The students association „Greifswald International Students Festival. (GrIStuF) e.V.“ from Greifswald, Germany, will conduct the seventh international students' festival in June 2014   . More than 100 students from all over europe will get together to exchange views on global themes and get to know one another. The motto of this event is Lost in consumption – Rethinking economy.
The reason for this theme were recent events in the worldwide economy, starting off with the Lehman Brothers and the financial crisis, then leading via the economic crisis towards multiple impending national bankruptcies. By now the consequences of all these events have reached the middle of our european society, for some more by means of recurring reports im the media, for others much more specific in form of massive unemployment in southern europe.
What kind of process is at work here, what are the social and ecological impacts? What role does the economic system play, what influences do we, the consumers have? And most of all: What caused the current problems and how can we approach them, what could we do differently in the future?
We would like to invite the students to discuss different themes of consumption and economy critically in a variety of workshops. Next to the thematic work we also offer an extensive social program to the students.
The application phase is already running and will end on the 15th of January, 2014. More detailed information about the festival and its programme can be found on our website www.students-festival.de.