The 4th EoF Global Gathering (((On Air))) is now round the corner: it will take place on 6 October starting at 16:00, live streaming from the Serafico Institute in Assisi
«The 25th hour. EoF (On Air) Global Gathering»
The programme will take the form of a web radio, in English with translations into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French and can be followed at YouTube Channel of The Economy of Francesco.
About a year after the event in Assisi (22-24 September 2022), the meeting on 6 October will try to convey stories, dreams, vocations and experiences that are part of the capital of The Economy of Francesco and that have a voice and a face in each of the young protagonists of this global community. There is great expectation for the message that the Holy Father will address to the young economists and entrepreneurs of the world gathered online for the occasion.
As the days go by, more and more news about the event are being published. Among them a first overview of the entries in the Contest launched this summer ‘The stories we are’ that, in just over a month, has received about 100 entries arriving in 6 languages from 22 countries on 5 continents. 24 poems, 14 letters to the future, 15 figurative works, and also some videos, songs, diary entries, short stories, graphic novels, and even a video game. We already knew it, now we are certain. The economists and entrepreneurs of EoF are real artists!
Alongside the necessarily specialized languages, the quantitative, mathematical and analytical approaches through which young people study the problems of the current economic system and rethink a paradigmatic change (in economic theory and practice), the EoF generation attempts the impossible: to find new words and images to contribute to a season of renewal for the narrative and spiritual capital of our time.
In this endeavour, too, the Economy of Francesco seeks to fulfil its calling of prophetic economy.
There is also the news on the 3rd International Congress of the Economy of Francesco, Latin America and the Caribbean, to be held from 4 to 6 October 2023 in Colombia and entitled Weaving Economies for Peace. A congress that will conclude on 6 October with a live talk by the young participants of the global event broadcast by the Serafico Institute of Assisi.
Precisely on Oct. 6, another major national event will begin: that of the Italians, scheduled until Sunday, 8 October. More than 100 young people from all over Italy are expected at the Shrine of the Spoliation in Assisi. In short, it is a real relay race between Colombia and Italy that will pass through the whole world from 4:00 to 6:30 and will be linked to the EoF’s international YouTube channel to celebrate the annual meeting.
Young people from many other countries around the world decided, in the various regional hubs, to gather as a group to participate in the event, which, we wish to remind you, will broadcast its program in the form of web radio. Let’s ask the organisers: Why radio?
«In the previous months, while proposing the annual October event, we used the phrase online but not only to indicate that the event would be in an online mode to allow everyone to participate in the link-up but, at the same time, to encourage those who wish to take the opportunity to organize local in-person events. In short, online and a bit offline, not just one, and not without the other. This is precisely the experience that the radio offers! Whether alone, with friends or family, at work or at home, or on the way home from work: when that can’t-miss segment or favourite programme starts, you tune in to the frequency with a click! Music, insight, information, and interaction, the radio narrates by suggesting and celebrating humanity with its many languages and sounds, reaches the widest audience, where all voices can express themselves, be represented, and be heard.
But the radio is not only a medium. It is also style and rhythm. After a whole year in which the reflection on narrative capital accompanied the youth of EoF, choosing the radio that privileges words, by definition, seemed very suggestive and natural to us. So we thought of the “grandmother” of all modern communication systems but in its most recent version, that of web radio, where words and sounds, while being always at the centre of the narrative, are accompanied by images. So, on 6 October we will listen to each other a lot but we will also be able to see each other, like before and more than ever!»
Thus, the Eof (((ON AIR))) was born: to shorten distances, to reach out to the EoF generation wherever they are, and to celebrate the Economy of Francesco, with its load of dreams, experiences, and its own, necessary, new words..
There will certainly be more news about the event in the coming days: stay tuned so you don't miss anything of this 4th EoF Global Event!