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Balearic government honors Liz and Reinhard Mohn
The government of the Balearic Islands has recognized Liz and Reinhard Mohn for their commitment to promoting culture. Liz Mohn accepted the Gold Medal of the Balearic Islands from Francesc Antich i Oliver, president of the islands, before an audience of 1,500. The Mohns received the prize for establishing the Can Torró library in Alcudia and for their efforts to promote reading in Spain.
moreLiz Mohn is the vice-chair of the Bertelsmann Stiftung's Executive Board and its Board of Trustees. In addition, she has served as president of the Spain-based Fundación Bertelsmann since October 2005.
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Brussels - 25/02/2010
From Theory to Praxis: Realigning the EU's growth and sustainability strategy
On February 23rd, the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the World Future Council (WFC) jointly held the last out of a set of three debates in the European Parliament dealing with the issue of "Rethinking Well-being. How to keep Europe on the Sustainability Track." The panel series was hosted by three Members of the European Parliament: Rebecca Harms, Jo Leinen, and Sirpa Pietikäinen. At a first meeting in the middle of January participants had discussed the need to go beyond the current GDP-related growth paradigm and to develop a more comprehensive and sustainable understanding in which ways future economic models should contribute to human well-being. The second meeting focused on the question of how to increase the political impact of measurement tools aiming to capture and assess sustainable development in our changing world. During the final panel, the participants focused on possible implications of alternative concepts of well-being on the EU's future growth and sustainability strategy.
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Gütersloh - 10/02/2010
Three proposals for a new and more effective Lisbon strategy
The EU's Lisbon Agenda is now a thing of the past. At its summit tomorrow, Europe's heads of state and government will discuss the Union's new long-term growth strategy. A higher level of commitment will be required if it is to prove more successful than the now-defunct agenda.
Washington, DC - 08/02/2010
Financial Crisis: Lithuania Looks to High-Tech
Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius concluded on 5 February 2010 a five-day visit to the United States by speaking to a select gathering of World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), corporate and media representatives at the Bertelsmann Foundation North America. The prime minister, accompanied by Finance Minister Ingrida Simonyte, stressed his government's goal to create in Lithuania and throughout the Baltic region a high-tech service hub.
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Commission on the Black Sea
The second Policy Report is online: Security in the Black Sea Region
Regional tensions, natural resources and geopolitical rivalries make the Black Sea region a strategic but sensitive area. In the absence of cooperative structures able to contain conflict, security threats ranging from interstate conflicts to illegal trafficking have emerged. Mitat Çelikpala, Associate Professor of International Relations at TOBB Economy and Technology University in Ankara, is the author of the second of a series of four policy reports presented by the Commission on the Black Sea. Following Çelikpala, the region is politically, historically and geographically divided.
Project portraits
Bertelsmann Foundation North America
Established in 2008, the Bertelsmann Foundation North America represents the Bertelsmann Stiftung in the United States. It creates momentum for social change, is dedicated to promoting freedom for individuals within society and advances international understanding. It also serves as a bridge between Europe and the US.
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Youth and Work
With its "Youth and Work" project, the Bertelsmann Stiftung wants to help less qualified young people improve their vocational opportunities by developing new possibilities for entering and remaining in the job market. The project focuses on two main themes: the first aims to better prepare young people for the working world, and the second addresses modernizing the vocational training system.
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Future of Civil Society
If a society is to thrive, its citizens must be willing to get involved. Whether through service provision or communal action, civic engagement makes it possible for people to take part in a variety of ways. Through its projects, the Bertelsmann Stiftung wants to promote social participation and the further development of the nonprofit sector.
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Bertelsmann Stiftung International
The Brussels Office of the Bertelsmann Stiftung Bertelsmann Foundation North America
Recent Publication
Transformation Index 2010, englische Ausgabe
Comparing systematically the status of democracy and market economy on an international basis, the BTI provides comprehensive data on the quality of political management in 128 transition and developing countries from 2007 to 2009.
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Ageing and the German Economy
Until now, most studies of how demographics and economics are linked have limited themselves to the ways that changes in a population's overall size influence economic development. As the new publication demonstrates, such undertakings have underestimated the economic consequences of societal ageing.
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Elections in Iraq
Iraqi voters have elected a new parliament. Laurie Dundon and Christian-Peter Hanelt of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, the authors of our current "spotlight europe," look at the elections from an American-European perspective. They analyze the internal situation in Iraq, and emphasize that the EU and the US need to work together in order to help Iraq to develop into a stable country.
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