A sustainable future was the focus of the EuroMinds summit. Celebrities like Natalia Wörner and Esther Schweins could also be seen there.
Once again, experts from business, politics and science have come together for the EuroMinds Economic Summit in Hamburg to discuss climate change, sustainability, digitization and the energy transition.
For two days, inspiration, critical questions and important discussions were on the agenda at the event by initiator and organizer Sören Bauer, which is supported by partners such as FOCUS, FOCUS MONEY and the APEX Group. “We have challenging times and we are very grateful and happy that we have partners like FOCUS and the APEX Group who support us tremendously,” said Sören Bauer during the welcome on the second day in the Helmut Schmidt Auditorium of the Bucerius Law School.
The aim of the event is primarily to bundle “great ideas” that counteract climate change and its consequences, explains Gunnar Krüger, CBDO of the APEX Group, to the news agency spot on news on Friday in Hamburg. “In general, regardless of this event, it is very important that we remember that a generation is always measured by what we leave behind. If we leave an industry or world to our next generation that is still struggling with emissions, then we did something wrong, “continues Krüger.
Smart, smarter, Hamburg
It is not without reason that the EuroMinds summit is taking place in Hamburg. According to the industry association Bitkom, the Free and Hanseatic City is considered the smartest city in Germany when it comes to digitization and can also shine in the area of mobility with digitally controlled S-Bahn trains and autonomous buses. Mayor Dr. Peter Tschentscher (55, SPD) is the patron of the event, which has now taken place for the second time this year.
Also committed celebrities such as “RTL Saturday Night” icon Esther Schweins (51), education activist and entrepreneur Stephanie zu Guttenberg (44) and actress Natalia Wörner (53) did not miss the program. On Friday the three women clearly enjoyed being at a real event again. “That makes you grateful, you can talk to people again,” enthuses zu Guttenberg in an interview with spot on news.
Zu Guttenberg: “It was a big challenge for us too”
“The lockdown and being locked up a lot made you a little more humble and grateful, and it became clear to you how important it is to meet people and get together socially,” added zu Guttenberg. At the star-studded meeting, the corona crisis was of course also discussed and what lessons the celebrities could learn from the pandemic and lockdown.
“It was also a big challenge for us as a company. We’re in the digital area, that’s a little easier in quotation marks. But a lot of what we do digitally, we do in places. That was of course extremely difficult, we had to Rethink and restructure, “zu Guttenberg recalls. It is important for them in the future to “keep flexibility in mind”.
Natalia Wörner could not work during Corona
Natalia Wörner was also professionally restricted due to the isolation time, she revealed. “At first I had a complete emergency stop and didn’t shoot for six months,” explains the actress, “but I don’t want to use myself as a benchmark in my industry. I have cushions and can afford to support myself and my family , even if I haven’t been working for six months. That doesn’t apply to everyone. ” She has experienced “very, very bitter moments” in exchanges with colleagues who often simply had to give up their jobs and try to stay afloat: “That is not nice.”
She looked back on the lockdown with “mixed feelings”: “Most mistakes were made in schools, big mistakes were made in old people’s homes and what it does and has done to children’s souls … I know so many children and young people who really suffer from it and I believe that the consequences of all this have not yet been exhausted, “explains the partner of Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (54, SPD).
The lockdown and its positive sides
The three women were also able to gain something positive from the isolation time. Stephanie zu Guttenberg was able to expand her cooking skills: “I intensified my cooking. I had fun before, but we have learned a lot more now.” Natalia Wörner accepted the lockdown as a “personal challenge and tried to make the best of it”. Actress Esther Schweins realized “that it is gratifying that the way we live the ceiling cannot fall on our heads and that I can do very well and very well, even if not economically but personally, without work” she reveals spot on news.
Katharina Fegebank (44, Bündnis90 / Die Grünen), second mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is now placing her hope above all in the vaccination strategy, which has made great progress through the pandemic: “It is now simply great that more is possible again and that we have more freedom again thanks to the scientific excellence of the vaccine breakthrough, i.e. vaccine development. ” Science has really shown that the fundamentals and the findings make a significant contribution to the development of society.
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