2016
Dear friends of UNIAPAC, We are delighted to share the UNIAPAC Activity Report 2016 which includes details of the events and activities that UNIAPAC International was involved in. Throughout 2016, UNIAPAC was active in partnership initiatives in close cooperation with UNIAPAC National Associations and International organizations such as, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the International Labour Organization, UNESCO, Catholic universities, and other partners of the private sector and civil society. Our main goal is to continue to provide greater support for our National Associations, to ensure the visibility of UNIAPAC through the promotion of a world economy that respects a person’s dignity and the Common Good and to be a source of change in society. Many reflections were opened in our Conference Rome in November. It is up to us to take action in 2017 !
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UNIAPAC INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY REPORT
Rodrigo Whitelaw, Uniapac International
JANUARY - MARCH 2016
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Public presentation of the UNIAPAC Foundation 5 Years Activity Report : document to be used for of the fundraising campaign. This document is available in English, French and Spanish The UNIAPAC Foundation was founded in 2010. It aims to be a lever for funding, a vector of development, and a sounding board for the Uniapac International network as it constructs an economy at the service of human beings. The Mission of the Foundation is to work In favour of Uniapac National Associations from several angles. The first is intellectual : as a laboratory of innovative Ideas, generating concrete responses to contemporary economic challenges. The second is strategic : funding the development of the Uniapac International network and speaking out on its behalf among international organisations and partner foundations. The third is pragmatic : fostering training and transformation for business leaders who wish to help construct a fairer and more responsible society. The launching of the document took place in the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme in Paris on 20 February 2016 with the participation of 20 high level selected business leaders with the objective to have their support for the projects of Uniapac International. To see the Activity Report
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Uniapac Think Tank meeting, March 2016, Paris on “Risks at the source of Life” Uniapac invited the participants to reflect on this issue, to eventually rehabilitate the notion of risk as the basis of life within a society which refuses it and seeks, with its now almost unlimited technical means, to eliminate it. The work of the Think Tank will be nourished by the experiences of entrepreneurs mostly issued from UNIAPAC Associations and put into perspective with different high level contributors. The Think Tank meeting was divided into the following 3 panels : PANEL I : “High drama in the anthropology of risk” by Dr Jonathan Skinner Reader in Social Anthropology Department of Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, UK. PANEL II : “Systemic versus interpersonal risk : the alternative
of Catholic Social Thought and the ‘civil economy’ tradition”, by Dr Adrian Pabst, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Kent, UK, followed by an open discussion moderated by Professor Michael Naughton, director of the Center for Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas. The conclusions and final remarks presented by Brian Griffiths, Chairman of the Trustees of “the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics” (CEME), UK. PANEL III : “The notion of risk from a theological perspective” introduced by Mgr. Osvaldo Neves de Almeida, section for relations with States, Secretariat of State of the Holy See and presented by Father Baudoin Roger, co-director of the Departement Men and Societies of the Collège des Bernardins, France. The Open discussion moderated by Stefano Zamagni, Professor of Economy, Bologna University and the synthesis and conclusions presented by José Maria Simone, President Uniapac International. To see the Booklet of the 2017 Uniapac Think Tank Meeting
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UNESCO CCIC Uniapac Activities n Water Access for all in Africa
NGO’s Project to train local Hydrologists. The project launched in 2016 is currently in progress with 15 trainees identified for Madagascar, Ivory-Coast and Burkina-Faso to be trained in the University center 2IE in Ouagadougou (BF). The financing is looked for through the UNESCO participation program 2016-2017. n Netexplo Forum 2016 on February in Paris
Netexplo Forum 2016 was an opportunity to discover new and emerging trends in the use of digital technology, as well as to meet the creators of these innovations. Three themes stand out. The first revolves around the body and biology, the second relates to robotics and artificial intelligence, and the third concerns interpersonal and economic exchanges. These three themes cover 70 % of the innovations in the Netexplo 100 this year. More information on Netexplo : https ://www.netexplo.org/fr/publication/netexplotrend-report-2016 UNIAPAC International Activity Report 2016
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