Leonardo Dossier - Leonardo - European Corporate Learning Award

Leonardo Dossier - Leonardo - European Corporate Learning Award

LEONARDO
European Corporate
Learning Award
INVITATION
Transfer Meeting and Festive Ceremony of
Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award 2015
Hotel Kameha Grand Bonn, Germany
September 14, 2015
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Young Leonardo Laureates 2015
Teemu
Arina
Claudia
Suhov
Christoph
Brosius
Dr. Thieu
Besselink
Dale J.
Stephens
Finland:
"Humanity in
Digitization"
Romania:
"Trans-Generational
Learning"
Germany:
"Humor Energized
Learning"
The Netherlands:
"Wisely Smart"
USA:
"Education Hacker"
Patrons
Partners
Initiator
Federal Ministry
of Education
and Research
www.leonardo-award.eu
Learning to discover – learning to treasure
Prof. Dr. Jacques Delors, Leonardo Award 2010, Chairman of the
UNESCO Commission, Honorary Citizen of Europe,
For the title of its UNESCO report, the UNESCO Commission turned
to one of Jean de la Fontaine’s fables “The Ploughman and his sons”:
"Be sure (the ploughman said), not to sell the inheritance
Our forebears left to us:
A Treasure lies concealed therein.
Readapting slightly the words of the poet, who was lauding the virtues
of hard work, and referring instead to education – that is, everything
that humanity has learned about itself – we could have him said:
But the old man was wise
To show them before he died
That learning is the treasure"
(from: “Learning: The Treasure Within – Report to UNESCO of the International Commission on Education
for the Twenty-first Century”)
Words of greeting for the Leonardo Award 2015
Alexander Petsch
Günther M. Szogs
Prof. Dr. Winfried Sommer
On behalf of the Steering Committee and the international Advisory Board of the Leonardo Award
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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 report deals with cultural education, the relationship of education 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 important 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 necessary!
Jacques Delors and his commission have highlighted
this in a four-pillar model of learning:
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earning to acquire knowledge: Requires the ability
to learn and requires concentration, power and memory. 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, individually 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.
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earning 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 detect 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.
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earning to be: Education should contribute as a fundamental principle of universal development of each
individual, e.g. the body and mind, intelligence, sensitivity, perception, personal responsibility and spiritual
values. Everyone should be able to think independently
and critically and to make their own judgments, especially 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 learning. 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
creative potential of the whole personality and not only
adapt to a changing world of work.
Jacques Delorsʹ message forced us in 2010 to establish
a European Learning Award, the Leonardo European
Corporate Learning Award.
It requires, in addition to training initiatives and educational innovation in Europe, life models with exemplary
commitment, with brave and clear visions.
With the Leonardo Award personalities are honored,
who initiated and implemented "lighthouse" projects in
this spirit, who have rendered 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 the Leonardo Award is to highlight
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 positioning 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! Let us open our minds for a better life
for all!
Martin Schulz © European Union 2014 - European
Parliament.
Words of greeting for the Leonardo Award 2015
Dr. Shyamal Majumdar,
Head of Office,
UNESCO-UNEVOC
Martin Schulz,
President of the
European Parliament
Discovery in Learning
It is not just Europe that faces high levels of youth unemployment and has concerns how to meet the challenge
of growing mismatch between supply and demand for
skills. Europe and the rest of the world, especially emerging countries, face mostly similar challenges when it
comes to Technical Vocational Education and Training
(TVET). UNESCO-UNEVOC has triggered international
cooperation’s and helped to organize unique global NorthSouth-South cooperation for TVET providers, practitioners, experts and policy makers from around the world sharing promising practices in the areas of greening TVET,
youth and skills.
„I am happy to see that this year only members of the
younger generation are receiving the Leonardo Corporate
Learning Award. The laureates have attracted a great deal
of attention by suggesting innovative ideas in the areas
of education and corporate learning, and thus inspired
success stories and peak performances in the respective
fields.
The Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award shares
with us this endeavor. Prof. Jacques Delors, as chairman
of UNESCO´s taskforce on learning in the 21st century, has
been first laureate of this award and thus symbolizes the
close connection.
