CREA, the direct result of extensive collaboration with research groups in other countries, studies a wide range of situations and educational groups working in society-at-large and in the political arena, and is concerned with both the provision and quality of education and the creation of employment.

• Measures to increase the participation of those sectors which traditionally do not participate in various areas of society and politics.

• New understanding of skills and aptitudes for the design of educational programmes.

• Project to turn schools into Learning Communities as an innovative strategy for overcoming academic failure and absenteeism. Consultancy service provided at each step in the process.

• Consultancy service provided in the introduction of the learning dialogue.

• Directives for designing accreditation policies for previous experience acquired through practice in the various spheres of everyday life.

• Research techniques employing a communicative approach: informal talks, life histories, interviews and communicative case studies.

• New methods for facilitating the insertion of ethnic minorities into society and work.

• Possibilities offered by new technologies in education as a way of bringing the training processes to a wider audience.

• Project evaluations and needs analyses.

• Study of training aptitudes and needs: using analytical instruments created by CREA: ANAT and ACOT.

• Promoting the development of the critical theory of the international scientific community, making contributions that enrich its activities, organising seminars or other ways of fostering the scientific exchange of ideas.