Young Leonardo Laureates 2015 Teemu Arina, Finland: "Humanity in Digitization" Claudia Suhov, Romania: "Trans-Generational Learning" Christoph Brosius, Germany: "Humor Energized Learning" Dr. Thieu Besselink, Netherlands: "Wisely Smart" Dale J. Stephens, USA: "Education Hacker"

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L E O N A R D O
European Corporate
Learning Award
www.leonardo-award.eu
Leonardo Transfer Meeting and Festive Ceremony
September 14, 2015
Hotel Kameha Grand Bonn, Germany
Young Leonardo Laureates 2015
Teemu Arina, Finland: "Humanity in Digitization"
Claudia Suhov, Romania: "Trans-Generational Learning"
Christoph Brosius, Germany: "Humor Energized Learning"
Dr. Thieu Besselink, Netherlands: "Wisely Smart"
Dale J. Stephens, USA: "Education Hacker"

2. The International UNESCO Commission, under the chair of
the first Leonardo Award winner Prof. Dr. Jacques Delors,
called in its final report "Education for the 21st Century"
the ability of learning "our inner hidden treasure". The re-
port deals with cultural education, the relationship of edu-
cation to democracy, social work processes, the world of
work and the development of science and research.
Education is not a panacea, but it is one of the most im-
portant tools available for a more comprehensive and
harmonious nature of human development: It can help
overcome poverty, exclusion, ignorance, oppression and
war. A strong international cooperation in education is ne-
cessary!
Jacques Delors and his commission have highlighted this
in a four-pillar model of learning:
1. Learning to acquire knowledge: Requires the ability
to learn and requires concentration, power and memo-
ry. That is, learning how to learn in order to benefit from
the opportunities offered by lifelong learning.
2. Learning to do: Requires a combination of skills, indi-
vidually composed of qualifications in the strict sense
and acquired through technical and vocational training
as well as social skills, like teamwork, initiative and a
willingness to take risks.
3. Learning to live together and learning to live with
others: This is probably the most important form of
learning in relation to the discovery of others and their
opinions on possible joint life goals. It is essential to
develop an understanding of others as well as to de-
tect mutual global dependencies through joint projects
and strategies of conflict resolution! This is necessary
in order to understand others and to work with them to
achieve common goals.
4. Learning to be: Education should contribute as a fun-
damental principle of universal development of each
individual, e.g. the body and mind, intelligence, sensi-
tivity, perception, personal responsibility and spiritual
values. Everyone should be able to think independently
and critically and to make their own judgments, espe-
cially in view of the UNESCO’s fear that the world is
dehumanized by the technical changes.
The foundation for this must be a broad basic education,
which has to convey especially the ability to lifelong lear-
ning. All companies are required to work to ensure that
none of the talents that lie dormant like a hidden treasure
in every person is lost.
Lifelong learning is primarily the development of the crea-
tive potential of the whole personality and not only adapt
to a changing world of work.
Jacques Delors` message forced us in 2010 to estab-
lish a European Learning Award, the Leonardo European
Corporate Learning Award.
It requires, in addition to training initiatives and educatio-
nal innovation in Europe, life models with exemplary com-
mitment, with brave and clear visions.
Lifelong learning –
the key for the 21st
century
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With the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award
personalities are honored, who initiated and implemen-
ted lighthouse projects in this spirit, who have rende-
red special services and merits to education in Europe
and thus serve as an orientation mark, as role models, as
groundbreaking with great importance for others.
Thus, the exchange between thought leaders in business
on the one hand with society and politics on the other side
will be connected.
The overall task of a European Education Award is to high-
light interdisciplinary, holistic, culturally creative initiatives
to identify new ways and to show us how education can
become more efficient so that we can meet the challenges
of the future.
Conclusion:
Education and lifelong learning play in the strategic po-
sitioning of Europe in a globalized world the most central
roles that companies and the society have to face. It must
be committed in new ways! There will be new dimensions
of learning!
”It is a pioneering act to give your award to persons who
offer visions all across Europe and thus for the whole world
such as lifelong learning in every form, who create beacon
projects, who by imparting knowledge and education open
hearts and minds for educating the heart, for which there
can be no more dignified society in the global world.”
Dr. h. c. Hans-Dietrich Genscher,
Former Federal State Minister of Germany
(Excerpt from the honorific speech for J. Delors 2010)
Alexander Petsch Günther M. Szogs Prof. Dr. Winfried Sommer
On behalf of the Steering Committee and the international Advisory Board of the Leonardo Award

