CEPI is a Swedish National centre, which started in 2007.  
The centre is financed by the Swedish government and the Swedish Board of Health and Welfare and the  main mission is to initiate and carry out research in the field of psychosocial interventions and life situation in the community for people with a severe mental illness.
 
Other aims and tasks within the field are to:

• Initiate and maintain a national network of researchers
• Promote dissemination of research
• Be a source of information for users, staff and researchers
• Promote an international exchange and collaboration in scientific studies
• Arrange seminars and national conferences
• Support education and further training of mental health staff
• Initiate and participate in implementation of evidence based psychosocial interventions
• Have a user orientation in research and implementation issues