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Munich/New York. Every day, on the forefront of addressing intercultural challenges via social improvements, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group, with the assist of Accenture, are happy to announce the 2024 cycle of the Intercultural Innovation Hub.
Through the Intercultural Innovation Hub (IIH), we proceed to attach individuals and cultures, empower grassroots organizations, in addition to elevate and scale up modern approaches that contribute to inclusive societies.
To this finish, we invite grassroots organizations that promote intercultural dialogue and understanding in addition to social inclusion to use. Selected organizations will profit from a complete assist programme designed to develop the influence of their initiatives.
The Intercultural Innovation Hub will choose as much as 10 initiatives centered on addressing xenophobia and hate speech, stopping violent extremism; selling gender equality; utilizing sport, artwork and tradition as instruments to drive social change and foster social inclusion; and constructing inclusive and cohesive societies.
Selected recipients will obtain:
Financial assist for sustainable development: Each finalist will obtain as much as USD 20,000 to scale up the sustainability of their venture and speed up the influence of their work.
Year-long capacity-building programme: Selected recipients additionally will profit from a year-long sequence of capacity-building workshops, centered assist, and customised mentoring offered by UNAOC and the BMW Group, with the assist of Accenture.
Access and membership to a world management platform: Recipients could have a possibility to increase their spheres of affect, collaborate with different changemakers, and participate in regional and worldwide occasions by changing into a part of a world management community.
To apply, please learn the eligibility criteria and full your utility no later than 5 p.m. (EDT) on 25 March 2024 at
http://www.interculturalinnovation.org/application-process
If you could have any questions, please contact:
BMW Group Corporate Communications
Milena Pighi
Corporate and Governmental Affairs
Spokesperson Corporate Citizenship
Email: milena.pa.pighi@bmw.de
Telephone: +49-89-382-66563
Media web site: www.press.bmwgroup.com
Email: presse@bmwgroup.com
United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC)
Alessandro Girola
Chief, Programming and Projects Unit
Email: alessandrog@unops.org
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PLANO, Texas (Jan. 30, 2024) – Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) pronounces the awardees of grants by its Way Forward Fund, a multi-year initiative geared toward strengthening entry to care and damage restoration help for people and their households, with an preliminary deal with kids with traumatic mind accidents (TBI). The grant awards will go to:
“The organizations represented in this year’s grantees, illustrates the variety of ways our communities can care for the health of children,” mentioned Tellis Bethel, group vp of social innovation, Toyota. “The Way Forward Fund helps the company realize its vision of creating mobility for all by implementing the Toyota Way values of continuous improvement and respect for people.”
As a part of its dedication to sustainable packages with long-term affect, by the Way Forward Fund, Toyota is investing in and partnering with the TBI care group, to deal with gaps in TBI funding for kids, help well being fairness and strengthen the restoration journey for youths, households and caregivers.
The organizations chosen for funding have specialties in pediatric care, and their packages align with the three key focus areas of the Fund this yr:
The recipients will use the grants to advance pediatric TBI care of their areas of specialties.
“Through a community-based approach to care, the Way Forward Fund leverages Toyota’s partnerships, know-how, support and connections to drive new ideas,” mentioned Douglas Moore, government director, Way Forward Fund.
This is the second spherical of grants awarded by the Way Forward Fund. More than $8 million in grants was made out there to the chosen establishments, with an emphasis on elevating high quality of healthcare in communities with the best want.
According to National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), TBI is a significant pediatric well being situation that’s usually under-recognized, and pressing and long-term care are sometimes under-resourced.
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM) has been part of the cultural cloth in North America for greater than 65 years, and is dedicated to advancing sustainable, next-generation mobility by our Toyota and Lexus manufacturers, plus our greater than 1,800 dealerships.
Toyota straight employs greater than 63,000 folks in North America who’ve contributed to the design, engineering, and meeting of practically 45 million vehicles and vehicles at our 13 manufacturing vegetation. By 2025, Toyota’s 14th plant in North Carolina will start to fabricate automotive batteries for electrified autos. With extra electrified autos on the street than another automaker, Toyota at the moment gives 26 electrified choices.
For extra details about Toyota, go to www.ToyotaNewsroom.com.
Currently, Mercedes’ EVs (just like the EQS SUV and EQE Sedan) help 400V, not 800V. Indeed, at CES in earlier years, executives on the automaker have insisted that the absence of that higher-power structure hasn’t been a downside for its electrical fashions. This yr, although — and with the primary MMA-based automobiles quick approaching — Schäfer is speaking a barely completely different story.
“The shift to 800V cars and, associated with that, chargers that offer 300, 350, or even 500 kW, this will happen immediately,” Schäfer predicts. “Tesla is moving there: In the Cybertruck they’re moving in the world of 800V. Hyundai is moving there … If you look in the world, things are clearly moving there.”
With very quick DC charging help on each the automobile facet and the infrastructure facet, it may also observe that issues about EV vary would even be squashed. That’s actually the technique many within the trade hope will pan out, on condition that the battery pack is the only most costly component of an electrical automobile. Unfortunately, Schäfer is not satisfied, at the very least not for the second.
Most iPhone fashions launched up to now few years assist Portrait mode and results, together with second and third-generation iPhone SE fashions, and most fashions are numbered 11 and better. Consult Apple’s website for a full record of iPhone fashions that assist Portrait mode. If your telephone helps this mode, the easiest way to entry its options is to pick out portrait mode earlier than taking a photograph by sliding the mode selector till “Portrait” is highlighted in yellow.