“Leonardo” has understood that modern and smart skills
development is a multi-sectorial quest and requires multistakeholder partnerships with all their diverse perspectives and innovations. It strengthens the awareness that
disruptive thinking is needed to solve problems with utmost creativity and joy. At the same time this attitude is
rooted in UNESCOʹs founding belief in preserving cultural
heritage. Discovering the new is best done whilst learning
to treasure.
It is with great delight to see in this year of UNESCOʹs 70th
anniversary the “Leonardo” consequently proceeding in
this spirit focusing on the “Young”. I am happy to share
this event that promotes discoveries inclusive TVET and in
the intersection of corporate and societal learning.
As you know, the European Parliament has long been an
advocate of providing greater coordination between the
EU and its Member States in order to promote the access
to high-quality education, training and professional development for all citizens of the EU, and for young people in
particular. A good education and the right skills will make
it easier for young people to find their rightful place in the
European society as well as the employment market, thus
contributing towards future growth and progress in Europe.
I am therefore delighted to be able to grant you the patronage of the European Parliament for your event.”
(Excerpt of Martin Schulzʹ letter to the Leonardo Award
Steering Committee.)
Foto: Bundesregierung © Steffen Kugler
Words of greeting for the
Leonardo Corporate Learning Award 2015
Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka,
Federal Minister
of Education and Research
Progress and innovation are the key to prosperity, social
security and the future prospects of the next generation.
That's why we need people who leave trodden paths,
think outside the box and create scope for innovation across borders. In short: we need pioneers. In education a
pioneering spirit is an important prerequisite for new concepts that reach people directly.
The international laureates of this year's "Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award" know to convince with
original and innovative educational concepts. With his
learning laboratories, Dr. Thieu Besselink from the Netherlands has created a new approach to learning. He makes
it clear that our ever more complex world requires space
for flexible and creative learning experiences and thus the
open minds of each and every individual.
The US American Dale J. Stephens is an advocate of selfdirected learning outside of classrooms. His approach, the
"UnCollege", allows educational experiences outside of
institutions: by travelling, by working in companies around
the world, by learning with and from other people. This is
where it's all about knowledge that has to do with one's
own person, about personal experiences and support for
individual journeys through life.
The award in the category "Humanity in Digitization" goes
to Teemu Arina from Finland. He is one of the pioneers
when it comes to the digital society. For him the Internet
plays a central role in learning together. Educational institutions should provide the structures to connect people
with the same interest in learning.
Christoph Brosius from Germany and his team stand for
the playful transformation of learning – even at work. The
message is clear: living, working and learning can actually
be fun and fuse to create an experience that is mutually
enriching.
In her educational programs for children and young people, the Romanian Claudia Suhov is primarily focused on
the many different ways of accessing playful education,
such as learning camps and individual support. In this
way, young people can successfully develop their individual abilities.
I congratulate all the prize-winners of the "Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award" and hope that they will
continue their mission in such a committed, creative and
innovative way.
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Günther M. Szogs,
Secretary
Leonardo Award
Today’s young generation communicates differently,
learns differently, works differently, creates differently. It
is thus that it designs the society and businesses of the
future. Building on a foundation that has grown over generations. Let's hope it holds.
Jacques Delors, the first winner of the Leonardo, is not
completely sure. He has described millions of young people out of work, combined with narrow-minded national
vocational concepts to be a hopeless and inacceptable situation in several international newspapers. In fresh spirit
happily attacking out-of-date conventions, the seasoned
gentleman calls for an Erasmus pro in vocational training
along the lines of the academic Erasmus program.After
all, enabling young people any form of "learning to be"
in professional learning also works via "learning to live
together" in an ideally international environment. Then the
“learning to do”, i.e. learning professional and social abilities, is based on a healthy foundation.
Once that has been understood, neither gloomy forecasts
based on yesterday, nor naively optimistic digitally smiling start-ups will be of any use when it comes to shaping
the future. What is needed are young responsible people
in the here and now, who are courageous and energetic, and have unusual yet viable ideas.Young people who
make others participate. People who can demonstrate on
the basis of such a holistic learning concept how you can
take a different approach to challenges in business and
society, how you can turn some things upside down, and
change a great deal.
