Goals:

• To give access to students of modest means but with talent and leadership potential to take up graduate studies;
• To facilitate the self-empowerment of grassroots leaders, families and communities;
• To make ASI a converging place for leaders of diverse backgrounds (cultural, religious and national affiliation, race, gender, and levels of education ) to reflect on the implementation of human rights and corresponding responsibilities;
• To heighten the consciousness of people to existential realities as a take-off point for action and advocacy;
• To fully implement its long-term programs of Co-Creating Bio-Regional Communities;
• To facilitate the establishment of Basic Ecclesial Community Cultures in various dioceses in the Philippines;
• To develop doing research from an existential phenomenological perspective.
• To develop an integral ecological life-style through education and the nurturance of creation or socially engaged eco-spirituality. Through learning modalities, both face-to-face encounters and virtual on-line teaching and learning system, to instil the values of common good, social justice, principle of subsidiarity, richness of differentiation, solidarity and communion.
• To instil the human spirit in digital modalities of encounter and thus contribute to human flourishing.