KaosPilots

KaosPilots
Type International school of entrepreneurship, creativity, and leadership.
Established 1991
Principal Christer Windeløv-Lidzélius
Administrative staff
 16
Students +100
Location Aarhus, Denmark
Website http://www.kaospilot.dk

Kaospilot (lit.: Chaos Pilot) is an alternative business school located in Aarhus, Denmark, right at the harbor. Kaospilot is an international education which yearly accepts 35-37 national and international students, with a minimum age of 21. It was founded by Uffe Elbæk in 1991 and today is funded by the European Union and student fees.[1][2] Kaospilot programs teach in the fields of leadership, business design, process design and project design. The educational philosophy focuses on personal development, value-based entrepreneurship, creativity and social innovation. The Kaospilot program was nominated by Business Week in 2007 as a top Design School and has inspired schools in Australia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and The Netherlands.[3]

The education was in Danish until August 2005 as the students were mainly from the Scandinavian countries. Now the official language at Kaospilot is in English, the most commonly spoken secondary language in the region.

In the summer of 2013 the Kaospilot school moved from their old address in Mejlgade to the neighborhood Filmbyen.[1][2]

Programme

The Kaospilot curriculum is approved by EQUIS accredited Aarhus School of Business. The programme takes 3 years, divided into phases in place of classes or subjects. The approach is team based with teams starting, studying and graduating together and every year the school accepts around 37 students who together constitute a team.

The curriculum is divided in four disciplines: Creative Business Design, Creative Leadership Design, Creative Project Design and Creative Process Design with each discipline divided into sub-components. The pedagogical platform relies on opportunity-based-pedagogy (i.e. to see, understand, create and act upon opportunities) and is rooted in many different approaches such as reflection over action, appreciative inquiry, systems thinking, positive psychology action learning, coaching and mentoring.[4]

Timeline

1991: August 5: The first students – an all-Danish team – walk through Kaospilot’s doors.

1992: The school launches its first slogan: The Best School for the World.

1992: In conjunction with the UN Decade of Culture the school is awarded the UNESCO prize for an especially noticeable educational initiative.

1992: Team 1 takes over the centre of Aarhus during the annual Aarhus Festival. Their Street Agenda project sets new standards for how art and culture can engage the average citizen.

1993: First graduation! Team 1 receive their graduation certificates in the Aarhus Music Hall.

1993: Team 2 starts – the team includes students from all of Scandinavia, with the aim of reflecting the school’s Scandinavian ambitions, cultural roots and values.

1994: Søren Langager of the Danish University of Education presents an evaluation of the Kaospilots at an event in Rundetårn, Copenhagen.

1994: Half of the school is lost to a fire started by a stray New Year’s Eve firework.

1994: Travelling on the Kronborg ferry, Team 2 dock at Copenhagen, Helsinki, Riga, Tallinn, Stockholm and elsewhere to promote Copenhagen as the 1996 City of Culture.

1996: CNN interviews the school’s principal, Uffe Elbæk.

1996: The school opens its first outpost in San Francisco (1996–2000). Team 3 complete their entire second year there.

1997: Education is transferred from the Ministry of Culture to the Ministry of Education.

1997: POP1, our first strategy and vision seminar, featuring all students, staff and board members. Basic perspectives on the organization and life in general are identified.

1997: Team 3 complete their USA project, whose customer is the founder and CEO Emeritus of VISA International, Dee Hock.

1998: Uffe Elbæk’s account of the school, its educational programme and its environment is published.

1999: Team 5 complete a Scandinavian PR-campaign for Apple’s Mac Powerbooks in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

2000: The Kaospilots set up the business club Inspiration Lounge for leading Scandinavian companies.

2000: The school establishes its second outpost (2000–2002), this time in Durban, South Africa.

2000: The new slogan Change the Game is chosen, underlining the school’s desire to contribute to a more culturally, environmentally and humanly sustainable world.

2001: The Danish edition of Uffe Elbæk’s book Kaospilot A–Z is published by the school’s own press, Kaos Communication.

2001: Tenth anniversary party in Ridehuset, Aarhus, featuring guests from five continents.

2001: Our second strategy and vision seminar, POP2, identifies the school’s six basic values: playful, real-world, streetwise, risk-taking, balanced and compassionate.

2001: Thanks to a graduation project by a Kaospilot student Tibet’s national soccer team come to Scandinavia to play their first ever international match.

2002: Kaospilots awarded the regional entrepreneurial prize Janteknuserprisen.

2003: The Danish government stops funding the Kaospilots. The Tuborg Foundation steps in and grants the Kaospilots €210,000 to cover its finances up to summer 2005.

2004: The Danish Government restores its support for the Kaospilots.

2004: Team 11 – the first team to be financed exclusively with private money – begins their education.

2005: The Norwegian company Synnøve Finden ASA sponsors the Kaospilots, securing the financing of the school until January 2006.

2006: Uffe Elbæk resign as principal to become the new chairman of the international board. A new principal and a new CEO take over the day-to-day running of the school.

2006: Our willingness to change and take risks and our ability to predict trends means that the Kaospilots is named as one of the most innovative public institutions in Denmark at the 2006 Innovation Cup.

2006: As part of a new strategic agenda, Kaospilots introduces a new name, a new logo, new focus areas and a new, international board.

2007: A new board and management is installed. Ulrik Merrild replaces Uffe Elbæk as Chairman and Christer Lidzélius is appointed Director of the Kaospilots.

2007: Kaospilot International is one of the top nominated designs for the 2007 INDEX:AWARD, the world’s biggest design award.

2007: The first Creative Leadership Fundamentals course – a course for leading yourself and others in creative processes.

2008: Team 1 begins at Kaospilots Stockholm.

2008: The new modular curriculum is put into action with Team 15.

2009: Christer Windeløw-Lidzélius and 3rd-year student Nana Dall go to Korea to work with the Korean Arts and Culture Education Service (KACES).

2009: Nine Kaospilots put together a conference at the Danish parliament.

2010: Kaospilots arrives on Wikipedia.

2011: Kaospilot students act as process leaders, working with 100 students from VIA University College to design an education for the future.

2011: 20th anniversary! Two decades of Kaospilots history is celebrated in a new book, 20/20.

2012: Team 17 set off for their outpost in Bogotá.

2012: A new Kaospilot school is opened in Bern, Switzerland. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Story" (in Danish). KaosPilots. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 "KaosPiloter" (in Danish). Den Gamle By. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "The-talent-hunt" (in Danish). Business Week. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Student PRogram Aarhus" (in Danish). KaosPiloter. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  5. ↑ http://www.kaospilot.dk/history/. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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Coordinates: 56°09′04″N 10°12′48″E / 56.151098°N 10.213370°E / 56.151098; 10.213370

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