Global Sustainable Leaders

19 Nov An Innovative International Awareness Campaign #NoWallsButBridges

B1-AKT Leading Sustainable Strategies & Paragon Communication within the context of its global awareness campaign initiatives inspired by the Global Goals for Sustainable Development is launching a grass root Public Policy/Citizens Diplomacy International awareness campaign, an open social media dialogue.
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22 Août B1-AKT – Consulting board of the Cultural IP Initiative

The Cultural IP Rights Initiative is supported by an ever growing international network of innovative thinkers, change-makers, global sustainable leaders, investing their time, resources and energy in creating a better tomorrow.

More on our experts part of the consulting board on :  https://www.culturalintellectualproperty.com/criteria

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06 Août Proud to be part of the adventure A Heart of Stone

« A Heart of Stone »

The earth beneath our feet has been formed by intense fire and massive pressure; forged upon the anvil of time into the beautiful, natural world we all see today. It can however, at times, also be challenging due to the hand of ‘Man’ and our relentless need to mould nature to our way. Green spaces, that once were an oasis of calm, have become concrete walls that trap us, closing in on us both mentally (the head) as well as emotionally (the heart).

However, we believe that it is still possible to find ourselves in an exquisitely peaceful space, if we just remember that it is always there if we take steps to return to it. Through mindful awareness, we believe that we are all be able to find emotional and psychological healing.

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05 Juil High Potential Lab

When spirited talent collides with fresh and creative ideas…#deepthinkers #thoughtleaders B1-AKT-Leading Sustainable Strategies & Paragon Communication

When spirited talent collides with fresh and creative ideas…#deepthinkers #thoughtleaders B1-AKT-Leading Sustainable Strategies & Paragon Communication

Insight

  • Strategic Management & Leadership
  • Contribute to strategic development
  • Strategic performance management
  • Behavioral Attitudes & Postures Organisational Direction and
  • Processes
  • A culture of sustainability : Sustainable Development Strategy
  • Lean Management & Agility
  • Management Hard Skills
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28 Juin B1-AKT Sparked the change in Paris

Proud supporters of Spark the Change

The essential human skills of empathy or understanding a consumer, defining and calibrating a problem into a problem statement, solving it creatively and collaboratively for the user, and designing solutions that create impact are all skills of the future.

Also, the emergence of the new “sandwich generation” – people in their forties and fifties who are struggling to juggle work with caring for children and elderly parents – combined with smartphone technology, which blurs the boundaries of work and home, has placed people under additional pressure.

Organizations need to take better care of their people and recognize how the demands of work can affect their physical and mental health, as well as their ability to perform well at work. That means placing health and wellbeing at the heart of an organisation.

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22 Juin Holonomics Lab

« Business where people and planet matter »Holonomics approach is a concept we call ‘the dynamics of seeing’. The reason is that within general business practice there is an implicit assumption that the world ‘out there’ is a given and that people simply have different opinions about it. One of the qualities of a truly great designer is that the manner in which they experience the reality is dynamic, always searching for new ways of seeing and understanding the world.

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30 Mai The Outsider » – Interview of our Founder Laura Petrache

1) D’où venez-vous, Laura, et quel a été, en quelques mots, votre parcours ?
Where do you come from Laura, and, in a few words, what has been your experience ?

I was born in Romania but I have a profound love for the United States of America where I lived an important period of my life. I discovered there that excellence exists and the path of professionalism is made of a” savant mélange” of humanity, skills, open-mindedness and making decisions. United States of America gave me the chance to act and to innovate. Personally, I define innovation as a social, collaborative process involving artists, scientists, humanists and industry professionals working together on new problems and opportunities raised by technological and cultural change.

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21 Mai Immersive Leadership Lab

Business leaders today have to be constantly accessible and attentive; they are under immense pressure to respond to ever more complex challenges with a level of insight that has to be truly world class to compete.

Immersive Leadership is an experience that connects leaders to one of the most important sources of emotional intelligence, decision making and resilience – reflection. As the gateway to critical awareness, reflection has never been more important, yet the art is being lost on a generation of leaders.

