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On-site Sustainability Seminar Southern Germany August 03rd-11th/12th, 2014 - Public version - Implementation of the project “greenXchange 2014 – German-Israeli Program on Sustainability for Young Professionals“ was made possible by a grant from the Stiftung Deutsch-Israelisches קרן פורום העתיד גרמניה-ישראל | Zukunftsforum Welcome address - greenXchange On-site Sustainability Seminar Welcome address by Yakov Hadas- Handelsman, Israeli Ambassador Dear participants of the greenXchange Sustainability Seminar 2014, The green topics you are discussing during your seminar are of great importance for both of our countries and beyond. Thinking about the future we must work on our vision of green innovation, a sustainable lifestyle, and green energy. To put it in simple words: Whoever wants to think about the future must think green. I believe that the people in our two countries can bring forward a green relationship by getting to know each other better and by learning more about each other's countries. When Israelis and Germans meet each other in exchange programs and work together in projects like yours this contributes to a better mutual understanding. Your program is a very good example of how green issues bring together Israelis and Germans in a lively and active forum. greenXchange is becoming a flagship of environmental exchange. When in May 2014 the German and Israeli Environmental Ministers met in Berlin, they discussed your program, too. As member of the board of trustees of the German-Israeli Future Forum I am especially happy that you also receive support from this side. Your seminar these days and your planned activities next year are going to mark fifty years of diplomatic relations between Israel and Germany. This shows that greenXchange is about creating the future The Embassy of the State of Israel in Berlin is worldwide the together - I am happy that with this program the Israeli second largest Israeli Embassy in Germany can contribute to promote young diplomatic representation due green leadership in both of our countries. to the historic, well established political and intensive economic relationship between Israel and For your current seminar and future endeavors I wish Germany. you many new insights and all the best. The Embassy administers and develops bilateral relations in all aspects of political, social, and Yours - Yakov Hadas-Handelsman - economic life. Ambassador of the State of Israel in Germany | Page 2 Welcome address - greenXchange On-site Sustainability Seminar Welcome address by Dr. Schaul Chorev and Judith Perl-Strasser Dear participants from Germany and Israel, We at KKL-JNF welcome you as participants of the fourth German-Israeli greenXchange sustainability seminar, this year through Southern Germany. "The best way to predict the future is to create it" – Peter Drucker We believe that this is what the KKL-JNF Young Leadership Program – is about: Highly educated, skilled, motivated young professionals from Israel and Germany who do not just talk about what needs to be done to make the world a better place, but who actually do something about it, promote ideas and help create hands-on projects with primary focus on ecology and the environment. greenXchange has already become the flagship of KKL-JNF’s young leadership programs and rest assured that we will take this even further. I believe that for an impressive group of people like this united on a platform facilitated by an organization like KKL- JNF, only the sky will be the limit! We aim at making greenXchange a tangible platform, in which senior participants create new ideas and activities. Unfortunately I, Judith, will for now be leaving the program to face new assignments within KKL-JNF. Take with you many new insights from the 2014 seminar! Both of us wish you a nice, joyful and educative seminar and accompany KKL-JNF and greenXchange in the thinking, planning and implementing process to improve the world environment. Yours - Dr. Schaul Chorev - Main Emissary of KKL-JNF in Germany - Judith Perl-Strasser - European Department KKL-JNF in Israel | Page 3 Munich tour stop - greenXchange On-site Sustainability Seminar Munich is the start and final meeting point of the sustainability tour 2014 Tour stops: Munich, Konstanz, Freiburg, and Stuttgart 1 Munich, 03.-04., 09.