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Newsletter #11

12/2011

Dear Young Leaders and Friends of the BMW Foundation,

Christmas is coming, and we are gratefully looking back on a year full of inspiration. We met some of you for the first time in Cape Town, Baden-Baden or London. Many others we have met again, for example during our 3rd World Young Leaders Forum in Buenos Aires. We look back on intriguing insights from our various projects and conferences such as the Poesis Fellowship program or the 10th Expert Conference on International Relations. We had speakers from all different sectors and walks of life in our Fireside Talks and Lecture Series, and also during this year's 17th European Forum Berlin.

We hope you enjoyed all the activity as much as we did, and gained and developed many new insights, relationships and collaborations. We wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Your BMW Foundation Team
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News from the BMW Foundation

Young Leaders Forums

Immersing oneself in new topics, sharing experiences and assuming social responsibility – this is what the BMW Foundation’s Young Leaders Forums are all about.

We are still filled with the experience of the 3rd World Young Leaders Forum in Buenos Aires. We have uploaded some additional material from the workshops, site visits and roundtables. You may find some impressions of the Forum in the short videos we shot during the four days. The first one deals with the issue of microlending for worker-owned factories, the second one provides an overview of the forum. You will find a third one in the Young Leaders section.

In 2012, we will invite Young Leaders from all different sectors to a total of four forums.
The first event will be the Europe Asia Young Leaders Forum. Marking the forum’s 10th anniversary, Young Leaders from Asia and Europe will meet in Jakarta on March 29-
April 1. The 16th Transatlantic Forum will be held in Berlin on June 29-July 1. The “German-Russian Dialogue Baden-Baden,” another Young Leaders conference, will take place on October 8-14. Finally, on condition that there will be a stable political development, the BMW Foundation will bring together Young Leaders from Europe and the Arab world in the Arab European Young Leaders Forum in Cairo on October 27-30. more...

On November 29 we hosted the closing ceremony of the 3rd International Diplomats Programme at our Berlin office. The International Diplomats Programme, a joint initiative of the Federal Foreign Office and the BMW Foundation, and organized with support from the German Council on Foreign Relations, once more invited twelve young diplomats from the Middle East, North Africa, South, East- and South-East Asia to experience Germany from a variety of perspectives in a year-long program. The 4th International Diplomats Programme will start in March next year. more...

International Relations

You can still watch our livestream videos of the 17th European Forum Berlin on November 10–11, 2011, which dealt with “Europe in the Global Arena – New Challenges for the Economy and Politics.” more...

The 10th Expert Conference on International Relations on October 20-21, 2011, dealt with "The Big Fatigue – Europe’s Apathy in the Wake of the Financial and Debt Crisis." The gathered experts reflected on the global crisis and its effect on the European unification process, and discussed the crucial question of whether Europe's integration can pick up steam again or if we are already set on the road to renationalization. We will publish the report in January 2012. more...

Re-Thinking Society

Poiesis Fellow Jesse LeCavalier talks in an interview about his work in the "Infrapolitics" project group of Poiesis. Jesse is trained as an architect, with degrees from Brown University and the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree on retail logistics and urbanism at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. Recently, his project group “Infrapolitics” undertook a field trip to New York and created the publication MILGRAM. In our interview Jesse talks about Google, political imaginaries and about infrastructure that is changing our lives. more...

“Experience is not inherited – everyone must do it alone"– this insight by Kurt Tucholsky does not always have to apply. If experiences are collected, they can be shared and passed on for the benefit of others. This way, practical and empirical knowledge can help to choose solutions and approaches for reaching goals more quickly and for avoiding impasses. Ashoka Globalizer, to be held in Munich on January 20-21, 2011, is a forum where international Ashoka Fellows and leading social entrepreneurs with a high innovation potential meet with entrepreneurs experienced in globalization. more...

BMW Foundation Young Leaders Awards

Until December 31, you can still take part in our 2012 Young Leaders Awards competition, which honors the best ideas and outstanding initiatives for the common good from within our Young Leaders Network. If you are involved in an interesting project, please check out the application information on our website. more....
For more information, contact Barbara Müller (barbara.mueller@bmw-stiftung.de).

Other Activities

Markus Hipp, Executive Officer BMW Stiftung, participated in a panel discussion together with the presidents of the United Arab Emirates, Mongolia and Mali at the Fourth United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Forum in Doha on the topic of "How does Cultural Diversity Matter to Development? The Missing Link ." The panel was moderated by famous economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. In the course of the Forum, the BMW Group and the UN Alliance of Civilizations awarded the first "Intercultural Innovation Award." Find out more about the award or watch the whole panel online. more...

