Climate change, pandemic, high inflation and the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine are forcing global travel to undergo a course correction, the effects of which are not yet foreseeable. In order for travelers to continue to be able to live out their longings in the future, however, radical rethinking is required. “Continuing as before
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In Fresach, the German-Afghan Islam researcher Ahmad Milad Karimi encouraged a new understanding of the major world religions and called for a new start in interreligious dialogue between Christians, Jews and Muslims. In doing so, he held his own fellow believers responsible in particular. “Muslims must rise up in revolt and stop pretending that everything
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The well-known Munich neuromarketing expert Hans-Georg Häusel explained in his introductory statement “How does the new come into the world” that it is primarily the emotional systems that drive us. It is the ongoing tension in the brain that people try to balance and thereby intuitively cause change. Two central tasks drive humans evolutionarily. survival
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“The change in our society is currently not coming from democratic-political movements, but from autocrats, war and the pandemic. This presents our democracy with major challenges that we can only master if we overcome the polarization of the population and learn to make compromises again.” Political scientist Sieglinde Rosenberger came to this conclusion during the
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The Viennese political scientist and integration researcher Sieglinde Rosenberger was awarded the European Tolerance Prize for Democracy and Human Rights by the City of Villach in Fresach on Thursday evening. According to the jury, Rosenberger had sensitized generations of students to political participation, diversity and inclusion. Sieglinde Rosenberger researches and teaches at the University of
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The European Tolerance Talks 2022 were opened on Thursday in the Carinthian mountain village of Fresach with a historically based plea for a “post-national European democracy”. The European Union has always developed out of and through crises, and is currently confronted with “multiple crises”. In order to overcome these crises, Europe must bid farewell to
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The European Tolerance Talks (June 1 to 4, 2022) will again be broadcast in full and live on the Internet this year. “We want to make it possible for the many international supporters of our dialogue forum to be there if they are unable to come themselves,” says Superintendent Manfred Sauer from the Carinthian organizer
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This year’s European Tolerance Talks from 1 to 4 June 2022 in Fresach promise nothing less than a program for the reorganization of Europe. On the occasion of the presentation of the program on March 9th in the Club Carinthia of the Oberbank Vienna, the President of the Board, Hannes Swoboda, said: “Regardless of what
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Climate change, the corona pandemic and now the Russian aggression war towards Ukraine have taught us with all severity: The world is in upheaval, and CHANGE is mostly the result of external constraints. This raises the question of how complex systems work and how new things can be established. This is exactly what the European
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At its Annual General Meeting in Klagenfurt on Wednesday, the Board of Trustees of the European Tolerance Talks 2022 presented its 2022 program and in this context called for a systemic change in politics and business. The talks will take place in Villach and Fresach from June 1st to 4th. The Federal Government of Carinthia
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On the occasion of the program presentation of the European Tolerance Talks 2022, the President of the Carinthian Federal Parliament, Reinhart Rohr, expressed his confidence that the future of the Talks will be secured for the coming years with the support of the City of Villach, the State of Carinthia and the Federal Government. Provincial
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 “Influencing people and events positively”: That is what leadership is about, explained the management consultant and business coach Peter Baumgartner at the final panel discussion on “Leadership and fairness in times of crisis”. While good management consisted of “delegating” in earlier times, today leadership is a highly complex activity, emphasized burnout advisor Evelyne Hubert-Reitan at
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For the well-known journalist and democracy advocate Roger de Weck, the time of right-wing populists is over. But in order to strengthen democracy, it urgently needs to be modernized, said the former “Die Zeit” editor and head of Swiss television during an exciting panel discussion in Fresach. He is optimistic that politics can free itself
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“The most important thing in education is learning how to learn,” said Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, President Emeritus of the Board of Directors at Nestlé at the Economic Forum of the European Tolerance Talks in Fresach. The right attitude and the iron will to learn new things every day are ultimately more important for career prospects and
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For the Austrian Chamber of Labor, the corona pandemic has shown the limits of the globalized world. With lockdowns, the restriction of freedom of movement and new border controls in the middle of Europe, production routes were suddenly interrupted and just-in-time deliveries made impossible. Medicines and protective masks such as gloves were missing because their
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Man has responsibility for the world: This can be deduced equally from the Bible, Torah and Koran. Representatives of the major religious communities agreed on this during the discussion “Beautiful world, ugly reality” within the framework of the European Tolerance Talks in 2021. Many problems of our time are related to the fact that humans
