“Solution – Leadership for Sustainability” is an annual four day conference by AIESEC and emersense first hosted in 2006. Until now around 200 selected participants and well over 40 reputable guests and partners from across the world have participated in this unique learning platform to create a sustainable future.

This year’s “Solution” will take place from 14 to 17 May 2009 in Vienna and offers space for 80 selected delegates from Austria and abroad. Applications are now open.

As part of the AIESEC CareerDays09, we will be hosting an interactive workshop for students eager to take first steps as drivers of positive change. Upon brief insights into the concept of social entrepreneurship and its implementation around the globe, we will particularly create space and opportunity for the participants to identify and share their own ideas for social innovations and ventures.

This workshop is open for students of all universities. It will take place on 31 March 2009 at 2.30pm in Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. A more detailed description of the workshop and link to the applications can be found here.

“In the last five month a word became very popular around the world. From the taxi driver, to the analysts on TV, from the kids playing in the court yard to presidents of states, from the office to the meetings with friends, one word was on everyone’s lips. A word that is bringing fear and negative energy around the world. The word is ‘crisis’.

I have become allergic to this word and its pre-assumed negative connotation. One day I decided to go to its roots and found it in the Greek word ‘krisis’ – which means ‘decisive moment’. With this new interpretation I started to see the immense potential held in these times, the invitation to action, the opportunity for newness. It’s a word that no longer scares me or blocks my thoughts and actions but a word that fills me with energy.

With these thoughts in mind I invite you to see together the potential held in the times of ‘krisis’, the opportunities for our visions and dreams, the actions the world is calling us to take now… in these decisive moments.”

This is a perspective from emerging sense – a community that regularly brings together diverse value creators and enables the open exchange of thoughts, ideas and reflections. If you are interested in finding out more about this community please contact us at info@emersense.org.