-11./12.08.2014 Munich is the capital and largest city of the Free State of Bavaria. With about 1.4 million inhabitants it makes the third largest city in Germany (4,500 inhabitants per km2), after Berlin and Hamburg. Next to Hamburg and Frankfurt it is the German city with the highest costs of living. Referring to the coat of arms, the name is derived from the monks of the Benedictine order, who ran a monastery at the place that was later to become the Old Town. Munich hosts the largest and probably most prominent folk festival in the world- the Oktoberfest. Not only there you can taste white sausage (Weißwurst) with sweet mustard and a Pretzel (Brezel), which is one of the greatest must-taste specialties of Munich. Accompany it with a Munich brewed wheat beer (Weissbier), the most popular Munich beer today, at one of the city’s breweries. More information: http://www.muenchen.de/int/en Munich New Town Hall greenXchange in Munich In Munich greenXchange is hosted by the European Janusz Korczak Academy and the Jewish Community. greenXchangers are going to meet the German-Israeli Future Forum, KKL-JNF’s Munich Office, the Plant for the Planet Foundation, the Israeli Consul Dr. Dan Shaham Ben-Hayun, the former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Dr. h.c. Charlotte Knobloch, and a representative of the Heussen Law Firm. Furthermore, greenXchangers participate in a Green City Tour, have a capacity building workshop, and get to know the Hermannsdorfer Landwerkstätten. Munich is the start and final meeting point for the greenXchange seminar this year. Next to internal greenXchange discussions about the advancement of the initiative, meetings in Munich tackle the work of Israeli and Jewish representatives in Southern Germany, show how a grass-root initiative (Plant for the Planet) can become very successful, how the legal framework for renewable energies in Germany looks like, and how sustainably conscious city dwelling is possible. Check the greenXchange tour map for details on sites, locations etc.: http://goo.gl/yRt7QI | Page 4 Munich tour stop - greenXchange On-site Sustainability Seminar A&O Hotel München Hackerbrücke Munich, Reservation # rd Arnulfstraße 102, Sunday, August 3 80636 München Accommodation Transport: Public transportation Technical equipment EJKA e.V.: Projector/ screen, flipchart Time Location Agenda Until A&O Hotel München Check-in 13:30 Hackerbrücke Arnulfstraße 102 80636 München 14:00- European Janusz Welcome 15:15 Korczak Academy > Meet and greet/ Welcome with (EJKA e.V.) coffee and self-made cake Sonnenstraße 8 > Introduction of old and new participants 80331 Munich 15:15- EJKA e.V. German-Israeli Future Forum 15:45 Birgit Luig, Project Manager German-Israeli Future- Forum (DIZF) > Presentation of DIZF > Outline of expectations 15:45- EJKA e.V. KKL-JNF Munich Office 16:00 Get to know KKL-JNF in Germany 16:00- EJKA e.V. Expectations of participants 16:45 > On-site seminar overview > Participant’s expectations of the on-site seminar > Presentation of the main findings of the individually prepared inputs > Nomination of two participants per day to document each day of the on-site seminar 17:00- Start at Fischbrunnen Green City Tour 19:00 Marienplatz Guided city tour through Munich critically focusing on 80331 München consumption: textile industry, mobile phones, banks 19:30- At restaurant Two participants recall the day 19:45 > Summary > Participants’ impression/ take-aways 19:45- Klinglwirt Dinner at sustainable restaurant 21:30 Balanstraße 16 81669 München Check the greenXchange tour map for details on sites, locations etc.: http://goo.gl/yRt7QI | Page 5 Munich tour stop - greenXchange On-site Sustainability Seminar das mietwerk – hostel landau Munich, Reservation # th Holdereggenstraße 11, Monday, August 4 88131 Lindau Accommodation Transport: Public transportation; transfer to Lindau by autobus Technical equipment IKG-M: Projector/ screen, flipchart (paper provided by KKL-JNF) Time Location Agenda 09:00- Jewish Community Welcome to the Jewish Community 09:15 Munich and Upper by Alon Kol Bavaria Sankt-Jakobs-Platz 18 80331 Munich Media room 09:15- Jewish Community Capacity building workshop 12:30 Thomas Marschall Media room Insights into the issue of fundraising, with a special focus on sponsoring and corporate partners- which steps to go to contract a financing partner for activities and projects 12:45- Restaurant Einstein Lunch 14:00 Sankt-Jakobs-Platz 18 80331 Munich 14:30- Jewish Community Plant for the Planet Foundation 16:00 Organization founded by 9-year-old Felix Finkbeiner in Media room 2007 Input for greenXchange project: Forest-Community Interface 17:00- Holdereggenstr. 11 Transport from Munich by autobus 19:30 88131 Lindau ~180 km/ 2:00 hrs 19:30- At restaurant Two participants recall the day 19:45 > Summary > Participants’ impression/ take-aways 19:30- Valentin Dinner 19:45 In der Grub 28a 88131 Lindau Check the greenXchange tour map for details on sites, locations etc.: http://goo.gl/yRt7QI | Page 6 Munich tour stop - greenXchange On-site Sustainability Seminar Seminar stops in Munich, August 3rd-4th, 2014 European Janusz Korc- EJKA e.V. offers greenXchange its facilities for conducting its zak Academy (EJKA e.V.) workshops and discussions. The academy is an educational institution following the legacy of Janusz Korczak, a Polish doctor, writer of children’s books, and famous pedagogic. The academy was founded in 2009 to strengthen the Jewish community, “to open it to the world and dispel prejudices and preconceptions”. The approach of tiqqun olam/ repairing the world through education and training is translated into the academy’s program offering family workshops, seminars and pilot projects with scientific and humanitarian goals.