4. Teemu Arina, Finland, Founder
and CEO of Decole in the
category Young Leonardo –
Humanity in Digitization for
putting emphasis on outstanding
new developments that provoke a
fundamental challenge to predo-
minant mind-sets that enable us to bridge the gap of Big
Data and digitization of all ways of life and to truly adapt
this impact for the benefit of society. The outcomes are of
great importance for both Corporate Learning as well as
Community Education.
Claudia Suhov, Romania,
Founder and CEO of Kidster.ro
in the category Young
Leonardo – Trans-Generational
Learning for her meaningful
contributions to a better under-
standing how to learn together
across generations and fostering potential in learning and
knowing in all the challenges we are confronted with in
different phases of our life, e.g. in projects like My name
is young European to students in 2007 as well as for the
elder generation called A day for two generations.
Christoph Brosius, Germany,
Founder and CEO of Die Hob-
rechts in the category Young
Leonardo – Humor Energized
Learning for emphasizing work
and approaches inspired by the
idea and concept of creating
possibilities of joyful, playful discovery and learning, and
even behavioural change. By creating amazing examples
of changing perspectives in learning, be it in the corporate
world itself or in the communication with customers. His
concepts of learning integrate strategic thinking as well as
decision making and involve team members in games that
provide fascinating learning effects in combination with
sheer fun.
Dr. Thieu Besselink, The
Netherlands, Founder and
CEO of The Learning Lab
in the category Young
Leonardo – Wisely Smart for
his far reaching pioneering work
as an innovator, philosopher and
adviser, combining academic fundamental research with
practical implementation in a rather diverse context and
helping business people and underprivileged learners alike.
Dale J. Stephens, USA,
Founder of UnCollege in the
category Young Leonardo –
Education Hacker for putting
an emphasis on challenges of
predominant mind-sets that force
us to think twice about our habits
of learning and knowing and how to decompose and
recompose the modules of life that shape our knowledge.
The UnCollege concept is not a simplistic denial of a formal
education system but actually a call to everyone to take
full advantage of one’s potential and to co-create a fitting
environment for it.
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Young Leonardo Laureates 2015
The Leonardo Award honours for the first time young and independent individuals who, in the era of globalisation, devote their
zeal and lifeblood to the search for innovative solutions to the daunting challenges in the field of learning, be it in a company,
an organization or society. All awardees have initiated projects with model character, with a focus on the interplay between
knowledge and learning in companies and society, as well as the importance for the lifestyle of individuals and the success of
businesses:

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Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Bullinger
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Dr. Nick van Dam
McKinsey,
The e-Learning for Kids Foundation
Gary Copitch
People's Voice Media,
United Kingdom
Prof. Dorothy A. Leonard
William A. Abernathy Professor
of Business Administration,
Emerita, Harvard Faculty USA
Jimmy Wales
Founder of Wikipedia
Dr. Wilfried Stoll
Festo Holding GmbH
Prof. Dr. Jacques Delors
Former chair of UNESCO
Education Commisson
Dr. h.c. Kurt Stoll
Festo Holding GmbH
Caroline Jenner
Chief Executive Officer Europe
JA-YE-Europe
Calvin Grieder
CEO and President of Bühler Management AG
Switzerland
Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner
Founder of Hasso-Plattner-Institute
ans SAP SE
Prof. Sugata Mitra
MIT Media Lab USA
Newcastle University,
UK
Laureates 2010–2014

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Impressions of the
Leonardo Award Ceremony 2014

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