Such people are in the focus of this year's Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award. They have used the
sting of social and entrepreneurial shortcomings, which
are also often reflected in the organisation of learning, to
develop inspiring, engaging, often touching projects, initiatives and products that regularly also put a smile on
people’s faces.
Their fields of action are particularly far ranging. Their
contribution towards redesigning learning is characterised by a common attitude. It leads to the multifaceted
design of what “learning to learn” can be today: from UnSchooling projects, TRANS-generation encounters, human-oriented digitization innovations and learning labs,
to the game development-based joyful exploration of art
and mental spaces. A learning process that is constantly
and reciprocally changing – a Leonardo-inspired “Quantum Learning Space”.
Young Leonardo Laureates 2015:
Vita and personal thoughts
The Leonardo Award honours for the first time young and
independent individuals who, in the era of globalization,
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, any 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.
Claudia Suhov | Romania
Founder & CEO of KIDster.ro
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Awarded with:
“Young Leonardo – Trans-Generational Learning”
for her “meaningful contributions to a better understanding 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 lives”.
My Skills:
Creative and crazy leadership skills, enthusiast strategist,
great planning and vision skills, communication and artistic presentation skills, very intuitive and confident, strong
optimist and flexible person, fun and hardworking team
member, excellent connector, innocent and free spirit,
wild child at heart.
My expectations and personal thoughts on my
work and society:
My mission in life is to educate young people with kindness and compassion, to help them see the beautiful treasures they have been gifted with and to bring it out so that
the world can see and cherish it.
I want to have a positive contribution and a global socioeconomic impact by sharing my knowledge and my life
experiences to provide solution and actions for people.
In the next 10 years I wish to create programs and products for 1 million children and young people.
My greatest moments in my work life:
Three years ago, in one of the first camps I have organized
for children, one evening, after a long day of activities with
a group of 40 children aged 5 to 7, one little girl was staying in the hallway, outside her room, while the others almost fell asleep. When I approached her, she told me suddenly: "Claudia, I love you." In that moment I felt my legs
were melting, I hugged her and I told her "I love you too".
It was a divine moment and I felt like I had a little angel in
my arms telling me that I'm on the good road, and that I
have to continue the work I do. After that moment I went
to my room and I started to cry for minutes. I was full of joy
and thankful for having the chance to work for these kids
and experiencing such wonderful moments with them. I
am extremely thankful for all the inspiration, opportunities
and wisdom that God gave me.
The moments when I'm surrounded by children, seeing
them happy and flourish are the most amazing moments
in my life. The love that I receive from them feeds my soul
and spirit.
Read the complete statement on
www.leonardo-award.eu!
Christoph Brosius | Germany
Founder & CEO of “Die Hobrechts”
Awarded with:
“Young Leonardo – Humor Energized Learning”
for “emphasizing work and approaches inspired by
the idea and concept of creating possibilities of joyful,
playful discoveries and learning, and even behavioural
change. By creating amazing examples of changing
perspectives in learning, be it in the corporate world
itself or in communication with customers.”
Learning Statement:
One definition of playing is learning in a safe environment
through trial and error. Games also have clear goals one
can work towards. And gamers adore the rewarding feeling of having mastered an epic challenge.
Learning as of today is still expected of people in systems
that punish failures instead of celebrating them. Most of
the time it stays unclear for what purpose one should
learn something new or why it will be beneficial in the long
run. And you rarely see people taking risks that ultimately
would lead to epic breakthroughs and innovations.
Regardless of the context, may it be in schools, universities, corporations or in life – I strongly belief that this
new generation, having grown up with games and being
used to responsive and heavily feed-backing systems that
explain themselves and adopt to your current skill level,
needs to be given a completely new set of tools. Such that
build upon intrinsic motivation, guide you if needed and
contextualize the process. We need to create learning experiences, because no one actually said that progressing
in real life while solving all those epic questions of our time
can’t be more fun after all.
In order to develop such experiences, or any innovative
approach for that matter, organizations need to open up
to perspectives outside of their own domain and comfort zone. A game designers perspective is just one of
many lenses available and waiting to be applied. To me,
learning’s main challenge in the 21st century therefore
boils down not only to the what, why and how, but never
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the less to this: From whom will we learn and how will we
find and grow to trust each other.
