- Supporting the development of the community involves disadvantaged groups within mixed ages
- Awareness on Sports and Art as the tools for the empowerment of society
- Outreach sportive activities to the most vulnerable target groups
- Networking with existing inclusion and sports organizations
IKOS invests in empowerment and involvement of disadvantaged young people and kids who obtain soft skills, self-confident and shaping at their future with hope via art and sports. In order to reach the aims of IKOS, the activities have been run in 4 main fields: Sport Studies, Art & Culture Studies, Youth Work and
About Sport Studies
Sport is an effective tool we use for social empowerment. Within sport field, we aim to increase the usage of sport as a tool to combat with social inequalities and social exclusion problems in our societies. IKOS focus on conducting Education Through Sport methodologies in the works of NGOs and sport organizations. Education based sportive activities with hidden agenda are a major part of our sport studies in our works with refugees and immigrants, individuals with disability, women in NEET, socio-economically disadvantaged young people and seniors.
In the last 5 years, we have been cooperating with Turkish Basketball Federation, Turkish Tennis Federation, Bayrampaşa Municipality, Bilgi University Sport Management Department, TED (Tennis Fence Alpinism) Sports Club, Turkish Sports Foundation, Syrian Forum, Turkish National Olympic Committee, PPI (Peace Players International), Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and Sport Istanbul. Since 2019, our organization is conducting education activities and awareness raising seminars to underline the role of sport to promote UN Sustainable Development Goals and its contribution to 2030 Agenda.
