KaosPilot School in Århus

You don’t have to spend much time at the KaosPilot school in Århus to realize that the school is more than just a three-year Bachelor education in creative business design and social innovation. It is also an education with a clearly defined set of values that runs all through the education.

At a major seminar for the students, colleagues, board of directors and external partners in 2001 – the so-called POP-seminar held every 2 or 3 years – it was decided that the school’s most important values be identified. Six basic values and attitudes were outlined as indispensable to the educational program. They are:

1. Playful - It has to be motivational, creative and constructive to be at the KaosPilots.

2. Real world - the students and staff have to work with real problems, real people and real conflicts.

3. Streetwise - the school must never be out of touch with what is happening at street level in our society.

4. Risk-taking - the program and the staff must possess the will to be brave and take risks.

5. Balanced - the school must strive for the right dynamic and balance between bodyand soul, between form and content and, not least, between human, timeand economic resources.

6. Compassionate - human compassion and social responsibility must be the hallmarks of the school.

The formulation of these values proved to be an identity breakthrough for The KaosPilots and serves today as a quality filter for all decisions, projects, employment, arrangements, etc. The six values have proven to be resistant to the discussions arising now and then about supplementing or replacing them. So far, the students and staff have held on to these values as the school’s entirely unique and indispensable core values.