My skills:
Fantasy: Being able to imagine something new before it
becomes reality. Thanks Lego!
Communication: Understanding people through active
listening and being able to adapt to them. Thanks to my
parents who were so influenced by the retail trade!
Implementation expertise: The intrepid addressing and
achieving of big goals driven by perfectionism and an obsession for harmony. Thanks to my zodiac sign Virgo!
Motivation: The enthusiasm of others through one’s own
conviction and joy. Thanks to my father, who told me to
"do only what you enjoy"!
Domain knowledge in the creative industry: Expertise in
a variety of working environments including printing, advertising, television/film and games. Thanks to my impatience.
Analysis and combinatorics: The quick comprehension
of systems, the simplification to an understandable level
of complexity and the creation of innovations through the
combination of existing elements. Thanks to my family,
where – as a middle child – I quickly had to be able to
orientate myself
Read more about Christoph Brosius’ story on
www.leonardo-award.eu!
Dr. Thieu Besselink | The Netherlands
Founder and CEO of “The Learning Lab”
Awarded with:
“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”.
I believe we are living the beginning of what could possibly be a renaissance that is as profound, exciting, and
disturbing as the one that Leonardo witnessed in his days.
I like to think we are re-discovering ourselves and what it
means to live on a finite planet. If this would be the case,
what would it mean to learn for a renaissance? Or put differently, if we have to redesign virtually every system in
which we live – from our exhaustive economy to our divided social structures, our science and education – what
how, and to what purpose should we learn?
This question lies at the foundation of the work I do with
the Learning Lab, a think-do-tank dedicated to learning
for social innovation. Part of the answer to this question
I find in the idea that our time asks us to learn to make a
difference, everyone in his own right. From this perspective learning is always for something, and in my case it is
inseparable with making a societal impact. Learning not
as the accumulation of abstract knowledge, but as a purposive, living experience in the world.
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Over the past 5 years or so I ran a series of labs at universities, in companies, theatre and dance studio's, polytechnics, banks, cities, governments, and high-schools.
All starting from an experimental attitude of finding ways
to make a difference, and discovering who we needed to
become in order to do so. Facilitating them, and designing
them such that they impact a system, rather than staying a project, is like making a theatre performance with
a group of artists attempting to reach the world. A skill
about which there is still much to learn, and which I believe we will need in the future.
I love the diversity of people I can work with in these labs.
I could connect people of all ages, in many different countries, and with vastly different backgrounds or positions
in society around common purpose. They show me how
much we learn from a real encounter with someone truly
different, and how we are deeply interdependent when it
comes to solving our most pressing challenges. But also
that it is a certain entrepreneurial ”hacker” mentality and
people’s self-organization that empowers them. Because
ownership is distributed, from the underprivileged youth
to the mayor and the manager, no one is in control. No
one really controls the city, the school, or the company,
leave alone our wellbeing or waste problem. It takes a particularly skilled community that takes ownership. This is
why I worked to develop the Dutch School for instance,
which aims at empowering teachers not just as the designers of learning and teaching, but also the facilitators of
community.
It is often more difficult to explain what it is I do than why,
because the projects vary so much. What weaves them
together is my belief that we should be learning for a world
that is uncontrollable, unpredictable, and surely unsustainable without our sense of beauty and audacity.
Read the complete statement on
www.leonardo-award.eu!
Teemu Arina | Finland
Founder & CEO of Dicole and Meetin.gs Ltd
Awarded with:
“Young Leonardo – Humanity in Digitization”
for “putting emphasis on outstanding new developments that provoke a fundamental challenge to predominant 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”
Teemu Arina has a professional career of 17+ years as an
advisor to government, public sector, education, multi-national corporations, and startups on the use of social technologies for communications, collaboration, and learning.
Currently based in Finland. He is one of the forefront thinkers on digital society and the intersection of the human
and the machine. Topics of interest include social media,
openinnovation, big data, business analytics, quantified
self, biohacking, mobile technologies, cloud services, the
future of work and online learning. He presented internationally as an invited keynote speaker in USA, Japan,
UK, Russia, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy among
others.
