Projects Department
At KAIOS, our methodology allows us to establish a dynamic between the individual and the collective, because to change society you have to organize as a group, it is not enough to be conscious, you have to cooperate, consult and act according to the priorities of each individual and the group.
We therefore start from the personal realities of people and their experiences, through the critical analysis of these experiences, the participants question the context which led them to realize such inequality or social injustice. To give meaning to our projects, we balance the societal themes that concern our audiences, the values that bring us together and the actions to take to act together.
The thematic issues identified are:
• Human rights
• Social Justice
• Healthy eating and sustainable development
• The fight against discrimination
The values that drive us are:
• Solidarity
• Gender equality
• Critical mind
• Empathy
These issues and its values are translated into actions at the same time :
• Collectives
• Educational
• Practical and creative
• Stimulating and sensitizing
Our Competencies
To develop our socio-cultural projects and activities with our audiences, we have developed 3 major areas of intervention :
All our activities set up with the participants are based on a learning methodology that allows a transfer of skills to the participant-actors in order to allow them to free themselves and emancipate themselves individually and collectively. Within our projects we learn to learn by educating through action, this action necessarily passes through an awareness in order to be able to act. Lifelong education is a continuous lifelong learning methodology that offers greater inclusion when we are faced with vulnerable populations with few opportunities.
By implementing our activities with the participants we hope to achieve the changes they all aspire to, namely:
1. Awareness or conscientization,
2. Allow individuals to do things they did not dare before through emancipation initiatives,
3. Increase their ability to act.
4. Take action through the project.
Indeed, our activities make it possible to raise awareness at first but have the objective of causing a change in their lives (an impact), by giving them the power to act, because before they were limited in action, to do things which makes it possible to orient them in a transformation of social relationships and relationships with themselves. They thus build their own personalities and become:
SUBJECTS – ACTORS
1. The learning process of intercultural dialogue
We live in a society made up of micro-societies (communities), the people of Brussels come from community diversity and have brought a cultural heritage which has composed and shaped the multiculturalism of this European capital without necessarily giving rise to interculturality. That is to say, we live with several cultures but we do not necessarily interact with others.<br /> This axis aims to develop the expression of citizens from cultural minorities via active animation techniques within a process of learning intercultural dialogue. These citizens are young adults who do not necessarily have the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas. Indeed, the complexity of daily life, social exclusion, the phenomenon of gentrification, the weight of the external gaze which has become increasingly heavy have accentuated withdrawal into oneself, to the point where some prefer to stay in their neighborhoods, or move around group, among themselves and only hang out with individuals from their socio-cultural environment (communities/restricted circle of friends).<br /> Projects within this axis will promote the implementation of non-formal activities created by participants for participants in order to deconstruct terms that are still misunderstood such as: discrimination, racism, stereotypes and prejudices while developing skills intercultural in order to enable the construction of a dialogue in a multicultural environment while taking into account intercultural dynamics.<br /> However, it will necessarily involve knowing oneself and therefore having a citric reflection of one's own identities and cultures and realizing this, and also becoming aware of the diversity of the culture of others.<br /> Activities based on active socio-cultural animation techniques constitute the bulk of the creation and production workshops, using educational tools accessible to our audience in an inclusive and participatory manner. These will be workshops focused on active participation using the experiences of our audience (actors) as a basis for analysis but also for solutions. We will carry out workshops in the form of scenarios, simulations and role plays. Certain activities will also focus on the analysis of reports and/or documentary videos on situations of economic (employment), gender (sexism), worship (religious), and racial discrimination.
2. Healthy and sustainable food
Today, social levels between citizens are marked by economic disparity, and the current challenge is to be able to consume while respecting the dilemma of quality of life and the use of a minimum of natural resources in order to reduce polluting waste. and toxic. In general, this is about sustainable consumption. Faced with this, consumers of all social classes are faced with organic, local seasonal food, vegetarian and vegan food, where everyone defends their sector to define the basis of food hygiene. We also talk about our involvement in the environment and the effects of our consumption on this environment: global warming, zero waste, circular economy ... all these terms are not easy to understand for underprivileged populations (parents, adults including school level is low, so-called illiterate people, people of immigrant origin, young people dropping out of school). The “Healthy and Sustainable Food” program are educational and unifying projects. It brings together a Trans-generational population around an element that concerns us all: what do we eat every day and how? Through practical workshops and a language of proximity, beneficiaries will learn to make weekly menus with a shopping list that avoids overconsumption and respect for budgets, which promotes zero waste: learn to know the daily needs to avoid waste. Understand the different eating patterns.
3. International mobility (participation, non-formal education and citizenship)
International mobility activities and projects allow beneficiaries to develop with the KAIOS team all the necessary preparation phases in order to be able to include members in a dynamic of active participation allowing them to stimulate their commitment, their solidarity, their reflection, their attitudes, their behavior and their knowledge according to themes linked to societal issues both locally and internationally. These exchanges are co-constructed with partners also using continuing education as an inclusive and transformative learning methodology. International mobility allows participants to confront their ideas and thoughts outside of their comfort zones with other populations. This immersion in elsewhere allows a self-critique of our values in the environment in which we evolve daily. These projects stimulate self-criticism and develop collective consciousness and partnerships.
Therefore, to support its international focus in the medium and long term, KAIOS is accredited in the KA1-YOU key action of the European Erasmus + program (2021-2027).
