Cortona Week is an interdisciplinary residency where graduate students and young managers from all over the world and from all disciplines come in contact (in addition to several critical scientists) with artists, musicians, spiritual leaders, poets, professionals in medicine and psychology, and politicians. We work together in round table discussions, lectures and experiential workshops, where the participants can engage, for instance, in painting, sculpture or music, meditation, theatre choosing by themselves which aspects of life are more important for their own equilibrium. The aim, with the help of world-renowned professionals and visionaries , is to open up the horizon of the participants to the values of ecology, ethics, tolerance, internal introspection as well as the actual new frontiers of science, literature, art, economics — the full display of human experience — where life becomes a system view of interacting parts , and not an addition of single isolated domains. We devote ourselves to this task with the cognition that such a holistic, systemic thinking is generally not provided by our common academic institutions — which form specialists in only one discipline – and noticing, as a consequence, that the problems of our world cannot be solved or even tackled by only one discipline at a time. In 2023, we enjoyed student's flash presentations about the Inner Development Goals (IDG) and how young people decided to create hubs and learning events to foster this initi

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