The Academy’s assumptions, objectives and methods of activities (the abstract from the Articles of Association)

The Academy is a voluntary, self-governing and permanent association of the non-commercial objectives, established to perform and support sociocreative and culturcreative activities, to shape active attitudes in social life, to contribute to develop a living and varied social tissue which allows for complete and satisfactory development of an individual, a group and a community.

The Academy’s objectives are:

1. creating shared foundation for sociocracy on the bases of friendly space to exchange ideas and activities;
2. conducting psychological, social and educational activities (extending the awareness of psychological and social phenomena);
3. creating and promoting valuable sociocreative phenomena;
4. supporting the nongovernment organizations in a technical, training, and informative way;
5. popularising and promoting humanistic, ecological and deeply democratic social attitudes;
6. supporting the solutions of existing conflicts and work on the lack of communication between the social structural units;
7. conducting scientific and research activities respecting the rule of unity of all phenomena and uniqueness of each system;
8. popularizing and preparing meetings of different societies including intercultural contacts in Bielsko-Biała and outside;
9. activities connected with the European Integration in all possible social life areas;
10. arising the awareness of belonging to the whole world (noticing macroworld phenomena in local space of a human entity and a community);
11. helping people and families because of:
• poverty
• orphanhood
• homelessness
• unemployment
• social exclusion and discrimination
• disability
• enduring illnesses
• alcoholism and drug addiction
• helplessness in protective and educational situations and running the household, especially in
  incomplete families and families with many children
• difficulties in adopting to life after leaving a penalty unit
• natural disasters or ecological disasters
• needs to protect motherhood and families with many children;
12. cooperation with national authority, self-government units, and institutions with regard to meeting
    objectives, the specified in the above items (items 1-10);
13. cooperation with international organizations and institutions with regard to meeting objectives, the
    specified in the above items (items 1-10).

The Academy is meeting its objectives by:

1. organizing conferences, seminars, talks, scientific sessions, discussion meetings and other events;
2. running educational activities (training courses, lectures, courses and workshops) and publishing activities;
3. establishing a centre of information and documentation to reinforce meeting the statutory objectives;
4. promoting partnerships between the non-governmental sector, and local and regional self-governments, and economic entities;
5. expressing opinions on public cases, and especially in cases regarding crucial activities conducted by national and self-government authorities, at local and central level and which are connected with the statutory objectives;
6. submitting motions and opinions addressed to appropriate institutions, authority, offices and courts in cases connected with the statutory objectives;
7. cooperating with persons, institutions and organisations which execute similar objectives;
8. joining the activities to organise events or projects initiated by other institutions and institutions executing similar objectives;
9. belonging to other national and international organisations which execute similar objectives;
10. doing tasks commissioned by national units and self-government authorities;
11. counteracting the social exclusion and discrimination;
12. getting involved in establishing ethical rules and constant care to follow the rules;
13. acting for the sake of its members by supporting their development and acquiring further qualifications
14. other activities aiming at executing the statutory objectives.

The Academy’s activities are conducted for the benefit of the entire community.