leonardo european corporate learning award 2015
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L E O N A R D O European Corporate
Learning Award
www.leonardo-award.eu
Leonardo Transfer Meeting and Festive Ceremony September 14, 2015
Hotel Kameha Grand Bonn, Germany
Young Leonardo Laureates 2015 Teemu Arina, Finland: "Humanity in Digitization"
Claudia Suhov, Romania: "Trans-Generational Learning"Christoph Brosius, Germany: "Humor Energized Learning"
Dr. Thieu Besselink, Netherlands: "Wisely Smart"Dale J. Stephens, USA: "Education Hacker"
The International UNESCO Commission, under the chair of the first Leonardo Award winner Prof. Dr. Jacques Delors, called in its final report "Education for the 21st Century" the ability of learning "our inner hidden treasure". The re-port deals with cultural education, the relationship of edu-cation to democracy, social work processes, the world of work and the development of science and research.
Education is not a panacea, but it is one of the most im-portant tools available for a more comprehensive and harmonious nature of human development: It can help overcome poverty, exclusion, ignorance, oppression and war. A strong international cooperation in education is ne-cessary!
Jacques Delors and his commission have highlighted this in a four-pillar model of learning:
1. Learning to acquire knowledge: Requires the ability to learn and requires concentration, power and memo-ry. That is, learning how to learn in order to benefit from the opportunities offered by lifelong learning.
2. Learning to do: Requires a combination of skills, indi-vidually composed of qualifications in the strict sense and acquired through technical and vocational training as well as social skills, like teamwork, initiative and a willingness to take risks.
3. Learning to live together and learning to live with others: This is probably the most important form of learning in relation to the discovery of others and their
opinions on possible joint life goals. It is essential to develop an understanding of others as well as to de-tect mutual global dependencies through joint projects and strategies of conflict resolution! This is necessary in order to understand others and to work with them to achieve common goals.
4. Learning to be: Education should contribute as a fun-damental principle of universal development of each individual, e.g. the body and mind, intelligence, sensi-tivity, perception, personal responsibility and spiritual values. Everyone should be able to think independently and critically and to make their own judgments, espe-cially in view of the UNESCO’s fear that the world is dehumanized by the technical changes.
The foundation for this must be a broad basic education, which has to convey especially the ability to lifelong lear-ning. All companies are required to work to ensure that none of the talents that lie dormant like a hidden treasure in every person is lost.
Lifelong learning is primarily the development of the crea-tive potential of the whole personality and not only adapt to a changing world of work.
Jacques Delors` message forced us in 2010 to estab-lish a European Learning Award, the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award.
It requires, in addition to training initiatives and educatio-nal innovation in Europe, life models with exemplary com-mitment, with brave and clear visions.
Lifelong learning – the key for the 21st century
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With the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award personalities are honored, who initiated and implemen-ted "lighthouse" projects in this spirit, who have rende-red special services and merits to education in Europe and thus serve as an orientation mark, as role models, as groundbreaking with great importance for others.
Thus, the exchange between thought leaders in business on the one hand with society and politics on the other side will be connected.
The overall task of a European Education Award is to high-light interdisciplinary, holistic, culturally creative initiatives to identify new ways and to show us how education can become more efficient so that we can meet the challenges of the future.
Conclusion:Education and lifelong learning play in the strategic po-sitioning of Europe in a globalized world the most central roles that companies and the society have to face. It must be committed in new ways! There will be new dimensions of learning!
”It is a pioneering act to give your award to persons who offer visions all across Europe and thus for the whole world such as lifelong learning in every form, who create beacon projects, who by imparting knowledge and education open hearts and minds for educating the heart, for which there can be no more dignified society in the global world.”
Dr. h. c. Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Former Federal State Minister of Germany
(Excerpt from the honorific speech for J. Delors 2010)
Alexander Petsch Günther M. Szogs Prof. Dr. Winfried Sommer On behalf of the Steering Committee and the international Advisory Board of the Leonardo Award
Teemu Arina, Finland, Founder and CEO of Decole in the category "Young Leonardo – Humanity in Digitization" for putting emphasis on outstanding new developments that provoke a fundamental challenge to predo-
minant mind-sets that enable us to bridge the gap of Big Data and digitization of all ways of life and to truly adapt this impact for the benefit of society. The outcomes are of great importance for both Corporate Learning as well as Community Education.
Claudia Suhov, Romania, Founder and CEO of Kidster.ro in the category "Young Leonardo – Trans-Generational Learning" for her meaningful contributions to a better under-standing how to learn together
across generations and fostering potential in learning and knowing in all the challenges we are confronted with in different phases of our life, e.g. in projects like "My name is young European" to students in 2007 as well as for the elder generation called "A day for two generations".
Christoph Brosius, Germany, Founder and CEO of "Die Hob-rechts" in the category "Young Leonardo – Humor Energized Learning" for emphasizing work and approaches inspired by the idea and concept of creating
possibilities of joyful, playful discovery and learning, and even behavioural change. By creating amazing examples of changing perspectives in learning, be it in the corporate world itself or in the communication with customers. His concepts of learning integrate strategic thinking as well as decision making and involve team members in games that provide fascinating learning effects in combination with sheer fun.
Dr. Thieu Besselink, The Netherlands, Founder and CEO of "The Learning Lab" in the category "Young Leonardo – Wisely Smart" for his far reaching pioneering work as an innovator, philosopher and
adviser, combining academic fundamental research with practical implementation in a rather diverse context and helping business people and underprivileged learners alike.
Dale J. Stephens, USA, Founder of UnCollege in the category "Young Leonardo – Education Hacker" for putting an emphasis on challenges of predominant mind-sets that force us to think twice about our habits
of learning and knowing and how to decompose and recompose the modules of life that shape our knowledge. The UnCollege concept is not a simplistic denial of a formal education system but actually a call to everyone to take full advantage of one’s potential and to co-create a fitting environment for it.
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Young Leonardo Laureates 2015
The Leonardo Award honours for the first time young and independent individuals who, in the era of globalisation, devote their zeal and lifeblood to the search for innovative solutions to the daunting challenges in the field of learning, be it in a company, an organization or society. All awardees have initiated projects with model character, with a focus on the interplay between knowledge and learning in companies and society, as well as the importance for the lifestyle of individuals and the success of businesses:
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Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg BullingerFraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Dr. Nick van DamMcKinsey, The e-Learning for Kids Foundation
Gary CopitchPeople's Voice Media, United Kingdom
Prof. Dorothy A. LeonardWilliam A. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, Harvard Faculty USA
Jimmy WalesFounder of Wikipedia
Dr. Wilfried StollFesto Holding GmbH
Prof. Dr. Jacques DelorsFormer chair of UNESCO Education Commisson
Dr. h.c. Kurt Stoll Festo Holding GmbH
Caroline Jenner Chief Executive Officer Europe JA-YE-Europe
Calvin Grieder CEO and President of Bühler Management AGSwitzerland
Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner Founder of Hasso-Plattner-Instituteans SAP SE
Prof. Sugata Mitra MIT Media Lab USA & Newcastle University, UK
Laureates 2010–2014
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Prof. Dr. Winfried Sommer
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“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Being willing is not enough, we must do.”
Leonardo da Vinci
Members of the Leonardo Corporate Network:
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Federal Ministry of Educationand Research
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