The Association of the Creative Initiatives "ę"

We have been conducting social projects all over Poland since 2002. Our method is education and elicitation of youth by art. During artistic activities [film, photographical, theatrical and journalist workshops] young people discover their willingness to act, they find their passions and learn the creative thinking.

After a few months, the participants of our workshops carry out their own projects, they write applications for grants, they gain money to realize them. These activities are the best school of enterprise – they raise aspirations to educate oneself, to accept new challenges and they teach abilities that are useful in the adult life.

Since 2002 we have reached 200 towns and villages with our activities and 6000 people have taken part in our projects.

Idea: we want to create a world, where people passionately act for themselves and the others.

Mission: we help people to discover their passions, we inspire young people, cultural animators, nongovernmental organization workers, teachers and artists to act and we show them how to realize their ideas in the cultural sphere.

The rules of functioning: by our work...

• we answer the others’ needs
• we develop our own passions
• we consider group-work to be a long-term process
• we create the surrounding that favours activity
• we teach responsibility and self-reliance
• we look for supporters – mentors and partners – we benefit from their knowledge and experience

E-mail: biuro@e.org.pl