This series of conversations aims to put together Global Shapers and
experts with the aim of identifying various solutions and scenarios
for different types of challenges in: urban planning, business ethics,
public administration reform, sports and society, culture or
entrepreneurship.
The Shaping Conversations are also an opportunity for Hub Members to
interact in an informal space with experts and practitioners from
Romania and abroad. Some of the conversations we have hosted so far
are:
On 15th of February 2015 we organized a debate within the Shaping
Conversations series, focusing on Bucharest and the urban framework we
call “home”, about the many characteristics that make our city
eclectic and the way we can shape the future of the city.
Initial commentators included Anamaria Vrabie, Global Shaper, urban
planner-economist and architect Maria Duda, discussions including
various Shapers and guest ranging from social entrepreneurs, public
policy experts, economists, sportsmen, journalists and civic
activists.
From practical topics like who makes and decides on the plans for the
future of Bucharest to nostalgia on how the city experience was in the
early 90s and to philosophical questions like where/who draws the line
between citizens’ needs and desires and urban/national needs, the
debate laid the ground for future conversations. We now know, for
example that University Square was at the beginning of twentieth
century the Botanic Garden, that the University building was cut in
half by bombardments and the remained space used as an interior
garden, that there is a strategic concept for Bucharest 2035 or that
more and more civic initiatives are becoming successful in impacting
local urban policies.
We organized on 12th of September 2015 a conversation on the
importance of having more young people in local and central public
administration. Youth disengagement with politics, policy and
administration is an increasing and dangerous trend as political
scandals, low wages and positions and an overall negative perception
are a constant reality.
The debate took place within the National Youth Council of Romania
which has as purpose to structure and promote the vision of young
people on a series of subject areas and to propose amendments to
update the legislative framework youth in Romania.
Moderator:
Ciprian Stanescu, Curator, Global Shapers Bucharest
Hub
Vorbitori:
Aniela Aron, Public Manager, Ministry of Labor
Claudia Benchescu, President, CSL, Vice President TNL
Iulia Drajneanu, Advisor, Presidential Administration
Corina Murafa, Public Policy Consultant
Codru Vrabie, Anti corruption expert, Funky Citizens
In the age of communities, networks are vital infrastructures. As we
are beginning to understand their potential, learning to build and
harness connectivity is a powerful skill. Networks are as powerful as
the change they enable.
What happens when five global and local networks host an open
conversation about using networks for change? The Open Sourcing Change
in Collaborative Networks event was born out of informal conversations
among friends with many organizational hats about the value of the
different networks they work through, crowd-sourcing the question of
how networks deliver change seemed only natural.
This is why the Global Shapers Bucharest Hub opened up the
conversation to the public and asked co-organizers EdgeRyders, Aspen
Fellows Network and guests EduCab and Bucharest2021 to join a table at
generous host BCR and get talking about what makes networked
collaboration work. And what doesn’t.
