Education Center Ghent supports, connects and inspires children and young people, parents (and other persons with educational responsibility), education professionals and their partners, so that children and young people have maximum development opportunities to participate fully to society. Education Center Ghent goes for life learning, high well-being and equal opportunities for all, and for the city as a broad learning and living environment. It does Education center by offering custom solutions, by crossing the boundaries of network and sector, by opting for sustainable actions that provide opportunities for structural anchoring, by sharing expertise and by making the link between research, policy and practice. Education Center Ghent is working on the above mission different (metropolitan) themes. It is developing around that theme Education center the flanking education policy, cross-network, linking research, policy and practice.