IKIGAI Verein zur Förderung von Kunst, Kultur und Bildung

IKIGAI Verein zur Förderung von Kunst, Kultur und Bildung (IKIGAI Association for the Promotion of Art, Culture and Education) shortly IKIGAI Vienna is a non-profit organization established in Vienna in 2022. The team of IKIGAI Vienna consist of musicians, artists, trainers, academics. IKIGAI is a Japanese concept that means your 'reason for being. ' 'Iki' in Japanese means 'life,' and 'gai' describes value or worth. Your ikigai is your life purpose or your bliss. It's what brings you joy and inspires you to get out of bed every day. 3 dots in the logo of our NGO symbolizes a concept on which IKIGAI Vienna was built on, these are art, culture and education. These three concepts connect each other with sticks, these sticks symbolize the activities and working areas of our association in an interdisciplinary aspect. Through these activities the logo is shaped of a triangular roof which is a space where various segments of society can gather ogether under this roof, especially those with disadvantaged backgrounds, and this roof helps them to discover their own IKIGAI and inspires them to go on. Aims of IKIGAI Vienna - to support the access of different segments of the society to education and employment opportunities through cultural, artistic, social, educational, sportive and scientific activities; - developing training models, programmes, methodologies and tools in the fields of culture, arts and education; - combat against youth unemployment; - to support lifelong learning; - to support cohesion and inclusion in the community; - to support skill development of young people, especially for new professions; - to support and disseminate volunteering activities; - supporting digitization and digital transformation of arts, culture and education.