Absolventa backs The Festival idea
By Florian Mueck • Feb 10th, 2009 • Category: The Festival Embassy, Top News
Graduates and young professionals, that is one of the key target groups of The Festival. Most of them think international and have a pro-European mindset; a great source of potential The Festival supporters.
Since April 2008 Absolventa, a German “Jobbörse”, has won more than 90,000 job seekers in both categories. And they launched an exciting nonprofit initiative; the first democratic scholarship. Among themselves Absolventa members vote for the most creative application. The prize, a 25,000 € scholarship, helps the winner study abroad, somewhere in Europe.
Co-founder and Managing Director Pascal Tilgner explains that,
“Absolventa, for the time being, is a 100% Germany-based venture. We don’t know today what will happen by 2012, but it’s obvious that the world is changing rapidly. Locally oriented job seekers from Germany today might be focusing on jobs in Poland or France tomorrow. Our ‘democratic scholarship’ is a first internationally oriented step. Europe is the future, obviously. In that sense we consider The Festival an extraordinary initiative. It’s visionary and brave. We wish you guys all the best and good luck!”
Florian Mueck is European, initiator and co-founder of The Festival: "In more than three years, so far, we have heard many 'buts', but no 'no'."
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