The Pedagogical Co-ordination Council seeks to offer schools the greatest possible number and diversity of educational and cultural resources in order to optimise the city as an educational agent and broaden children’s learning opportunities. It also helps to give suitable publicity to one-off educational events staged by these organisations or arising out of the social fabric of the city.

A precondition for achieving these goals is the setting up of information and dissemination channels to meet the needs of schools and teachers. It also requires the setting up of instruments for getting to know the network of civic facilities, agencies and institutions with educational activities or resources.

Another goal of the Pedagogical Co-ordination Council is to ensure the continuous improvement and extension of the educational activities institutions and organi-sations make available to schools by opening up new spaces and creating new educational resources on the one hand, and updating and upgrading already existing ones on the other. Ensuring the qualitative improvement of the educational activities provided by organisations in regard to content, methodology, accessibility and compensation for inequalities, is one of the aims of the Pedagogical Co-ordination Council. One of the ways of achieving such renovation and improvement is through ongoing training for the professionals who manage, organise and develop educational activities for schoolchildren.

The Pedagogical Co-ordination Council also seeks to promote and improve mutual knowledge, dialogue and joint work between civic organisations and schools in order to move away from a pattern where educational activities are provided for schools as mere users of such services to one based on collaboration.