“People must dance more together”, Bernhard Hoeper told EUGAD in an interview. When people connect through their heart, the information touches them at a much greater degree; and this is what “Eight” aimed at.
Let’s unite, STAND UP and take action. Organized by Filmbooth, in collaboration with the UN, EU and many other non-profit organizations; ‘Eight’ was a two day film festival (18-19 Sep 2010) aimed to raise awareness, motivate and unite people – through the medium of short films, workshops, seminars – and bring their heart closer with each others and with humanity for the achievements of the MDGs. The festival ended with a mesmerizing concert combining Indian classical music’s from all of India’s corners.
While focusing on India’s achievements and failures, the speaker also mentioned the importance India’s achievements hold for the worldwide achievements of the MDGs worldwide. “If India progresses, the world progresses, without us you are going to miss your target” told Nafisa Ali, a social activist and actor.
The speaker also debated over the re-definition of what progress really means and what the GDP really measures. “We are unlikely to meet any of these goals unless we re-define what progress really is” said Dr. Pachauri, chairmen of the IPCC – the organization which won the Nobel peace price with Al Gore
In this time when we are in the middle of the UN meeting on the MDGs, it is important to remind ourselves of the underling poetry to this commitment. It is time to remind our government to have the courage to Stand Up and its people the courage to share.
The idea of bringing together the partners in the capital of Bulgaria in our attempt to create a mutual ground for cultural exchanges and reinforced partnership proved to be most beneficial.
The team coordinating the event managed to establish a learning mind-set, ideas-open, creative environment, while resolving aspects related to project coordination in the context of cultural expectation, further planning and technical steps. Several discussion themes to acknowledge, most notably – the role of the Eastern European partners in reaching the local authorities and participating in the policy making process, attracting the media and local actors to support further steps in cooperation for development.
The element of diversity turns out to be the key ingredient in expanding and strengthening the European Union, its global role and significant effort for implementing the MDGs. In the context of Eugad event in Sofia, understanding the impact of cultural differences, cross-cultural management skills and positive cross-cultural working relationships were just a few lessons to mention.
Incidentally, encouraging representation of Rroma ethnic minority in contemplating new venues to work together has generated significant ideas on participation in shaping the local policies for social inclusion and improved education system with long-term impact on modern European society.
Attitude towards managerial style – a consequence of cultural expectations. While promoting a rather flexible and open approach, in the attempt of encouraging initiative and creativity among the partners in implementing the project, the need for closer communication and guidance has been identified during the partnership meeting in Bulgaria.
In our effort to raise cultural awareness and enable us to communicate effectively across national cultures, our partners workshop meeting was meant and succeeded to stimulate our beyond-self-culture personal curiosity and consequently sets the ground for us to work more effectively with our counterparts from neighbor cultures.
These problems used to exist earlier and still exit today. The MDGs have interlinked all these problems by bringing them together. Income’s relation with food security, and these two’s relation with education and all these combined relation with the environment… the MDGs have created a platform to think about all these issues together and not keep them compartmentalized as different.
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The idea of bringing together the partners in the capital of Bulgaria in our attempt to create a mutual ground for cultural exchanges and reinforced partnership proved to be most beneficial.
