World peace cannot be safeguarded without the making of creative efforts proportionate to the dangers which threaten it.
Robert Schuman, May 9th 1950
2019: A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE IN BERLIN
2020: A TWO-DAY CONFERENCE ONLINE
2021: WE ARE WORKING ON IT...
Many feel that the world is currently in an unstable state and we need creative efforts that can secure world peace, stability and sustainable prosperity around the globe. Creativity at that scale requires Bildung.
What?
European Bildung Day is the celebration of Europe and bildung on May 9th each year. You will find more info at europeanbildung.net
How?
Together, we are going to explore Bildung and how Bildung can become a fun, meaningful and uniting European endeavor.
Bildung?
Bildung is so uniquely Germanic the word doesn’t even exist in English—yet. Can we unite our continent around culture, science, philosophy, beauty, art, emancipation, wonder, education, a sense of shared belonging, and that “thing” which can best be captured in another German word: Geist?
Uniting Europe?
Yes. Through cultural heritage and Bildung. We believe in humans, in culture and in a shared sense of belonging: in local communities, peoples and nations, and continents and civilizations. We also believe in a shared humanity and a universal need for meaning making and expression, for empowerment, emancipation and fun.
WORDCLOUD EUROPEAN BILDUNG DAY 2019
BILDUNG, PERSONALITY AND CREATIVITY
Friedrich SchillerThe more power and depth the personality has, and the more freedom reason gains, then the more world a human comprehends, and the more form he creates outside himself.