He has held key advisory positions in national, international and EU development projects on topics related to online collaboration, e-learning, professional development,
mobile learning and startup technology companies. He
is the CEO and founder of two companies, a regular visiting lecturer at universities and author of a number of
articles and knowledge books including the forthcoming
Biohacker’s Handbook. Teemu is regularly featured in
newspapers, educational publications and business magazines for his insights and professional achievements.
CEO, Partner and Founder at Meetin.gs Ltd
Meetin.gs puts online and face-to-face meetings on the
cloud, accessible from any device. The company is recognized as a Young and Innovative Company (YIC) by
the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation and is backed by respected private investors, Tekes,
Veraventure and KoppiCatch.
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Partner and Founder at Dicole Ltd
Dicole is a digital business accelerator providing management consulting and advisory services for the strategic
use of mobile and social technologies.
Chairman of the Board & Founder at Biohacker
Center BHC Inc.
Biohacker Center researches digital health, wearables,
quantified self and biohacking. Quantified self is selfknowledge through numbers: wearable sensors and smart
phone apps for gathering information about daily life such
as diet, sports, sleep, mood, work et cetera. Biohacking is
the art and science of maximizing ones biological potential. The combination is to incorporate technology into data
acquisition for life extension. Biohacker Center publishes
the Biohacker’s Handbook series.
Regular clients include but are not limited to a)
stock-listed international companies
such as Nokia, Accenture, Microsoft, Tieto, CGI Group,
Elisa, Telia Sonera, Alma Media, Orion, Kesko, UPMKymmene, KONE, Sanoma and Neste Oil, b) public sector
organizations such as Finnish Defence Forces, Ministry
of Defence, Ministry of Education Finland, Finnish Transport Safety Agency, National Board of Education Finland,
Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation,
Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli, Aalto University, University of Manitoba and University of Wisconsin-Madison,
c) non-profits such as the Federation of Finnish Technology Industries, the Finnish Society for Future Studies
and Finnish Information Society Development Centre, d)
cities such as City of Helsinki and city of Espoo and e)
technology startups. Trusted positions at Chief Learning
Officer Magazine USA (BI Board Member 2009), Horizon
Project USA (Advisory Board Member 2009), European
PROLEARN NetworkEU (Industry Board Member 20032007), Mobiilisti ESF-project (Chairman of the Steering
Board 2010-2015) and AVO – Open Networks for Learning
ESF-project (Chairman of the Steering Board 2008-2012).
Awards include the Best Web App at The Next Web Conference 2013 in the Netherlands and World Summit Award
2008 in Finland for the e-business & commerce
Dale J. Stephens | USA
Founder of UnCollege
Awarded with:
“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.”
Advocacy and Media
January 2011 – Present
Writing
August 2011 – March 2013
Founder,
UnCollege, http://uncollege.org
Author, Hacking Your Education, Penguin (Perigee)
2013
- Launched a self-directed learning initiative providing
resources to students worldwide
- Signed a contract with Penguin to publish book at
nineteen years of age
- Obtained coverage from the Chronicle of Higher
Education, the Huffington Post, NPR, New York
Magazine and ABC three months after launch
- Received $50,000 advance as first­‐time author
- Developed ongoing relationships with reporters.
Stories appeared both nationally and internationally
about UnCollege regularly.
Full list at http://dalejstephens.com/press
- Designed media campaign for book launch for a first
time author that included The Today Show, The Katie
Couric Show, NPR Morning Edition, Wall Street Journal
op-ed, Fox Business, and more
- Wrote guest pieces/op­‐eds in the New York Times,
CNN, and Washington Post
- Became a source for foreign or national reporters
looking for stories about innovation/technology
- Grew newsletter to worldwide community of ~
15,000 subscribers
- Created an experimental education program for 34 of
those subscribers. Tuition was $14,000 per person.