Upcoming Events

January 17, 2012, 4th Lecture on Social Innovation in Munich, Hourvash Pourkian, founder and director, Kulturbrücke Hamburg, on "Inner Internationality". more...

January 20-21, 2012, Ashoka Globalizer Summit in Munich. more...

January 25, 2012, Launch of the Neukölln Citizens' Organization in Berlin. more...

January 25, 2012, Talk on Rock Your Life! in Munich. more...

February 9, 2012, 4th Fireside Talk on Corporate Citizenship in Munich. more...

February 15, 2012, Summit Lecture CESifo in Munich (more information soon)

Young Leaders Community

Log on to our web-based Young Leaders Community, join our Young Leaders groups on Facebook, Xing and LinkedIn, follow us on Twitter, and have a look at our YouTube channel to network and get updated with news and events from our Young Leaders Community.

Litovski NL 12/11

During the 3rd World Young Leaders Forum we produced a video on the Earth Security Initiative (ESI), which was founded by Alejandro Litovsky. Please find a short presentation of his approach together with some thoughts of two fellow Young Leaders and Jürgen Chrobog, former state secretary and chairman of the board of directors at the BMW Foundation, here...

News From and About Our Young Leaders

Our Young Leader Andrea Armeni from the Gaia Amazon Fund provided us with the great news that UNESCO recognized the culture of the Jaguar Shamans of Yuruparí, from the Pira Paraná region of the Colombian Amazon, as intangible heritage of humanity. Watch the video Gaia Amazonas produced for its application. more...

Alvaro Rodríguez, co-founder and managing partner of IGNIA Partners and one of our speakers at the 3rd World Young Leaders Forum, has been listed on the Forbes Impact 30 list. It is the first time that Forbes lists social entrepreneurs. more...

Magic Bus came up with a creative fundraising idea: Now Mumbai can log on and kick a virtual football, making the city the largest football team ever. You can join the game; a donation of Rs 300 will shoot the ball across 2 meters. They hope to cover 83,000 meters (that’s enough to help 17,000 children). Not impossible in a city of 20 million! Find out more at www.kickforchange.in.

Get involved: If you would like to share any news about your current activities or engagement for the common good with the Young Leaders Community, please contact Sven Stegemann (sven.stegemann@bmw-stiftung.de).

Marketplace

The BMW Foundation will sponsor two new project positions in the context of the Young Leaders for Sustainability program. The Young Leaders for Sustainability program (YLS) of the Collective Leadership Institute builds young professionals’ and junior managers’ professional expertise in the field of sustainability in a unique combination of training and practical experience.
The first project is supervised by Ashoka Germany and Ashoka Turkey, and deals with the implementation of social innovations as drivers of societal sustainability. The second project is supervised by iq consult in Berlin, and focuses on the creation of "Social Impact Labs" in several German cities. Read about the projects and how to apply. more..

LGT Venture Philanthropy is starting a Social Business Accelerator in five South East Asian countries together with 5 partners in 2012. Therefore they are currently intensively recruiting iCats candidates who would want to stay for 11 months on the ground with their partners. If you know anyone in your networks (including yourself) who might be interested in these extremely interesting positions, please feel free to recommend them. Everyone who wants to apply should send their résumé to Joan Yao: joan.yao@lgtvp.com more...

The G20 Challenge on Inclusive Business Innovation is a global search for businesses with innovative, scalable, and commercially viable ways of working with low-income people in developing countries. If you represent a successful business with an innovative way of working with individuals at the base of the pyramid, we encourage you to apply. more...

Get involved: If you need expertise for your NGO or project or if you are willing to share your expertise (for example with our Give & Gain participants), please contact Sven Stegemann (sven.stegemann@bmw-stiftung.de).

Upcoming Events

We were happy to learn that our Young Leader Ulf Dörner will continue to organize the Young Leaders Meeting in Munich at Falk's Bar/Hotel Bayerischer Hof in 2012. If you plan to attend, please contact him in January 2012 (ulfdoe@aol.com). He will also keep you posted through our Facebook Page as soon as he has made the necessary planning.

Get involved: If you have any events you would like to share with the Young Leaders Network, please contact Sven Stegemann (sven.stegemann@bmw-stiftung.de).

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