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The journalist, author and editor of the weekly newspaper “Die Furche”, Heinz Nussbaumer (77), was awarded the European Tolerance Prize 2021 for democracy and human rights from the Austrian PEN Club and the city of Villach in Fresach on Thursday evening. Nussbaumer is a bridge builder and a “pilgrim in the sea of excited voices”,
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The European Union did quite well during the pandemic. But in order for the pan-European project to really have a future, it needs the will to change. That was the rsult of the panel discussion “New globalization, old nationalisms” at the start of the European tolerance talks on Thursday in Fresach. In any case, the
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The founder of the first liberal mosque and women’s rights activist Seyran Ateş called for “absolute equality” in her key note to the European Tolerance Talks in Carinthia. “Equal rights without changing roles and at eye level for all people: this goal should drive us all to finally achieve a fair society,” said the well-known
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There is no alternative to ethical and sustainable business practices in tourism, tourism professionals of the younger generation are convinced of this. Economy for the common good could increasingly take the place of profit maximization. It takes time and patience, but in the end it pays off for everyone, explained destination expert Kerstin Dohnal on
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Whether in your own environment, in politics, in business or in sports – fairness is an important basic principle for social coexistence and the best path to success. This was the conclusion of the opening discussion in the youth forum of the 7th European Tolerance Talks, which on Wednesday 19th May brought together experts from
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Tolerance in times of the pandemic – this means fairness and leadership are required. It is precisely when things are not going well politically or economically that the true character of people and systems becomes apparent. How and why we have to redefine advancing globalization will be discussed by experts at the 7th European Tolerance
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In the run-up to the European Tolerance Talks 2021 in the Carinthian mountain village Fresach, the globalization expert of the Vienna Chamber of Labor, Valentin Wedl, initiated a political discussion about rethinking globalization and redesigning it so that it not only brings advantages for the large corporations and export markets, but becomes “fair for everyone”.
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The 7th European Tolerance Talks – “FAIRNESS – The New Globalization” – will take place this year from May 19-22, 2021 as planned. “However, the first day in Villach will only be able to take place online, as the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences is still in distance learning.” This was announced by Superintendent and
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Future thinker Max Thinius from Berlin said that citizens and society can find more fairness again with artificial intelligence. Digitization will lead to a new globalization, we will leave the industrial age and the alienation of our means of production behind us by thinking differently, digitally and networked. More on pressetext.
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On Feb 25th, the Governor of Carinthia, Peter Kaiser, presented the program and goals of the European Tolerance Talks 2021 in Klagenfurt – together with Villach’s Vice Mayor Gerda Sandriesser, Superintendent Manfred Sauer and the President of the Board, Hannes Swoboda,  “The pandemic has brought about many changes – one of the most important changes is
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“Just like in sport, we should do it in daily life. Fairness and respect always pay off in the end,” appealed the multiple table tennis world champion and Paralympics winner Jochen Wollmert during an online discussion on Wednesday evening on the occasion of the program presentation of the European Tolerance Talks 2021. The topic of
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Jochen Wollmert is multiple table tennis world champion and Paralympics winner, German Paralympics athlete of the decade and the first German table tennis player in the “Hall of Fame” of the world association. On Ash Wednesday from 6 p.m. he will be guest in the tolerance forum live stream on the subject of fairness in
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Fairness and tolerance in times of the pandemic are the keywords with which the organizers of the European tolerance talks are going into 2021. The consequences of the pandemic extend far beyond physical integrity and health and affect the economy, culture and sport equally. What must be done now so that our social structure continues
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A virus, of all things, has given globalization critics, right-wing populists and supporters of isolationist politics new tailwind. Trump’s America and Johnson’s Great Britain prepared the ground for a climate of exclusion, demarcation and containment – and thus caused new signs of decline. Even if there is an economic boom after the end of the
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Bruno Kreisky Prize winner Roger de Weck has agreed to come to the European Forum of the European Tolerance Talks on May 20, 2021 in Fresach to discuss his award-winning book “The Power of Democracy. An answer to the authoritarian reactionaries” (Suhrkamp). In it, the well-known Swiss author and honorary doctorate from the Universities of
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The well-known Turkish-German lawyer and women’s rights activist Seyran Ateş opened the European Tolerance Talks 2021 in the Carinthian mountain village Fresach with a brilliant and emotional speech. She called for “absolute equality without changing roles and at eye level for all people: this goal should drive us all to finally achieve a fair society”.
