elpfellow - Jesuit European Social Centre https://jesc.eu Vision and Values for Europe Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:38:34 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Can the Amazon rainforest be saved? https://jesc.eu/can-the-amazon-rainforest-be-saved/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=can-the-amazon-rainforest-be-saved Tue, 05 Nov 2019 13:42:02 +0000 https://jesc.eu/?p=4367 In the context of the Amazon Synod, the question of the impact of humankind on nature has been put forward. On Thursday 24 October, the ELP Fellows had the pleasure of a discussion with Juan Diego, a Jesuit from Chile specializing in Indigenous human rights. The Amazon rainforest; a place of biodiversity and people The […]

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]]> Shabka is my family https://jesc.eu/shabka-is-my-family/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shabka-is-my-family Tue, 05 Nov 2019 11:48:24 +0000 https://jesc.eu/?p=4357 Lukas WANK, the director of Shabka, was thinking a lot about how to engage people in critical thinking. He worked as a conflict analyst, a political advisor, a civil engineer, a kitchen hand, a soldier and a graphic designer. He has a lot of experience and ideas, especially in the field of security, and he […]

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]]> ELP Meets Commissioner Violeta Bulc https://jesc.eu/elp-meets-commissioner-violeta-bulc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=elp-meets-commissioner-violeta-bulc Tue, 05 Nov 2019 11:33:00 +0000 https://jesc.eu/?p=4354 On October 17, the European Leadership Programme Fellows met with Violeta Bulc, the Transport Commissioner of the Juncker Commission. The one and one-half hour long discussion gave us plenty of food for thought about the virtues of the current EU political structure and the techniques of successful leadership. EU institutional structure: A unique and exemplary […]

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]]> Stratagem Simulation Game – When Union is Strength https://jesc.eu/stratagem-simulation-game-when-union-is-strength/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stratagem-simulation-game-when-union-is-strength Tue, 05 Nov 2019 11:08:46 +0000 https://jesc.eu/?p=4350 On Sunday 13 October, the ELP fellows, together with other participants, attended a seminar  titled “Call to Public Life”. We had the opportunity to get involved in the “government” of an overpopulated, but resourceful country, through a role-play called Stratagem, where different teams, representing the executive branch of a fictional country, had to find the […]

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