- Lectured in twenty countries around the world
- Managed a budget of $500,000 and five employees
Speaking
June 2011 – Present
Gave 45 invited talks in the last year focusing on
education and youth
- Represented by Washington Speakers Bureau
- Debated education at TED2012 with Vivek Wadhwa
- Lectured in twenty countries around the world, from
the Government of Malaysia to the New York Times to
WIRED to education technology conferences
- Attended The World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland
Forbes 30 Under 30
January 2013
- Recognized as one of the top thirty world leaders in
education for my work with UnCollege
Laureates 2010–2014
Prof. Dr. Jacques Delors
Former chair of UNESCO
Education Commisson
Prof. Sugata Mitra
MIT Media Lab USA &
Newcastle University,
UK
Jimmy Wales
Founder of Wikipedia
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Bullinger
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Dr. h.c. Kurt Stoll
Festo Holding GmbH
Dr. Wilfried Stoll
Festo Holding GmbH
Prof. Dorothy A. Leonard
William A. Abernathy Professor
of Business Administration,
Emerita, Harvard Faculty USA
Dr. Nick van Dam
McKinsey,
The e-Learning for Kids Foundation
Gary Copitch
People's Voice Media,
United Kingdom
Caroline Jenner
Chief Executive Officer Europe
JA-YE-Europe
Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner
Founder of Hasso-Plattner-Institute
and SAP SE
Calvin Grieder
CEO and President of Bühler Management AG
Switzerland
Günther M. Szogs
Prof. Dr. Winfried Sommer
Foto: Szogs
Foto: Sommer
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Alexander R. Petsch
Foto: Petsch
The Steering Committee
 Co-Initiator of the Leonardo Award and
PL Executive Forum
 Founder and CEO of HRM Research Institute and børding Messe in Mannheim, the
leading organiser of tradeshows for Human
Resources Management, for eLearning and
Online Marketing, for Corporate Health and
occupational health and safety in Switzerland, France and Germany.
 Publisher of "personal manager", the magazine for HR professionals.
 Founder of Germany's largest social networking portal for HR professionals, HRM.de
 Secretary of the Advisory Board of the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award
 Founding member of "The New Club of
Paris"
 Longtime expertise as head of skilland knowledge management in major banks
 Speaker of knowledge-experts
association
 Former Member of scientific advisory board
for Innovation for the German Federal
Government
 Various memberships in Think Tanks for
Metropolitan Development
 Scientific director for congresses of HR
professionals: PL Professional Learning
Europe and SeLC Swiss eLearning
Conference
 Co-initiator of the "Executive Forum", an
event for HR board members and Chief
Learning Officers in cohesion with the Leonardo Award presentation
 Co-initiator with Prof. Dr. Uwe Beck of the
Learntec in Karlsruhe
 Emeritus Professor for Sociology and Political
Sciences at the Universities of Landau,
Mainz, Esslingen and Karlsruhe
The LEONARDO Advisory Board
Foto: Markkula
Markku Markkula
Foto: Palme
Peter Palme
 President of the Humboldt-Cosmos-Multiversity, Tenerife, Canary Islands
 Affiliated with the Vienna-based Knowledge
Management Associates/Academy/Association and its cooperation partner “execupery“
 Decorated with the “Cross of Honor 1st
Class in Science & Art” of the Republic of
Austria for achievements in rebuilding the
applied science infrastructure in Austria, and
the Victor-Kaplan Medal for Outstanding
Innovation.