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12 Avr Sustainability Learning Lab

Education for sustainability develops the knowledge, skills, values and world-views necessary for people to act in ways that contribute to more sustainable patterns of living. It enables individuals and communities to reflect on ways of interpreting and engaging with the world. Sustainability education is futures-oriented, focusing on protecting environments and creating a more ecologically and socially just world through informed action.

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10 Avr Transition Design Lab

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” Buckminster Fuller.

Visions for transitions to sustainable societies are needed, based upon the reconception of entire life-styles that are human scale, place-based, but globally connected in their exchange of technology, information and culture. These visions are based upon communities that are in symbiotic relationships to the ecosystems within which they are embedded.

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23 Mar B1-AKT crafts for change with SONU

B1-AKT is proud to announce the partnership with SONU – Sorbonne pour l’Organisation des Nations Unies.

Crafting for Change is a project from the Development Division from Sorbonne for the United Nations Organisation SONU. This project aims to help communities in distress through the development of craftsmanship.

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25 Fév Migrant Integration Lab / Migrant Entrepreneurship in Europe

Migrant Integration Lab / Europe

Laura Petrache is talking about migrant entrepreneurship, mentors & migrant relation, intercultural dialogue and networking By supporting migrant and social entrepreneurship we enable others in the wider community to recognize the contributions which migrants bring and this is a very important issue.

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19 Fév B1-AKT Report on RAPID & SUSTAINABLE MIGRANT HOLISTIC INTEGRATION

2018-02-19 Report migrant integration solutions short version B1-AKT Yannick Le Guern Laura Petrache

 

MIGRANT INTEGRATION LAB

« A sustainable solution to a world-wide crisis »

 

The purpose of this report is to serve as a guide for national and international integration governments, actors and facilitators, policy makers, to turn a crisis into a societal, economic, cultural and sustainable development advantage.

This report is based on

  • The description of a holistic device of migrants* sustainable integration designed & created by B1-AKT
  • Practical integration experiments in 7 countries,
  • Feedback, evaluation and international benchmark as to extract efficient integration practices.

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06 Déc New Leadership Voices 2 : Laura Petrache

“For me New Leadership is all about courage, creativity, sustainability and faith in people.

It’s a values-based leadership. Leaders as in “global sustainable leaders” need to be motivated by common values, rather than just financial performance.

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06 Déc New Leadership voices: Yannick Le Guern

Yannick Le Guern :

« For me, the new leadership is change making, driven by transcendent purposes and develops global sustainability.

In my opinion, new leadership must be based on :

  • values of humanism,
  • on a will of evolution
  • and concrete actions, to develop local sustainable communities, in a global context of interdependency.

The new leaders must be aware of a mission, ethically driven, developing axiological action, in other words: creating sustainable communities interacting around common values.

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« For me, the new leadership is change making, driven by transcendent purposes and develops global sustainability.

In my opinion, new leadership must be based on :

  • values of humanism,
  • on a will of evolution
  • and concrete actions, to develop local sustainable communities, in a global context of interdependency.

The new leaders must be aware of a mission, ethically driven, developing axiological action, in other words: creating sustainable communities interacting around common values.

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28 Nov Iconic Pavlina Proteou – CEO of Beyond CSR

Founder and CEO of Beyond CSR, a startup social entrepreneurship organization, aiming at turning Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into a Systemic Change and Impact Investment Tool, linking today’s to tomorrow’s business models. We map out the territory for grass roots initiatives, projects that bring innovative solutions that respond to social challenges. Currently we are working on 40+ project, on 40/50+ Start uppers and launching Social Entrepreneurship Clusters, the best idea of our grass roots solutions oriented social media Digital Diplomacy campaign on Refugee Crisis.

Read more on:

http://modelforacause.com/2017/11/15/the-1-line-strategy-to-grow-your-business-keep-it-simple/

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23 Nov Creative Europe & Sustainable Projects – B1 LAB by Yannick Le Guern

Executive Master Management & Entrepreneurship in the Creative Economy – Audencia Nantes.

