Seasons Greetings

Seasons Greetings 2021

January 3, 2021

Dear all, Last January some friends said that over the years our REVEAL Seasons Greetings have turned increasingly grumpy. This was at least partly true – and it referred to last years’ political developments in Europe and worldwide. I hate to say that the negative and pessimistic anticipations in the posts from 2016 to 2020 (https://reveal-eu.org/category/seasons-greetings/ were in most cases justified. We probably cannot yet calculate how much damage Trump has caused worldwide in his 4-year ghost train ride and…

Seasons Greetings 2020

January 1, 2020

Tim Scholze

Badges, RE-DIRECT, REVEAL Project, Seasons Greetings, sustainability, Uncategorized

Dear all, Happy New Year to all of you! Since 2011 we have sent out Seasons Greetings to our friends and project and network partners. If you read the introductory flashbacks of the last three years you may get the impression that they become increasingly pessimistic as far as major societal, political and environmental developments are concerned. So, where do we go and what should we do in the next decade? Today I read an interesting interview with a German…

Seasons Greetings 2018-2019

January 1, 2019

Tim Scholze

Badges, RE-DIRECT, REBUS, REVEAL Project, Seasons Greetings

Happy New year to all of you! Looking back onto 2018 gives me some mixed feelings. I just had a look at last years’ season’s greetings and must admit that things haven’t developed in an extraordinarily positive direction – neither related to international nor European affairs. Right wing movements are getting stronger and European values being ignored and trampled underfoot, increasing conflicts and decreasing cooperation became a reality in a Europe which has to re-define its identity. Will we go…

Seasons Greetings 2017/2018

January 8, 2018

Tim Scholze

Seasons Greetings

Dear all, 2017 turned out as turbulent as expected. Politically, things have developed in rather weird directions: there is the Man with the Tin-Foil Hat in the White House who wants to make his country great again by reinventing the fossil coal economy. There is a British Government stumbling upon a completely unclear BREXIT pathway without having any clue where this should lead to. The Visegrad member states are afraid of refugees that they have never encountered before, and all…

Seasons Greetings 2016/2017

January 8, 2017

Tim Scholze

Seasons Greetings

Dear friends, Looking back we have to say that Europe has seen better years. The past year was marked by formerly unthinkable developments and threats. These have also partly overshadowed successful developments in our community. For this reason we feel that European collaboration is more important than ever. Despite the annoying and frightening global developments in 2016, our communities of internal and external partners have worked extremely well in projects like IMPACT, PROMOTE, EILEEN, EELLSS, THREE C, VALLEY and SASSI.…

Seasons Greetings 2015-2016

January 3, 2016

Tim Scholze

Seasons Greetings

Dear all, As every year in early January we would like to inform you about our last year’s activities and the latest developments. In 2015, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of our blinc network during the REVEAL conference with 80 guests from 15 countries that took place in Mechelen, Belgium in the wonderful premises of our partner Trendhuis. A good opportunity to look back at ten exciting years of joint development: Foundation of the cooperative in 2005 in Marseille with…

Seasons Greetings 2013-2014

January 2, 2014

Tim Scholze

Seasons Greetings

Dear all, Greetings from our REVEAL network! Again, 2013 was a quite exciting and successful year for us: On December 19th there was the formal lift-off for the „REVEAL“ branch within our blinc cooperative, adopted by its General Assembly. REVEAL will now be the official home of LEVEL5 and the umbrella organisation of our European network, first informally, however. In November we reached 200 registered users in our my-VITA e-portfolio that we not only offer to individuals as platform to…

Seasons Greetings 2011-2012

January 2, 2012

Tim Scholze

Seasons Greetings

Dear all, 2011 was a very successful year for the REVEAL community. LEVEL5 has been applied in new series of 20 informal learning projects and activities in the context of European projects and partnerships (VIP) and mobility projects (VILMA). In the framework of both projects we organised our first LEVEL5 training course in Alden Biesen and two conferences in Göttingen and Leuven. REVEAL members were invited as speakers in four large scale European events and generated much interest in the…