How can art and culture contribute to developing a positive forward-looking European understanding of competitiveness that is confident, open minded and attractive? Most importantly, this entails understanding Europe’s social, cultural and environmental standards as competitive strength rather than weakness.
Rather than competing against one another, the SUMMIT is a call to join forces for developing a vision of a different kind of competitiveness – one that is closer to the original meaning of the Latin word competere as in “to strive together” or “to seek together” which is the root of many words from competence to competition. Such an understanding of competitiveness would have far reaching consequences, from skills development to investment into independent digital infrastructure of the European CCI.
Teresa Ribera is the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition
Miguel Ángel Herrera Gutiérrez is an entrepreneur and Mayor of Genalguacil
Florian Schneider is professor at NTNU and coordinator of PACESETTERS.
Annela Anger-Kraavi is project lead of the Climate Change Policy Group (CCPG) at the University of Cambridge.