#Lab #CreativeEurope #CreativeIndustries

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21 Nov Change Makers: Laura Petrache & Project Together

The Project Together Community is a group of young change makers, coaches and social entrepreneurs from all over Germany and Europe. We offer you a space for connecting with like-minded people, mutual collaboration, network and know-how. Get into action and benefit from each other’s knowledge, expertise and network. Let´s solve the world´s biggest challenges together and co-create our future.

https://www.facebook.com/ProjectTogethergUG/

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13 Nov Social Innovation to Tackle Fuel Poverty – COP 23

Ashoka and the Schneider Electric Foundation, in partnership with Enel and networking partner B1-AKT announce the 15 winners of the 2017-2018 “Social Innovation to Tackle Fuel Poverty” programme in Europe during COP23 in Bonn, Germany.

TFP17-18 COP23 Press Release B1AKT Ashoka

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09 Nov B1-AKT is proud to support UK based partner – Create Seven

The role of Create Seven will be to develop and enable post conventional leaders to co-create a better future.

Today ‘conventional’ leaders in our organisations are struggling to adapt to increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA). The decisions made by
Leaders in our organisations collectively create the society in which we live.

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27 Oct Migrant Integration Lab – Assemblée Nationale Française

Proud contributors to Mister Aurélien Taché’ s report on integration député LRM #Pour une #politique ambitieuse d’intégration des étrangers arrivant en France.”

Download report here: Pour une politique ambitieuse d’intégration des étrangers arrivant en France

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14 Oct How Migrant Entrepreneurship could shape Good Long-Term Economic Growth of Europe

Umesh Mukhi, Founding Director, Sustainable Leadership Initiative,

The migrant crisis has been one of the most prominent issues faced by European Union. I think its crucial to find change-makers who are trying to create significant social impact by training migrants to become competitive work force for EU. I had a chance to meet Yannick Le Guern & Laura Petrache and ask them few questions about their initiative MIGRANT INTEGRATION LAB which aims to resolve such complex issue. I hope readers would be able to draw some inspiration and insights to follow their path.

  • The project seems to be very unique, can you share with us about what were the key motivators to pursue Migrant Lab?

Yes, indeed it actually is and not seems to be . As I encountered some of the issues that migrants are encountering now days and after an experience in Syrian ground, I wanted to build together with Yannick the co-founder of MIGRANT INTEGRATION LAB, a global European device permitting the sustainable integration of migrants and ethnic minorities. For us a welcoming culture is one that contributes by helping migrants, newcomers and their families overcome obstacles in all areas of life, while also providing business start-up assistance and targeted employment. This is why we facilitate and foster economic and social integration of migrants by supporting them in the development of new business initiatives.

 

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01 Oct Exciting New Partnership Announcement B1-AKT – Sciences-Po Refugee Help

Migrant Integration Lab- Sustainable Solutions and B1-AKT-Leading Sustainable Strategies & Paragon Communication are pleased to announce Sciences Po Refugee Help Leading Partnership.

Sciences Po Refugee Help is a student association working to uphold the rights of refugees and asylum seekers in France through short and long-term aid and integration.

Born in September 2015, at the heavily mediatised peak of the European refugee crisis, their goal was first and foremost to bring emergency humanitarian aid to street camps and housing centres in the Île de France region. Since, the association has also started working towards longer-term initiatives, specifically regarding the integration of asylum seekers and refugees.

More on: http://refugeehelp.fr/home/aboutus/index.html

 

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05 Sep Master Ecole Centrale-Supélec Empowered by Yannick Le Guern

#B1-Lab #Innovation #ChangeMakersEmpowerment

Le Mastère Spécialisé® Management et Direction de Projets Aboutit à la réalisation d’objectifs prédéterminés et créer de la valeur, à partir de contributions dispersées dans un environnement de plus en plus complexe : tel est le défi du manager de projets.

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01 Sep Fostering inclusiveness of European youth participation

How can youth participation channels become accessible to all?

Fostering inclusiveness of European youth participation

 

Discussants:

Michalis Moschovakos, Policy Officer

European Commission, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture

Youth, Volunteer Solidarity and Traineeships Office

Laura Petrache & Yannick Le Guern, Founder & CEO

B1-AKT leading sustainable strategies & paragon communication

Valentin Dupouey, Secretary-General

JEF Europe

Céline Guedes, Junior Policy Officer

Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS)

Millennial Dialogue Project

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26 Août Sustainable Solutions for Leading Change

Sustainable Solutions for leading Change with B1-AKT-Leading Sustainable Strategies & Paragon Communication “Paragon Communication Lab”, against violence.

