The Piaget Institute Created in 1979 by a committee headed by Prof. António de Oliveira Cruz, its President and Director of Institutional Research, with the full acceptance of its patron Jean Piaget (which through a historical letter, accepted "avecjoie ", not only give you the name but also be the first President of Honor) Piaget Institute is a cooperative for Integral Human Development and Ecological. consecrating in its statutes a philosophy of anthropological-cultural and philanthropic matrix, inspired by the values fundamental for an integral humanism, creative and innovative, defends, in its various areas of investigative intervention, training and social, the systematic assumption on the part of its leaders and associates, an independent, open and pluralistic stance on ideological, political partisan and religious, and a management non-profit to reinvest the economic remnant of its activity in the development of regions marked by interior or the remoteness, in setting