The ICAD Foundation, active since 2013, mainly in the area of development assistance implemented outside of Poland, took steps in 2018 to expand the field of its activity.

New organization development paths have been outlined, based on existing solutions, experience and achievements, but located in a new area of activity.

To this end, the Foundation’s statute was expanded to include further goals and ways of achieving them were defined. The priority assumption of the changes was also to increase the activity of the ICAD Foundation in the Republic of Poland in the field of global education, pro-ecological and pro-civic activities as well as in the field of culture and protection of cultural heritage.

In these broadly defined thematic fields, the ICAD Foundation wants to focus on issues related to action to increase participation in public / civic life of groups at risk of exclusion, omission or discrimination.

We want to expand the accessibility of cultural heritage objects for people with various types of disabilities and create comprehensive and innovative ways to solve problems accompanying this issue, expand the availability of cultural education and historical education, and to activate and educate cultural institutions about the need to expand their program to include events for people with disabilities.

An important issue for us is also the need to expand the availability of cultural and historical education offer outside of large cultural centres and in rural areas. We see the need to collect, digitize and archive the accounts of living witnesses of the past regarding historical events, social and cultural life, and organize meetings and workshops with them as a way of historical, social and cultural education both in large centres and in small towns and villages.

The presence of the ICAD Foundation in the country also means active involvement in information and social campaigns as well as all educational activities aimed at raising civic competences and increasing citizens participation in public life. The thematic areas close to us are society, culture and ecology, and we want to direct our message and commitment to all social groups.

PROJECTS

2018 LIGHT CHANGERS COURSE. HOW TO TEACH GLOBAL EDUCATION?

2019 THREE BIG CULTURES AND … ONE SMALL CITY. “ORAL HISTORY” METHOD WORKSHOPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN KĘPNO.