Center for culture and activity
Kulturgyngen is a cultural activity center in the heart of Aarhus.The organization is a social-economic enterprise, offering education, jobtraining and projects.
Kulturgyngen runs the Gyngen – Café, Restaurant and music venue as well as the advertisement agency Kultursats.
The keywords that encapsule Kulturgyngens work are:
- Responsibility
- Equality
- Broadness of mind
- Development
- Networking
Responsibility: Kulturgyngen as an enterprise has a social responsibility towards employees and the local community. Employees are involved as much as possible in the development of the enterprise, securing a sustainable development.
We are working consciously helping the employees of Kulturgyngen to take charge of their progress, both professionally and socially, thus becoming a greater part of society and influencing the development in a more humane and unity-oriented manner.
Equality: Everyone, regardless of personal resources, professional ability, religion, skincolour, political standing etc. must be treated equally, individually and with respect.
Broadness of mind: Kulturgyngen wants to embrace everyone. The goal is to make room for the more vulnerable groups of the labour market, also those who find it difficult to interact with society.
Development: The development of the enterprise is bases on a sustainable strategy, ensuring a healthy earth.
Networking: Kulturgyngen wants to create local and global networks, as well as network for the individual. Networking is viewed as an important tool to break isolation and speed up development.
In our daily work we experience, that all people have ressources/abilities that can be used for both personal developement as well as working for a common goal.
At Kulturgyngen every employee has a function and a responsibility. By recognizing your own efforts and capabilities, the motivation to get back to the labour market is increased dramatically, as well as helping the personal developement.
Being an employee at Kulturgyngen improves qualifications and motivation in relation to the labour market. Wit this in mind our employments are based on the professional and personal qualifications of each individual. We combine work, education and courses.
At Kulturgyngen we engage approximately 60-70 people in the daily activities: 10 full-time employees, people in subsidized employment and individual job training, participants in activation programmes, kitchen and office clerk trainees, people on community service and work experience, and a great number of volunteers.
