Sparkasse Oberösterreich – C… what it takes to change

Searching Eurydice – A Passage into the Underground

Martin Hieslmair — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:27:18 +0000

SAT September 6, 2014 11 AM-9 PM, SUN September 7, 2014 11 AM-7 PM
Sparkasse Oberösterreich, Underground parking, Deck 2

Audiovisual Environment inspired by the myth of Orpheus, his descent into the underworld and the attempted rescue of his wife Eurydice. Collaged from material of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Claudio Monteverdi, Daniel Matej, Gregor Göttfert, Igor Strawinsky, Ingeborg Bachmann, Jacques Offenbach, Jean Cocteau, Joseph Haydn, Julian Finnur Karlsson, Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer.

Innovators Tea Time – A/B Group

Martin Hieslmair — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:47:14 +0000

Future Innovators Summit
Groups A/B
FRI September 5, 2014, 5:20 PM-6 PM
Sparkasse Oberösterreich, Promenade 11-13, 4020 Linz

The innovators in Groups A and B will present the results of their Working Sessions at the lobby of the Sparkasse savings bank to Bunker Roy, Zoubida Charrouf and the audience.

What is the Future Innovators Summit?
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Symposium II / Zoubida Charrouf

Martin Hieslmair — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:37:18 +0000

Future Innovators Summit
FRI September 5, 2014, 4:30 PM-5 PM
Sparkasse Oberösterreich, Promenade 11-13, 4020 Linz

The site of the afternoon session of the Future Innovators Summit is the lobby of the Sparkasse savings bank, where the discussion will focus on economic change. Zoubida Charrouf, a chemist on the faculty of Mohammed V University in Morocco, will report on an initiative to help women cultivate medicinal plants and to produce argan oil as a way to improve their own lives and nurture biodiversity in their region.

Zoubida Charrouf (MA)
Zoubida Charrouf is Professor at the Faculty of Science at the University Mohammed V in Rabat and President of the Ibn Al Baytar Association in Morocco. Her field of research is the Phytochemistry of Moroccan medicinal plants and the valorization of their metabolites in cosmetics and nutraceuticals. In addition to fundamental and applied research, disseminates her research and creates income for the empowerment of the women in rural areas and for the conservation of the biodiversity. She has founded the first women’s cooperatives for the production and marketing of argan oil in Morocco and has contributed to the organization of argan oil chain value and its recognition as cosmetic ingredient as well as culinary and functionnel food in the word. Zoubida Charrouf is the author of more than 100 publications on argan and its derivatives and more than 300 papers conferences and presentations.

What is the Future Innovators Summit?
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Symposium II / Sanjit Bunker Roy

Martin Hieslmair — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:29:59 +0000

Future Innovators Summit
FRI September 5, 2014, 4 PM-4:30 PM
Sparkasse Oberösterreich, Promenade 11-13, 4020 Linz

The site of the afternoon session of the Future Innovators Summit is the lobby of the Sparkasse savings bank, where the discussion will focus on economic change. The first speaker is Sanjit Bunker Roy (IN), the founder of Barefoot College that teaches women in rural India to generate electricity and light with solar energy and to build DIY lamps, kettles, parabolic reflectors and solar elements.

Sanjit Bunker Roy (IN)
Sanjit Bunker Roy is the founder and director of the Barefoot College. He received his formal education in The Doon School (1956-62) and St. Stephens College Delhi University (1962-1967). He was the Indian National Squash Champion in 1965, 1967 and 1971. His “real” education started when he dug open wells for drinking water as an unskilled labourer for 5 years (1967-1971). He established the only fully solar electriﬁed Barefoot College in the deserts of Rajasthan in India 40 years ago. It is the only College in India built by the poor and managed by the rural poor who earn less than $ 1/day. Since then the based Barefoot approach has been implemented in over 30 of the Least Developed Countries, a total of 36,000 houses in 1,024 villages have been solar electriﬁed by nearly 300 illiterate rural grandmothers. Without using the written or spoken word they have been trained in 6 months using only sign language in India in the Barefoot College to be solar engineers under a scheme called ITEC of the Government of India. Bunker Roy was identiﬁed as one of the 50 environmentalists who could save the planet by The Guardian in 2008 and as one of the 100 most inﬂuential people in the world by Time magazine in 2010.

What is the Future Innovators Summit?
Here you will find general information: