Right Livelihood Award 25th Anniversary Conference
Winning Alternatives
Work – Culture – Human Dignity
On the occasion of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Alternative Nobel Prize (Right Livelihood Award, RLA) all recipients will meet in Salzburg in June of 2005.
After our 20th anniversary we managed once more to invite all laureates to an international Symposion from June 8th till 13th June 2005 in the city of Salzburg to celebrate the new anniversary. Once again Salzburg presents its self as a place of inspiration for new ideas, as a cultural scene, as a meeting place for perspective discussions of central future topics.
With numerous projects – often realized under the most difficult circumstances – the RLA recipients have impressed the world and offered proof that it is possible to implement visions and ideas into concrete initiatives. According to the founder Jakob von Uexküll, „the Right Livelihood Award aims to help the North find a wisdom to match its science, and the South to find a science to match its ancient wisdom.“
The conference in Salzburg will be devoted to important topics of the future and emphasize the effort to realize „winning alternatives“ (respectively alternatives for One World):
Work – culture – human dignity. The symposium will specially focus on the following challenges for our future:
- the necessity to support a new living quality regarding work, research and management
- the further development of multifarious cultures and regions where people are able to build and secure their livelihood in dignity and in an ecological and socially acceptable way
- justice between as well as the equal treatment of regions, generations and gender
Those solutions of these problems provide an essential basis for the struggle against poverty and a peaceful cooperation in this One World.
The Alternative Nobel Prize recipients from all over the world will meet in St. Virgil, an education and conference center of Salzburg’s archdiocese. The symposion provides the setting for various platforms:
- An intensive contact, an exchange of experience, and a discussion between the Alternative Nobel Prize laureates (on the 9th and 12th of June),
- The meeting and inspiring discussions with the institutions, groups and initiatives in the city as well as in the countryside of Salzburg: with students and professors from three Salzburg universities and colleges of higher education, with students and teachers from institutions of adult education, NGOs, communities, companies, organic farmers etc. All those who are interested will have the opportunity to invite a laureate to
participate in their field of activity (the whole day on the 10th of June) - For all interested institutions and people there will be an international presentation open to the public on two whole days where a maximum of 350 people may take part besides the recipients (June 10th and 11th )
The part of the symposion which is open to the public will provide a great opportunity to establish various contacts, to learn about alternative initiatives and projects and benefit from their experience, be it in the social or cultural sphere or in labour and economics.
„As long as we are able to think about alternatives, we are not lost.
As long as we are able to discuss with each other and make plans together, we may hope.“ (Erich Fromm)