Context: UNESCO’s Academy of Young Women in Bucharest, Romania.

Publications:

UNESCO Academy Women Europe B1-AKT Le Guern Petrache english UNESCO

Academy Women Europe B1-AKT Le Guern Petrache Romana

Violence against women and children has far-reaching consequences, resulting in significant death and disability. Developing cultural competence results in an ability to understand, communicate with, and effectively interact with people across cultures, and work with varying cultural beliefs and schedules.

The main question as to construct dialogue with the participants: « What are the specific postures, behaviors, tips in order to communicate and conduct Projects and become a global sustainable leader when you are a Woman?

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10 Août European Cooperation for Sustainable Integration

B1-AKT-Leading Sustainable Strategies & Paragon Communication and Migrant Integration Lab- Sustainable Solutions are proud to unite their forces to Refugees Foundation (e.V., Support for Refugees on the Run ) in Serbia.

Refugees Foundation was founded in Belgrade in August 2016 by two young people to make the world a better place. Since it was initiated, Refugees Foundation has been trying to improve educational and professional opportunities of young refugees.

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20 Juil B1-AKT Supporting Women Entrepreneurship

B1-AKT-Leading Sustainable Strategies & Paragon Communication is thrilled and proud to support and become partner of the Global WEP-women entrepreneurship.

The Global Women’s Enterprise Project is a web-based enterprise incubation platform targeted at meeting the full spectrum of startup needs for female entrepreneurs.

This includes business planning and strategy, financial management, idea scaling, and legal advice.

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23 Juin B1-AKT for Social Innovation – To Tackle Fuel Poverty

 « B1-AKT is  Joining Ashoka, Schneider Electric Foundation and Enel for Social Innovation »

Fuel poverty has become a major problem in Europe. There are between 50 and 125 million people who struggle every day to ensure adequate heating, light, and cooking power in their dwelling at an affordable price (European Parliamentary Research Service). This has a severe impact on their health and wellbeing. Creative and systems-changing solutions are needed to transform this issue in an opportunity for these people to thrive.

After a successful partnership in 2015-2016, the Schneider Electric Foundation, under the aegis of the Fondation de France, and Ashoka, have renewed their commitment to helping improve the living conditions of millions of people facing fuel poverty in Europe.

It is by offering support to the most innovative social entrepreneurs in Europe that we can help entire communities tackle fuel poverty and move towards energy sustainability. The 2017-2018 edition is realised in partnership with Enel and B1-AKT .

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22 Juin Cube. »Your take on Europe » teams up with B1-AKT and empowers the European future

CUBE. Your Take on Europe aims at educating, engaging and empowering young people across Europe to envisage the future they want to live in. CUBE gathers diverse opinions across the European Union and reinvigorates European civil society by amplifying these untold stories in Brussels. CUBE facilitates this process in three steps: it provides a workshop toolkit for teachers, creates a digital platform for European youth organisations, and aspires to become a European youth lobby.

Toolkit: CUBE provides a digital workshop toolkit on its website containing educational material triggering critical reflection on the future of the European Union:

The Toolkit is yours! The toolkit can be downloaded by teachers and facilitators. The workshops take place in your local school, ensuring that all youngsters can participate, regardless of their background. Within the familiarity of classrooms, individual counter-narratives can be shared while critical thinking is being fostered.

http://cubeyourtake.eu/concept/

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21 Juin B1-AKT and Beyond CSR – Game Changers: the 40+ Project

BeyondCSR within the context of its Global Goals on Sustainable Development Initiatives, launches in collaboration with Impact Hub Athens, on Tuesday March 14th, at 18:00-21:00 at the premises of Impact Hub “The 40+ project: The GameChangers”; with the support (among others) of: B1-AKT, European Parliament’s Representation in Greece, European Commission’s Representation to Greece, The Embassy of Israel, The Kingdom of the Netherlands in Greece, Hellenic Federation of IT and Telecoms (SEPE), the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, the Hellenic Start-up Association, ESADE Business and Law School Alumni, the Circle of Inspiring Women for Sustainable Development (CIWOS), and the New Consumers Institute of Greece.