If you could have any of the newly launched iPhone 15 fashions, you possibly can apply the bokeh impact to pictures taken in common Photo mode, supplied they’ve an individual, canine, or cat as a topic. Simply open the picture within the Photos app, click on “Edit,” and choose “Portrait.” You ought to then have the choice to blur the background following the directions above.
MINI Countryman
MINI Cooper S Countryman ALL4 – further photographs obtainable.
MINI Cooper S Countryman ALL4 (gas consumption mixed: 7.6-7.1 l/100km; CO₂ emissions mixed: 172-161 g/km in accordance with WLTP)
Munich/Leipzig. The new BMW Photo Award Leipzig will assist artists each two years who both have a biographical connection to Leipzig and the area or who consciously interact with town and its environment of their creative work. The prerequisite is figure within the medium of pictures or associated visible media. The three winners are chosen by a altering, worldwide jury consisting of artists, curators, artwork academy professors and different consultants. Each jury member proposes three positions. The prize is endowed with €5,000 per artist and is linked to a joint exhibition together with a list on the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (MdbK). The BMW Niederlassung Leipzig and the BMW Group have recurrently supported the MdbK with purchases and exhibitions since 2005.
BMW and the MdbK pursue a number of goals with the awarding of the prize. Firstly, it’s a few basic strengthening of Leipzig as a centre for pictures and the photographers working there. Particularly younger positions and people which, within the jury’s view, haven’t but been adequately recognised in public, ought to be highlighted. In addition, the award is an expression of the excessive worth positioned on pictures on the MdbK and the museum’s collaboration with BMW on this subject, which has been ongoing for over 20 years. Finally, the exhibition of the prize-winning works is meant to make a creative contribution to social self-assurance concerning the historical past and current of town and potential views for its future.
The award ceremony will happen on 6 June 2024 as a part of the opening of the exhibition (7. June – 15. September 2024).
The jury
The jury for the primary BMW Photo Award Leipzig met on the MdbK in early December. Its members consisted of Ines Schaber (Professor of Photography and Media, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig), Inka Schube (Curator of Photography, Sprengel Museum Hannover), Andrzej Steinbach (artist, Berlin), Christoph Wiesner (Director of Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles) and Philipp Freytag (Curator of Photography and Media Art on the MdbK). The three prize winners have been chosen by the jury with a unanimous vote.
Award winner 2024
Margit Emmrich: Born in Chemnitz in 1949, grew up in Leipzig | 1969-1974 studied pictures on the HGB underneath Heinz Föppel and Joachim Jansong | 1976-1978 trainee on the HGB | 1974-1979 labored as a freelancer in Leipzig and Berlin | 1979-1980 political imprisonment | 1981-1987 employed in Freiburg/Breisgau | 1987-1994 household work in Erlangen | 1994 returned to Leipzig and has labored there as a freelancer ever since.
“Margit Emmrich’s work has a considerable significance for the visual memory of the city of Leipzig as well as East Germany and united Germany as a whole. This applies to the social conditions and developmental psychological circumstances she has documented as well as to her photographic approach. Her humanistic social documentary photography combines high artistic standards with concrete sociological questions. This makes her exemplary for the tradition of Leipzig photography in the last third of the 20th century.” (Philipp Freytag, curator for pictures and media artwork on the MdbK)
Susanne Keichel: Born 1981 in Dresden | 2000-2003 coaching as a photographer with Stefan Thurmann in Hamburg | 2003-2005 freelance picture assistant in Hamburg | 2006/2007 visitor scholar in Jitka Hanzlová’s seminar on the HFBK Hamburg | 2013 diploma in pictures on the HGB | 2016 grasp scholar graduate with Tina Bara. Susanne Keichel lives and works in Dresden.
“In her work, Susanne Keichel deals with questions of racism, classism and social justice. In doing so, she creates pictorial spaces that question stereotypes and test visualisation.” (Ines Schaber, Professor of Photography and Media, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig)
Stephan Takkides: Born 1981 in Canterbury | 1999-2000 Foundation Studies, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London | 2002 Universität der Künste Berlin | 2000-2003 BA, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts, London | 2010-2012 MFA, Transart Institute, University of Plymouth, USA/UK | 2018-2021 Master scholar on the HGB with Joachim Brohm. Stephan Takkides lives and works in Leipzig.
“Stephan Takkides is a British-Cypriot photographer and artist who has been naturalised in Germany. In his multi-channel video work ‘Naturalization’, he explores the relationship between nature and national identity, interweaving different perspectives and narrative strands.” (Ines Schaber, Professor of Photography and Media, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig)
The BMW Group and the MdbK
The BMW Group and the MdbK have been linked by a profitable partnership for 18 years. The basis was laid in 2005 with the donation of the great picture assortment ‘AutoWerke: European and American Photography’ with over 70 works – together with works by Thomas Demand, Thomas Struth, Rineke Dijkstra and Candida Höfer – on the event of the opening of the brand new museum constructing and the commissioning of the BMW plant in Leipzig. Since then, the BMW Niederlassung Leipzig and the BMW Group have recurrently supported the museum with acquisitions and exhibitions. In 2023, the 2 companions have agreed on a long-term collaboration with the purpose of BMW supporting the MdbK’s initiatives for modern pictures. In addition to the award, this consists of the assist of exhibitions – similar to the present Evelyn Richter. A Photographer’s Life – and purchases.
The BMW Group’s Cultural Engagement, with unique updates and deeper insights into its world initiatives may be adopted on Instagram at @BMWGroupCulture.
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