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The acronym CRE.S.T.E. is an Italian word that means "ridges", "peaks".

CRE.S.T.E.'s aim is to help people to improve their cognitive skills so to allow them to develop the potentialities of their mind and to achieve the desired goals.

Sometimes thinking is like climbing a mountain. A side of the mountain requires the use of creative-innovative skills, the other of strategic-analytical skills.

Who's climbing along the ridge has to shift from a side of the mind to the other, to overcome the different kinds of obstacles that he or she encounter and to apply specific cognitive tools to reach the peak.

CRE.S.T.E. devises assessment and training materials and procedures - addressed to individuals, companies and institutions - to empower planning, problem-solving, inventing and decision-making.

CRE.S.T.E. proposes courses which can be delivered in presence, at distance and in a blended form. Courses are customised according to the trainees' needs. Also assessment and personal selection interventions are arranged so to match the customer's expectations.

CRE.S.T.E. was created thanks to the overlap between the Cognitive Psychology Laboratory and the Service of Learning and Educational Psychology (SPAEE) of the Department of Psychology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milano.

The Cognitive Psychology Laboratory provides CRE.S.T.E. with the research tools and findings which can support and validate the testing and training methods employed. SPAEE provides CRE.S.T.E. with the expertise and the learning settings useful to implement the training courses.