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IMPULSA - Fòrum Fundació Príncep de Girona
IMPULSA - Fòrum Fundació Príncep de Girona

''All together towards IMPULSA. We are all represented here today.''



22/06/2011

-Authorities

-Patrons of the Prince of Girona Foundation and members of the Advisory Council

-Speakers and participants

Good morning to you all and welcome to the IMPULSA Forum. Allow me to also welcome you to the city of Girona, which is hosting us with such enthusiasm, for the second consecutive year. Thank you, Madam Mayor and Authorities, for your cooperation and hospitality.

As many of you will recall, the Prince of Girona Foundation was created two years ago in this same place, and today it has called us together for the second holding of the Forum, which I am now honored to open.

The Organizing Committee, which is tirelessly directed by Vice-President Josep Lagares; the Foundation team headed by President Toni Esteve, and many other people have made it possible for IMPULSA to bring us together again: on behalf of all, and together with the Princess, allow me to express them our most sincere gratitude.

This year’s Forum features a program of the highest level. Speakers from around the world have placed their trust in the power of IMPULSA and have generously consented to accompany us today: our thanks to them all, who have come from far and near.

I would also like to extend a very special welcome to all the young people who have come from all over Spain to be here with us today. These young people are the main focus of our Foundation’s activity and the reason for its existence. Thank you for joining us today and thank you in advance for your active participation.

When we concluded the first edition of the Forum last year, we decided to ask a large number of young people what ideas and issues they wanted us to discuss and deal with in the second edition. Their response can be summed up with these words: building enthusiasm, educating and becoming an entrepreneur. Three key elements for transforming reality.

Enthusiasm, because it is an emotion that motivates our behaviour and drives our objectives in life; education, as the roadmap plotting our academic and professional education; an entrepreneurial spirit, the tool that turns our ideas and dreams into reality. As you have seen in the programme, these are the principles behind this year’s IMPULSA Forum. And today we are very fortunate to be able to listen to some people who have become global references, to experts on these matters and, of course, to young people, who will all be talking to us about these key elements.

During the Forum, in addition to enriching ourselves with these opinions and learning from the testimonies we are about to hear, we also hope to demonstrate that combining young people’s boldness with the experience of the not-so-young can become a powerful tool for transformation. I therefore encourage you to speak to each other and share your opinions.

To our young participants, I would recommend taking full advantage of the opportunity provided by the presence here today of entrepreneurs, professionals and facilitators in general: introduce yourselves, ask questions and absorb everything that they can offer you, which is a considerable amount. To those of us who are not so young, we should hear and value the opinions, the concerns and the aspirations of our young people. We must give them our backing because they are the future. And we should absorb their energy in order to build that future together.

I am convinced that Girona, step by step and year by year, will become a reference point for the encouragement of young people's entrepreneurial spirit as an attitude towards life and a disposition to be capable of writing our own future at all times, doing it with energy, optimism and passion, without fear of failure, and with values.

Entrepreneurship means, undoubtedly, to contribute added value to our everyday life in every sphere: in companies, culture and sports, and in the social, academic and scientific fields. There is room for everyone in IMPULSA, and everyone is represented here today.

Once again, thanks to all, and now let's go on to the Forum's program.

I give you IMPULSA 2011!

 

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