The idea: Global Goals 4,5, 8, 10; Tackle social, age, gender stereotypes and inequality, promote career change to 40+ age group.

40+project

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15 Juin B1-AKT partner of the international EdYOUfest Festival

B1-AKT teams up with Oremis Plaisir d’Apprendre- EdYOUfest is led by a consortium of master teachers & entrepreneurs who share a vision of bringing the Start Up movement to education. We do this by sourcing amazing locations around the world, building very carefully curated communities of teachers and learners, doers and makers, creators, artists and investors, and bringing them all together for three and a half days of collaboration, sharing, and idea ignition. EdYOUfests usually begin on a Friday evening and conclude on a Tuesday morning.

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30 Mai B1-AKT supports UK Sustainable Fashion

MARAINA Ltd. is a new company based in London making handbags and kids clothing. It was born when the two sisters Jenny and Caroline Randria wanted to change the way we consume and buy fashion products. Born and raised in Madagascar, they always wanted not only to promote the artisans know-how there but also care about the human aspect of the production chain. They believe in a fairer and better fashion industry by offering these worker a better social supports such as better wages, free transportation fare, free meals. For each product sold we also commit to donate a part of our sale. MARAINA Ltd. represents two brands: “MARAINA LONDON” for its handmade bags collection and “CITRON JAUNE” for its beautiful kids clothing collection.

More on: https://maraina-london.com/pages/about-us

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02 Avr B1-AKT is Shaping the cultural future of Europe

Актуелне прилике за успостављање партнерстава

B1 АКТ je организација из Француске, заинтересована за учешће у пројектима европске сарадње, а пре свега успостављање стратешког партнерства са организацијом из Србије која би била носилац пројекта. B1 АКТ има искуство као лидер у европским пројектима сарадње, и спремна је да пружи неопходну подршку као партнер.

Теме којима се баве тичу се културне, одрживе уметничке заједнице и глобалне активизма грађанства, као и питања европских интеграција.
Више о њима можете сазнати на www.b1-akt.com. и http://www.artsetmondes.com.

Контакт е-мејл: lp@b1-akt.com; ylg@b1-akt.com

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13 Mar B1-AKT & CNR UNESCO join their forces against violence

UNESCO'S ACADEMY B1AKTworkshop

 « Academy of Young Women »

The fight against xenophobia, extremism and aggression

Romania – Bucharest August 2017

B1-AKT is honoured to assure an international workshop during the CNR-UNESCO’S ACADEMY OF YOUNG WOMEN, that will take place at in Romania, in August 2017.

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01 Mar Conference  » Linguistical politics and multilinguism in Europe » Y. Le Guern – L. Petrache

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Yannick Le Guern et Laura Petrache – B1-AKT donnent une conférence  sur le thème  » Apprentissage des langues et intégration sociale – Ressorts interculturels du Migrant Integration Lab « 

UFR d’études interculturelles de Langues Appliquées. Université Paris-Diderot.

Séminaire doctoral « Politiques Linguistiques et plurilinguisme en Europe ». Sous la direction de J.C. Herreras.

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30 Jan « Empowering Social Entrepreneurs for Innovation and for a sustainable civil society » with Yannick Le Guern

« Empowering Social Entrepreneurs for Innovation and for a sustainable civil society with Yannick Le Guern« 

Today, a culture of entrepreneurship that encourages and supports the five skills -questioning, observing, networking, experimenting and associative thinking -is increasingly powerful.
Unfortunately, a natural pattern in the evolution of the French enterprises makes it very difficult for established companies to do this. In the earliest stages of any new business, the most important thing is to come up with a product or service that people will pay for; and this is the stage when the five discovery skills are so important.

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28 Nov Global Sustainable Leaders Meet up & Working Session

Our sustainable social and business models are creating a larger awareness and social Impact.

We

  • Promote International Development
  • Develop Sustainable Leaders by means of Programs and Trainings, Labs and Sustainable Learning
  • Promote cooperation with other countries

We Raise awareness about the actions carried out at local, national and international levels by institutions and governments in favor of innovation, dialogue, understanding and cooperation among peoples, cultures and religions and also act by implementing social and societal projects.

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