Where and how can we find reliable partner organizations? Berlin, Germany.

•    ”makes everyone feel useful!”
•    ”rehab centre of 1600 people close contributing community.”
•    ”time-bank munich pension system, there’s no inflation!”
•    ”help run your supermarket, co-producing”
•    ”you’re not just a recipient”
•    ”local currency that expires so it keeps circulating” – - “austrian good. stopped”
•    ”smaller NGOs with diversity globally!
•    ”everyone who enters gives something, Burning man/ Palomars”
•    ”instead of giving out money, make a community event (cleaning, building, cooking – stuff that contributes to the community) and then you create ownership.”
•    ”can monetary transfers be avoided?”
•    ”why where, there so many whites how helped…?”

How do you tailor aid for each region? LSE/ London, UK

•    Context:
•    l”anguages – impossible? Interpretation? Inguistic? cultural? carelessness? caring, expediency. Will there always be something you miss?”
•    ”Connect through language?”
•    ”Impossible to compare so…
•    Curriculum – culture and cultural problems difficult to engage”
•    ”experience the place”
•    ”how do we make people want it?”
•    ”I don’t know where to start?”
•    ”to make people think, otherwise, cannot.”

What is more important, cultural identity or prosperity? University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

•    Discussion
•    Should we force people or should we develop their idea
•    What is more important, cultural identity or prosperity
•    Indian or Chinese people come to Africa to invest,
•    Maybe English as second language
•    2 yaers of studying this structure
•    Structure transfer to an enterprise
•    Clanship as one entrepreneur
•    Specialization in a clanship
•    Africa is not africa
•    How to create New jobs

How can we connect different cultures to support ideas? Berlin, Germany.

•    ”the middle ground between from-the-top development aid and individual solutions?”
•    ”bendmasking of successful projects”
•    ”to care about things is tough when you are miserable” – fabian
•    ”what do communities / villages / etc. need, what do they want, how do we get to know what does really help them?”
•    ”how do we transfer our ideas of development to locals, how do we give them choices, what kind of help we can offer?”
•    ”feel free to fail ‘wrong practice can be the future, 1+1=11, vegetable kingdom.. all is safe, feel free to failmmm.”

How to make it relevant for the kids? Hub/ Zurich, Switzerland

•    sports
•    expand horizon – own culture or imported arts?
•    local role models grown out of community
•    Use art to get them excited and bring them together
•    Trusted figures for scared/ lost/ confused kids

Are the art programs for the people or another form of colonialisation? Hub/ Vienna, Austria

•    NGOs featured seem to be an opportunity for the heads of those NGOs to promote their own personalities

•    Transparency

•    Values

•    hand-out

•    Discussion forum for best practice in arts education

•    Texas in Africa

•    Fesnojiv – eye-level cultural exchange

•    Offering a choice

•    Vision of the NGOs

•    Approach of the NGOS

•    Arts vs Sports – there is more money in sports projects than arts projects.

•    Ego > things people want vs what self wants

•    Colonialisation has happened – French, English making it ‘their own’

•    UTE BOCK! www.fraubock.at

•    Excellence?

•    Project leaders must be dispensable – teacher training

Should religion play a role in aid? University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

•    Religion gives a more personal perspective.
•    Different religions divide extreme or moderate.
•    Christian values or common values.
•    Integrate into culture.
•    ”What problems occur when volunteers try to impose a foreign culture on the people?”
•    ”What values should be imposed on the foreign culture (e.g. children’s rights).”
•    ”Is there a generally acceptable set of values\morals\rules that should be valid globally?”
•    ”Religion is usually good for development as it gives people a motivation to help and it helps to manifest good values in the culture more sustainably, it creates longer lasting good attitudes and it gives a meaning to peoples’ life’s.”
•    ”There may be problems when organisations try to impose a certain religion in community of different religious background (e.g. trying to impose Christian culture in India -> creates parallel communities, divides the people)”