 Ex-General Secretary of “The New Club of
Paris“ and former Head of the European
Software Institute, Bilbao
 Former CEO of the Austrian Research Center (ARC) in Seibersdorf, today called Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Austria’s
largest applied research organization
 President of the European Committee of
Regions (CoR)
 Former Chairman of the Board of the
Finnish Information Society Development
Center TIEKE
 Vice Chairman of the Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG)
 Former director of the Lifelong Learning
Institute Dipoli of University of Technology
in Helsinki
 Member of the EU Committee of the
Regions, CoR for 2010-2014 as member of
commission for Education, Youth, Culture
and Research and Commission for Economic and Social Policy ECOS
 CoR rapporteur on Digital Agenda for
Europe
 Advisor within Aalto University to Aalto
Presidents
 Organizational & Learning & Development
Manager Feldschlösschen AG
 Former Head Learning & Development
EMEA Syngenta Crop Protection AG,
Switzerland
 Former HR Manager at “The DOW Chemical
Company“
 Former Manager for Global Training and
Learning Technology at Nestlé 2002-2007
Foto: Pawlowsky
Foto: Pregla
Prof. James Powell
Foto: Powell
Foto: Koch
Th
Corinna Pregla
 Professional artistic career as classical singer
and moderator with broad experiences at the
international cultural scene
 Graduate of the international EMAA Studies
(II), University of Zürich
 Member of the Villa Vigoni, Italian-German
Center of European Excellence
 Representative of the Federal German Initiative "365 Venues in Land of Ideas", under
the patronage of the Federal President of
Germany
 Emeritus Professor of Academic Enterprise
and UK Ambassador for Social Entrepreneurship in Higher Education
 Director of both UPBEAT & Smart City
Futures
 Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the
British Empire
for services for Science and Engineering
Education
 Time Higher Award winner for Leadership in
Technology Transfer and Engagement 2010
Diego Sanchez de Leon
 Former Senior Executive at Accenture,
responsible for talent & organization
performance
in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin
America
 Human Capital Leader for Spain, Portugal
and Israel
 Member of Spanish GEO Council and its
advisory board
 Chairman of the board of Accenture Human
Capital Management Solutions
Foto: Sanchez de Leon
Prof. Günter Koch
 Former CEO of the Danish Chamber of
Commerce
 Founder and former President of European
Round Table for Business Related Services,
Brussels
 Former member of steering committee of
The Danish Employers Organization
 Former President of the Danish Athletics
Federaton
Prof. Dr. Peter Pawlowsky
 Professor for Personnel Management and
Leadership studies
 Director at the Research Institute for Organizational Competence and Strategy (FOKUS)
at Chemnitz University of Technology
 Co-founder and President of the Society for
Knowledge Management 2001-2003
Prof. Dr. Wim Veen
Foto: Veen
Foto: Henriksen
Søren B. Henriksen
 Winner of the European Award for
Innovation Thought Leadership 2013
 Former President of “The New Club of Paris“
 World’s first Chief Knowledge Officer and
“Brain of the Year“ 1998
 Founder of “First Future Center“
 World’s First Professor for Intellectual Capital, University of Lund, Sweden
 Founder and CEO of UNIC – Universal
Networking Intellectual Capital AB
 Emeritus Professor for development of
learning systems at University of Technology, Faculty of Technology and Management
in Delft, Netherlands
 Consultant for educational institutions
for private companies and governmental
authorities
 Member of the Dutch National eLearning
Award
Prof. Dagmar Woyde-Köhler
 Executive Director of New & Able Management- und Organisations-beratung GmbH
 Former Managing Director of EnBW Akademie GmbH
 Chief Learning Officer 2008 for implementing a most successful strategy for further
education and for introducing Intellectual
Capital Reporting for Energie Baden-Württemberg AG
Foto: Woyde-Köhler
Foto: Edvisson
Prof. Leif Edvinsson
Impressions of the
Leonardo Award Ceremony 2014
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Presenters of the day
Corinna Pregla
Dr. Charles Savage
 Leonardo
 President
 University
Ambassador Germany
studies in music history, singing and fine
arts.
 Moderator
of own concerts, music education programs
and events all over the world.
 Frequent guest of the German Academy Rome,
Villa Massimo and elected member of the
German-Italian Center for European Excellence,
Villa Vigoni.
Prof. Michael Spencer
and Mentor Knowledge Era Enterprising Int.
Member of the “Arabian Knowledge Economy Association”
 Founding Member of “The New Club of Paris”
 Board Member of the Center for Business Ethics and
CSR at Gujarat Technical University in Ahmedabad,
India
 Creator of the very first World Café in 1990
 Teacher of MBA courses in “Leadership and Organizational Behavior” at University in Munich and MBA
related courses in India at Christ University, as well as
in Dubai, Saudi-Arabia and Sweden
 Founding
Dr. Daniel Stoller-Schai
 Visiting
Professor at Ueno Gakuen University (Tokyo)
and a Visiting Fellow at their Music and Culture Research Centre.
 Former Communication Director with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra (Tokyo) and advisor to the Orquesta Sinfónica del Vallés (Barcelona).
