Monthly Archives: January 2008

About "Jugend denkt Zukunft"

About 1.5 years ago some students (including me) from our school participated in a federally supported project called "Jugend denkt Zukunft" ("Youth think Future" - and yes it sounds shitty in German, too, and uses bad grammar...).

Interestingly enough most articles that have been translated don't translate the grammar error, too, examples here, here and here.

Let me explain what it is about:
The school partners with a local company (or rather the other way around because it seems that the local company has to pay a lot of money (some 6000 EUR) to the organization - NGO, of course - to participate and you (that is if you are the students) are part of a "role-playing game", in which you first learn about "mega trends" of the future and then in the last two days have to come up with new product ideas that have more or less (mostly less) to do with the company and its current product lines.

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