CONSORZIO KAIROS

KAIROS is a consortium of social cooperatives working to empower and promote Italian local communities and territories. Since its foundation in 2001, the consortium offers services and create relations with full respect for the dignity of people, their history, their work. KAIROS aims to enhance social inclusion and valorize local communities across the country supporting the sharing of a non-profit culture and values and generating virtuous solidarity networks. KAIROS acts as a creative lab in which solidarity and local empowerment actions combine with new ideas, innovations and refurbished relations with distant realities from profit and non-profit sectors. The consortium deals with different vulnerable targets such as minors, young people aged 18 – 30, psychomotor disability, elderly, migrants, socio-economic disadvantaged adults as evidence of an experience now rooted in the territorial context of reference. Some of the social inclusion activities promoted in the local communities are: - active labor policies; - community empowerment actions; - international exchanges across Europe for young people; - construction of social innovation projects; - educational and training activities. Kairos represents the ideal intermediary between cooperatives, institutions, companies, and associations for the realization and promotion of complex projects in social inclusion and solidarity fields. The consortium is based on flexible and agile structures to support the affiliated entities in their local actions. Kairos has +5 employees and +50 external collaborators and experts.