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Diploma criteria

Following the Criteria below, we will accept 18 people with the best score out of the 30 applicants for each course (English Diploma, Spanish Diploma, Licentiate).

Criteria for Acceptance to the Diploma in Safeguarding program:

CriteriaScore
Academic Background
3
  • Bachelor: 1
  • Masters’ Degree: 2
  • PhD: 3
Further academic/formative titles gained
2
  • Professional studies: 1
  • Second academic study/ongoing formation certificate: 2
Practical experience
3
Interview by IADC selection Committee including professional with several competencies
4
  • Personal stability
  • Personal integrity
  • Communication abilities
  • Personal Commitment
  • Relationship to sending institution
  • “apostolic opportunity”/predictable impact

The evaluation process consists of several interrelated evaluation steps. The result of the selection process is an overall assessment of those steps.

BE ADVISED

The topics covered in these programs might cause stress and re-traumatization in people who have been affected by abuse. These programs are not a substitute for therapeutic treatment, which, in case of need, would rather be a prerequisite for the attendance of the respective program.

In case of a personal experience of any kind of abuse, it is advisable that any canonical or civil juridical process or procedure is settled before attending the course. In case of doubts or uncertainties, the IADC reserves the possibility to ask the applicants for more documents.

Download the Application Form in English and Spanish

By filling out the IADC application form, you declare to accept that data will be subject to processing activities by the Pontifical Gregorian University, in compliance with the above-mentioned Regulation and Legislative Decree 196/2003, as amended by Legislative Decree 101/2018 in Italy.