EU ambassador and startup entrepreneur Ali Mahlodji will open the exciting day program of the Love Tour ’18 on May 16th at 9 a.m. at the Parkhotel Villach (Großer Bambergsaal) with the theme “School with Heart – Just Save the World”. Mahlodji, who fled Iran with his parents as a child, explains how we can better understand each other and how we can grow beyond ourselves. Afterwards it’s about “Lies in the Net – And how we fight better” with internet activist and journalist Ingrid Brodnig. She will show how to better recognize fake news, fight hatred and violence on the internet, and get along better with each other. Ali Mahlodji came in the burn-out – after his drop-out and a bustling odyssey – as a cleaning aid, pharmacy assistant, bricklayer, fast food restaurant employee, but also well-paid managers of a group. A private crisis gave his life a new direction: first working as a teacher, he recognized disorientation as the biggest global problem of youth. He created the internet platform whatchado.com, where people tell in short video clips who they are, what they do, how they became the people they are today, and what matters in life. The international start-up cooperates with more than 300 international organizations and has received was awarded the UN World Summit Award and the State Prize for Education and Knowledge. As an EU youth ambassador he tries, as he says, “to save the world”. How this can succeed is discussed by about 200 students in Villach … (ws)