 Currently Director of a new training and development
program for facilitators, the first of its kind in Japan.
 In 2008 education director for the Oscar-winning animated film of “Peter and the Wolf.”
 Former member of the London Symphony Orchestra
and Head of Education at the Royal Opera House
(London)
 Head
Sales & Account Management, CREALOGIX
Switzerland
 Former Head Business Area “Enterprises” LerNetz AG
 Director, UBS AG Corporate Center, eLearning Design
 Education Design Manager, Phonak AG
 E-Learning/ E-Collaboration Research Assistant Manager, University St. Gallen
 Project Development and Online Moderator, GottliebDuttweiler Institute
Framework: OUBEY Projekt
In the context of the first “Young Leonardo Award”, we are this year
also presenting a genuine world novelty for the first time: In the border
area between art and media technology, the “OUBEY Digital Discovery Bowl” enables the discovery of art in a virtual interplay of light
between sun and moon. This installation was developed by one of this
year's laureates, Christoph Brosius, for the intercultural experimental
OUBEY MINDKISS project. This has been launched by our Leonardo Ambassador Dagmar Woyde-Koehler more than ten years ago
(www.oubey.com.). It has been gained worldwide remarkable recognition for its unique ways to allow unusual encounters with the work
of the artist OUBEY in its blend of painting, scientific exploration and
philosophical inspiration.
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Agenda of the day at Hotel Kameha Grand Bonn
Am Bonner Bogen 1, 53227 Bonn | September 14, 2015
LEONARDO TRANSFER MEETING AND FESTIVE AWARD CEREMONY
Time
09.15-10.00 hrs: Welcome Coffee and Registration
Room
Foyer Universal
10.00-10.10 hrs: Opening by Alexander R. Petsch and Prof. Dr. W. Sommer
Universal
Leonardo Steering Committee
10.10-10.45 hrs:
Keynote by Dr. Nick van Dam
“My vision for Corporate Learning”
Leonardo Award Winner 2013 "Company Transformation"
Global Chief Learning Officer McKinsey & Company
10.45-11.00 hrs: Questions and Answers
11.00-11.15 hrs: Coffee break
11.15-12.30 hrs: Fishbowl round presented by Dr. Daniel Stoller-Schai
12.45-14.00 hrs: Lunch & Networking
Restaurant
14.15-16.15 hrs: World Café Rounds presented by Dr. Charles Savage
Table Heads: Young Leonardo Laureates 2015
Teemu Arina
DICOLE,
Finland
Claudia Suhov
KIDster,
Romania
Christoph Brosius
Die Hobrechts,
Germany
Dr. Thieu Besselink
The Learning Lab,
Netherlands
Dale J. Stephens
UnCollege,
USA
16.15-17.00 hrs: Review and Conclusion
Closing by Prof. Michael Spencer
18.00 hrs: Cocktail Reception with Laureates & Guests
19.00 hrs: Award Ceremony and Gala Dinner
Presenters: Corinna Pregla and Prof. Michael Spencer Terrace River Rhine
Universal
"Endangered Skills – Discovery in Learning"
Opening Dialogue with Dr. Shyamal Majumdar, Head UNESCO-UNEVOC
and Günther M. Szogs, Leonardo Award Secretary
19.30 hrs: Laureates and Laudators:
Eulogies and Leonardo inspired conversations
22.30 hrs: Laureates Joint Vision:
Desires and goals for future learning
(subject to change without notice)
“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
”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)
FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE LEONARDO AWARD PLEASE CONTACT:
Mrs. Sandra Schall
Mr. Günther M. Szogs
Prof. Dr. Winfried Sommer
Project Manager
Leonardo-Secretary
Steering Committee
HRM Research Institute GmbH
Phone +49 621 40166-335
Phone +49 6174 619087
Phone +49 6232 83602
Rheinkaistr. 2, 68159 Mannheim
s.schall@leonardo-award.eu
g.szogs@leonardo-award.eu
w.sommer@leonardo-award.eu
editor in charge: Sandra Schall
photos: HRM Research Institute – Pfluegl
graphic design: Ines RIchter
Many thanks to our partner and members of the Leonardo Corporate Network:
www.leonardo-award.eu