Conference highlights and Rationale

Starting from an analysis of the parlous state in the global economy, the Conference aims at:

Introducing New Economic Thinking & New Practice: Presenting a comprehensive overview of emerging alternative economic thinking and practice based on sustainable approaches to economics, aligned with an integral “four worlds and center model”, articulated in terms of a relevant Moral Economic Core (Center), Self-sufficient Economy (South), Developmental Economy (East), Social Economy (North), and Living Economy (West), and associated, respectively, with four transformational economic paths.

Building on and Co-Creating Real Life Cases, locally and globally: Based on growing awareness of the wealth of impulses for economic renewal in Slovenia, in relation to all four economic paths, the conference introduces distinctive real-life cases representing the emergent integral economy – locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.  We directly engage with feasible, ready-made Slovenian projects representative of the above, building on their unique embeddedness in the Slovenian culture at the European crossroads.

Reviewing and upgrading the vision of the Integral Green Slovenian Economy (IGSE): The conference will consider viable measures to lead Slovenia out of the present serious economic, financial and political crisis, as well as its crisis of values, and will help in shaping a long-term strategy for sustainable development, with the objective, ultimately, to establish Slovenia as a pilot country of an integral green economy within Europe and the World.

Connecting the Integral Green Economy in Slovenia with present EU Development Policies: Set in the context of the EU 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, and exploring, among others, the emerging concepts of green economy, social entrepreneurship and social responsibility, and, subsequently, sketching an evolving integral strategy for Europe as a whole. 

 

Letter to the Prime Minister mag. Alenka Bratušek/Dopis predsednici Vlade RS (page 1/stran 1, page 2/stran 2)

Letter to the President of the National Assembly Mr. Janko Veber/Dopis predsedniku Državnega zbora RS (page 1/stran 1, page 2/stran 2)