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The Brussels Office of the Bertelsmann Stiftung
The Brussels office of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, one of Europe's largest private foundations, was established in 2000. The office is located at Schuman, in the heart of the EU district and close to the European institutions.
As a think tank in Europe's capital, we contribute to the development of an integrated Europe that is built on the values of freedom, humanity and solidarity. The focus of our work is to advance Europe's potential as a global player in foreign, security, economic and social policy. We analyze worldwide policy approaches and apply lessons learned from them to help Europe realize its vision of a "Union of Member States and Citizens".
The Bertelsmann Stiftung's Brussels office promotes transnational debate about future challenges facing Europe and its citizens. We provide European institutions, think tanks and media with key findings of our project work. Our work is based on the early detection of upcoming international developments that impact Europe and influence the Stiftung's worldwide agenda.
Project DescriptionThe Security Jam
The Security Jam, 4-9 Februar 2010
At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, it is clear that global security challenges increasingly embrace such widespread issues as Climate Change, Human Rights and Development. This has prompted major stakeholders to look beyond conventional means of ensuring input- and has led to the European Commission and NATO joining together to back a worldwide online brainstorm called the Security Jam, held online between February 4th and 9th 2010.
Co-organised by a group of leading think-tanks, the Security & Defence Agenda, Chatham House, The Atlantic Council of the United States, the Global Humanitarian Forum, the Open Society Foundation, SIPRI, Carnegie Europe, CIDOB, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Bertelsmann Stiftung, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Friends of Europe, and in collaboration with IBM, the Munich Security Conference and Europe's World, the Security Jam was designed to allow several thousand representatives and experts from around the globe take part in an online debate on key issues that govern our safety and development.
http://www.securityjam.orgNews
Brussels - 25/02/2010
From Theory to Praxis: Realigning the EU's growth and sustainability strategy
On February 23rd, the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the World Future Council (WFC) jointly held the last out of a set of three debates in the European Parliament dealing with the issue of "Rethinking Well-being. How to keep Europe on the Sustainability Track." The panel series was hosted by three Members of the European Parliament: Rebecca Harms, Jo Leinen, and Sirpa Pietikäinen. At a first meeting in the middle of January participants had discussed the need to go beyond the current GDP-related growth paradigm and to develop a more comprehensive and sustainable understanding in which ways future economic models should contribute to human well-being. The second meeting focused on the question of how to increase the political impact of measurement tools aiming to capture and assess sustainable development in our changing world. During the final panel, the participants focused on possible implications of alternative concepts of well-being on the EU's future growth and sustainability strategy.
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Brussels - 05/02/2010
How to capture and assess well-being in a changing world
On February 3rd, the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the World Future Council (WFC) jointly held the second out of a set of three debates in the European Parliament dealing with the issue of "Rethinking Well-being. How to keep Europe on the Sustainability Track." The panel series is hosted by three Members of the European Parliament: Rebecca Harms, Jo Leinen, and Sirpa Pietikäinen. At a first meeting in the middle of January participants had discussed the need to go beyond the current GDP-related growth paradigm and to develop a more comprehensive and sustainable understanding in which ways future economic models should contribute to human well-being. Taking this debate as a starting point the second panel focused on most recent tools and indicators to define and measure the well-being of societies.
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Brussels - 15/01/2010
Striving for a Living Economy
On January 13th, the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the World Future Council (WFC) jointly organised the first of a set of three panel debates in the European Parliament under the common heading "Rethinking Well-being. How to keep Europe on the Sustainability Track." The panel series is hosted by three Members of the European Parliament: Rebecca Harms, Jo Leinen, and Sirpa Pietikainen and aims to generate input to the new project "Agenda Social Market Economy" which has recently been launched by the Bertelsmann Stiftung.
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Diplomacy, Development and Defense: A Paradigm for Policy Coherence
The end of the Cold War radically changed both classic policies of national and collective security and international strategies for conflict management and the stabilization of precarious states. The threat of Islamic extremism and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have shattered any illusions of a peace dividend and have given strategies against state failure a new urgency.
1st edition, 2009
Paperback
38,00 EUR
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Strategies for Combating Right-Wing Extremism in Europe
Right-wing extremism is a phenomenon that can be found throughout Europe. All democratic societies are threatened by racist, anti-pluralistic and authoritarian ideas.
1st edition, 2009
Paperback
44,00 EUR
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Sustainable Governance Indicators 2009
Despite the limiting effects of growing interdependencies in a globalized world, national governments still have a considerably broad scope of action when it comes to ensuring sustainable policy outcomes. The key question is, however, to what extent governments can identify, formulate and implement effective reforms that render a society well-equipped to meet future challenges.
1st edition, 2009
Paperback
30,00 EUR
detailsAddress: Brussels
Office of the Bertelsmann Stiftung
Résidence Palace
Rue de la Loi 155
B-1040 Brussels
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Tel.: +32 2 280-2830
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upcoming events
Panel Series "Rethinking well-being: How to keep Europe on the sustainability track", co-organized by the World Future Council and the Bertelsmann Stiftung, January 13, February 03, February 23 2010, Brussels.
Spotlight Europe
Elections in Iraq
Iraqi voters have elected a new parliament. Laurie Dundon and Christian-Peter Hanelt of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, the authors of our current "spotlight europe," look at the elections from an American-European perspective. They analyze the internal situation in Iraq, and emphasize that the EU and the US need to work together in order to help Iraq to develop into a stable country.
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The Shadow NATO Summit - Brussels, April 2009: "Options for NATO - pressing the reset button on the strategic concept"
Enhance civil society involvement regarding security issues: Bertelsmann Stiftung organised together with other NGOs a Shadow NATO Summit. On the occassion of the Shadow Summit a Citizens Declaration of Alliance Security was adopted.
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