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One session at the Tourism Forum Villach on May 27th was devoted to the “utopia of travel”. Our author and speaker Ingrid Thurner, prevented from attending on Pentecost for health reasons, has now added her contribution. She asks whether travel under the Corona regime can work. And whether the retreat from the distance into a
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“If managers fail, it is often due to basic character traits. These people fail as managers because they do not sufficiently integrate employees, do not create a positive working atmosphere and thus misinterpret many things.” With this assessment, Herbert Unterköfler, Managing Director at Korn Ferry Vienna, caused a lively discussion at the closing panel of
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New territory and experiment at the same time – the 6th European Tolerance Talks 2020 in Carinthia were a milestone for organization, contributors and the public. The three-day dialogue forum was frequented by well over 3,000 visitors online after the museum was only partially accessible on site. All sessions and panel discussions are available on
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Europe must use the solution to the Corona crisis to reform its economic system. Justice is the order of the day, especially in the tax system. Fair distribution is also a must in agriculture, as is innovation and creativity. In this way, Europe not only survives the crisis, but also emerges stronger from it. This
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More really sustainable action in business life and probably also a little bit waiver: Only in this way can the climate be saved even after the Coronoa crisis, as the panel discussion “Get out of the comfort zone” as part of the European Tolerance Talks 2020 on Friday morning showed. The over-bureaucratic state should take
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Latin America translator Erna Pfeiffer (67) was awarded the European Tolerance Prize 2020 for Democracy and Human Rights by the Austrian PEN Club and the city of Villach on Thursday evening in Fresach. In her texts and translations, the author manages to break through seemingly insurmountable language barriers so that a dialogue can arise, the
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Politicians and the church should be able to support people in coping with the Corona crisis and provide answers to the question of meaning. The church has to shed its rigid structures, politics has to escape its selfishness and national solo efforts. That was the basic tenor of the two afternoon panels at the European
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At the start of the European Tolerance Talks in Fresach, the President of the Board, former MEP Hannes Swoboda, warned on Thursday morning of rising poverty and increasing ecological inequality. Those who show “a little social conscience” do so in their own interest. Because reducing inequality is a contribution to a more peaceful world with
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Corona is an opportunity to redefine travel and put it in a planetary context. Now that the tourism industry is at a standstill, a move away from insatiable mass tourism and the destruction of the environment is possible. With this statement, “travel philosopher” Klaus Kufeld opened the discussion on the tourism forum of the 6th
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Only a “new enlightenment” protects humanity from the destruction of its environment and all of its resources. With this message, the German environmental researcher and Club of Rome Honorary President Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker opened the European Tolerance Talks on Thursday morning. In it Weizsäcker spoke of the exodus from the “full world”, which is
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“Young people are not politically disinterested, but only extremely critical when it comes to the political-institutional apparatus. They have lost touch on the level of communication and content.” With this assessment, the Viennese youth researcher Bernhard Heinzlmaier sparked an exciting discussion at the 6th European Tolerance Talks. The online chat with politicians and climate activists
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Blackout, lockdown or exodus – no matter what terms are used to describe the current corona crisis: We will have to live with the devastating consequences for culture, economy and society for a long time to come. How we deal with this and what opportunities there are in the crisis are the subject of the
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The corona pandemic is likely to affect industry and economy more severely than expected – with long-term consequences for people and the environment. If the stress on the economy becomes too great, not only the desired ‘green deal’, but the entire society will be left behind,” warns Norbert Zimmermann, Chairman of the SBO Supervisory Board
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ORF report moderator Susanne Schnabl-Wunderlich spoke with Günther Apfalter, Head of Europe of the Austro-Canadian car supplier Magna-Steyr. What lessons he learned from the Corona crisis, why he wants to rethink our behavior and striving for even more economic growth, why politics must finally decide in the climate crisis, fear is a bad advisor and
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Personal blows of fate and crises should not be unnecessarily paralyzed by fears and inner doubts. The naturopath and athlete Christina Wechsel knows this from her own experience: Although she lost a leg in an accident in Australia, she did not lose her heart. As part of the Youth Forum of the European Tolerance Talks,
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The corona virus has brought the travel industry to a standstill. There will be no vacation in the previous form until further notice. On the occasion of the Villach Tourism Forum as part of the #ETG20, the pressetext news agency spoke with Elisabeth Kneissl-Neumayer, Managing Director of tour operator Kneissl Touristik, about the consequences of
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Only four weeks before the Tolerance Talks 2020 we start the campaign for the 3rd Villach Tourism Forum on May 27 (from 2 p.m.). Please make a note of the appointment. We discuss the utopia (freedom) of travel and the nature (destruction) of people with selected scientists and tourists. The event, originally planned at the
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“The corona pandemic brutally exposes the vulnerability of people and our society and radically exacerbates existing social opposites,” says psychotherapist and author Wolfgang Martin Roth, who will participate in the discussion on May 28th “Community: Strategies Against Selfishness”. Before, in a talk with news agency pressetext he highlighted the consequences of the virus-related exodus from
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