Institute states that its main objective is the ‘scientific, methodological and organizational imperative to ensure the system identifies, develops and supports gifted children and young people in the real socio-economic and educational environment of Ukraine’.
Its core purposes include:
- studying the phenomenon of giftedness and developing programmes, including technological support, for gifted learners at different stages of education, from kindergarten to higher education;
- reviewing and analysing promising directions in the education and support of gifted and talented youth;
- developing projects and programmes supporting the identification and physical, mental, social, spiritual and intellectual development of gifted learners as well as their legal and social protection;
- developing scientific solutions to pressing problems in the education of gifted children and youth;
- promoting the networking of institutions and organizations to work with gifted learners;
- informing social and public opinion and public awareness of the significance of talent development and support;
- securing the Institute’s involvement in international information-sharing and partnership in gifted education.
