The celebration of the United Nations Day (UN Day) 2024 with the award ceremony of the Local Agenda Dresden Prize 2024 on October 29^th, 2024.

This year's topic is “ Prospects for Growth”. Together with citizens, experts and representatives from politics, business and research, we will discuss how growth can be measured in order to map and evaluate aspects such as “circular economy”, “ecological diversity” and “social justice” in addition to the classic “gross domestic product” indicator.

The discussion will be linked to the question of what we can contribute at local level to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 8 “Decent Work and Economic Growth” and Goal 17 “Partnerships for the Goals”.

Program

• Opening by Jan Pratzka (Deputy Mayor for Economic Affairs, Digital Affairs, Human Resources and Security of the State Capital Dresden)
• Welcome by Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Günther (Director UNU-FLORES)
• Video message from Prof.in Dr. mult. Dr. h.c. Ulrike Malmendier (Member of the German Council of Economic Experts) )
• Panel discussion with:
  Prof. Dr. Christian Leßmann (Chair of Economics, esp. International Economics, TUD Dresden University of Technology)  
  Nina Treu (Co-founder of Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie)
  Johannes Zieseniß (Scientific advisor of Mission Wertvoll)
• Award Ceremony of the Local Agenda Dresden Competition 2024
• Musical support by the Duo Azind from Leipzig
• Installation by the artist Georg Weyerer entitled SEMPER ALTIUS SEMPER PULCHRIUS SEMPER PLUS (lat. always bigger always better always more)
• Reception and Buffet

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