Sustainability & Engagement
Mon. October 10, 6:30PM
Bigger Than Us, the uprise of a hopeful youth
Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner and Flore Vasseur, renowned film producer of “Bigger than Us” and activist, in conversation with young changemakers.
Renowned film producer and activist Flore Vasseur and her team travelled the world meeting the young people at the forefront of change. The documentary film “Bigger than Us” is an inspiring encounter with those changemakers, revealing their courage, joy and commitment.
Together we will discover the moving and stunning screening at TheMerode followed by a conversation with M Gabriel and Flore Vasseur about the drive, passion and innovation they share with young people.
Together we will discover the moving and stunning screening at TheMerode followed by a conversation with M Gabriel and Flore Vasseur about the drive, passion and innovation they share with young people.
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An entrepreneur in New York at the age of 24, Flore Vasseur lived through the Internet bubble, September 11 and a capitalist system that was cracking on all sides.
Since then, she has written books, articles and television documentaries to understand the end of one world and the emergence of another. With her four frighteningly lucid novels, she attacks the grip of finance and the madness of a world based on technology.
In Moscow, she directed Meeting Snowden about the former NSA contractor. Her latest book, What Remains of Our Dreams, is an investigative novel about the little-known real-life story of Aaron Swartz, the child prodigy of code who wanted us to be free, persecuted by the Obama administration.
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Mariya Gabriel
Mariya Gabriel is the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, Youth and Sport. Under her leadership, the new Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, and the cultural strand of Creative Europe programmes (2021-2027) will be defined and implemented.
Her main priorities are excellence in research, innovation and education with a particular attention for young people and regions. “No one left behind” and “Think out of the box” are her mottos.
Between 2017 and 2019, Mariya Gabriel was European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society.
She was elected as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2009, 2014 and 2019. Mariya Gabriel is First Vice-President of the European People’s Party (EPP), and, since 2012, Vice-President of EPP Women. Commissioner Gabriel is a board member of the United Nations youth programme Generation Unlimited (GenU).
Mariya Gabriel is also known for her involvement in the fight for gender equality. Among others, she received the prestigious Italian prize “Golden Apple” for highest achievements for women. At the European Parliament, she was awarded twice “MEP of the year” – in 2016 for the Development category, and in 2013 for the Gender Equality category.
In November 2020, Commissioner Gabriel received the Annual Award of the Vienna Economic Forum “Partner of the Year 2020” for contribution to the economic development, rewarding Ms Gabriel’s vision of a European knowledge strategy comprising the European Education Area, the European Research Area and the new Digital Education Action Plan.
