This Brussels Debate will take a close look at the complex relation between cultural diversity, creativity and innovation: is cultural diversity an essential element of creativity or a nice-to-have ingredient?

Cultural diversity enlarges and values the different ways of seeing and doing things in other cultures. This openness gives the capacity to select and absorb elements of other cultures, helping to produce new ways of thinking, seeing, imagining and creating. How can this link be better fostered in today's European mosaic of cultures, traditions, languages and beliefs?

Maroš Šefčovič, European Commissioner for Education, training, culture and youth, will open the Debate with a keynote speech, followed by a panel debate between the following speakers:

• Phil Wood, author of "Intercultural City, planning the diversity advantage"
• Bola Olabisi, Managing Director, Global Women Inventors & Innovators Network (GWIIN)
• Sabine Frank, Secretary General of the Platform for Intercultural Europe
• Daniel de Torres, Commissioner for Integration and Intercultural Dialogue in Barcelona

 

To register, please contact info@epc.eu.

Background note

Download the Report of the sixth Brussels Debate