More than 250 young people gathered in Villach to start the European Tolerance Talks 2018 in order to discuss forward-looking ideas and fundamental questions for a better life. As part of the “Love Tour against Mobbing and Violence in Schools”, a focus of the Carinthian federal Education Bord, the students were given tips and tricks
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“Why we have to rethink the future” was the topic of a keynote speech by the Hamburg trend researcher Birgit Gebhardt at the opening of the International Tourism Forum in Villach, which took place for the first time as part of the European Tolerance Talks at the Hotel Holiday Inn. Well-known experts from business and
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The already traditional Young Poetry Slam concluded the European Tolerance Talks 2018 on Friday evening, and for the first time multiple participant Lukas Hofbauer (21) from Klagenfurt (living in Graz) won the poetic competition after a brilliant public voting. Last year’s winner, Estha Sackl (25) from Steindorf, placed second ahead of the youngest participant Birgit
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The Austrian PEN Club and the city of Villach (Carinthia) have created the European Tolerance Award for Democracy and Human Rights. In 2018 the prize was awarded for the first time to the Turkish writer Dogan Akhanli, who lives in Cologne. “The award is a recognition for his humanistic attitude, his sincere treatment of historical
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Paradise concepts in politics, business and society are the focus of the European Tolerance Talks, which take place next week from 16 to 19 May in Villach and Fresach. The talks will be broadcasted live on the internet for the first time in 2018. In cooperation with BTV and Raiffeisenbank Kärnten, the organizer (Denk.Raum.Fresach) is
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The well-known German TV presenter and bestselling author Franz Alt will open the Entrepreneur’s Day in Fresach on 18 May with a presentation on the “Future of the Earth – Good News or Lost Paradise”. Can our blue planet still be salvaged in the face of advancing climate change and ever-increasing resource misuse, and if
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“Love and Heart” are two revolutionary metaphors of Islamic mysticism. The multiple best-selling author Gerhard Schweizer explains what we can take from these two metaphors and the alternative thinking in oriental literature for the entrepreneurship of the 21st century on 18 May as part of the European Tolerance Talks 2018 in Fresach (2 p.m.). Gerhard
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“Zero tolerance – how networking and globalization shift claims and realities” or “The End of Tourism as we know it. Why we need to think the future anew” is the topic of a keynote speech by the Hamburg trend expert and futurologist Birgit Gebhardt at the opening of the tourism forum on 16 May at
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EU ambassador and startup entrepreneur Ali Mahlodji will open the exciting day program of the Love Tour ’18 on May 16th at 9 a.m. at the Parkhotel Villach (Großer Bambergsaal) with the theme “School with Heart – Just Save the World”. Mahlodji, who fled Iran with his parents as a child, explains how we can
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Paradise concepts in politics, economics and society are the focus of the European Tolerance Talks 2018, which will take place during the Whitsun week from 16 to 19 May in Villach and Fresach. Over 40 authors and thinkers, scientists and cultural workers will discuss ways out of Europe’s current media-political crisis of meaning. This year’s
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The 2018 World Cup is fast approaching, with national sides making their final preparations ahead of this summer’s tournament. We now know the groups after December’s draw. England have been put together with Belgium, Tunisia and Panama in Group G. Gareth Southgate’s side were not among the top seeds, meaning they featured in pot two
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Turkish-German writer and human rights activist Dogan Akhanli will open this year’s European Tolerance Talks on May 17, 2018 in Fresach. Last year, Akhanli was arrested in Spain on the grounds of a Turkish Interpol warrant and released only after weeks of federal intervention in Berlin. Akhanli will dedicate his speech on the theme “Longing
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Die Stadt Villach wird die Europäischen Toleranzgespräche 2018 wieder maßgeblich unterstützen. Villachs Bürgermeister Günther Albel betonte bei der Programmvorstellung im Spiegelsaal der Landesregierung, das diesjährige Thema „Sehnsucht nach Europa – Über die Suche nach dem verlorenen Paradies“ sei dazu geradezu prädestiniert dafür. Villach sei ein Paradies auf Erden, und wir müssten alles tun, dass es
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The motiv of the European Tolerance Talks 2018 will again come from the art studios of the native Carinthian painter Erika Seywald. It shows a modern version and allegory of the expulsion from paradise. We see a wonderfully colorful red-orange, female figure in the prime of her life and the damnation of her male counterpart
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On the occasion of the presentation of the European Tolerance Talks 2018 in Vienna, the Salzburg historian and architectural theorist Michael Zinganel presented his theses on mobility and migration in the Alps-Adriatic region. Using numerous examples, Zinganel pointed out that it is above all the enormous expectations that bring people on their way, and these
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Vienna (18 Jan 2018) – In front of a the well-attended auditorium at the Oberbank Vienna the Denk.Raum.Fresach on Thursday evening presented the program of the European Tolerance Talks 2018, which are dedicated to the “Yearning for Europe” and the “Search for lost Paradise”. Architectural theorist and contemporary historian Michael Zinganel, currently honorary professor at
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Overwhelming reactions, dozens of congratulations, perseverance. So you can summarize the many responses to the Carinthian Human Rights Award 2017, which have reached us, representing here those of the Carinthian Deputy Governor Beate Prettner: Dear Denk.Raum.Fresach team, “They give us wings with this award and give us motivation to continue along this path together with
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“The cause and effect of climate change are far apart in time. This is precisely why we must now be aware that we need to act because beside all the money climate change costs, it costs first and foremost lives. I call it ‘learning by dying’”, said the Carinthian environmental politician Rolf Holub at the European tolerance
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“Instead of avoiding the costs of our prosperity, we have passed them. These are now payed by others who are not responsible for it.”This is the conclusion of the former head of the UN Environment Programme, Klaus Töpfer, at the opening of the second European tolerance conversations in the Carinthian mountain village Fresach http://fresach.org. Given the
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