Global initiative to foster creativity and innovation
The Mayor’s Fund for London, in partnership with BE OPEN and Berkeley Foundation, hosted a breakfast seminar at City Hall on 25th February titled: Creativity Works ‘Igniting inspiration for young Londoners’.
BE OPEN Foundation has joined forces with the Mayor’s Fund for London to help young unemployed Londoners play a greater part in the future of the capital – through the arts. Elena Baturina has supported the Mayor’s Fund for London initiative, providing a major boost to 17-24 year-olds across the city through arts-based employability programme Creativity Works.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson, Patron of the Mayor’s Fund for London, said: “To ensure London’s status as the indisputable global capital of culture and creativity, it is vital that young Londoners are equipped with the skills they need to enter this most dynamic of sectors. Creativity Works is an excellent way for youngsters to bridge the gap between their artistic talent and the immense opportunities available to them in our city, and having BE OPEN Foundation on board will help to make a real difference. It is fantastic to have supporters like this backing the Mayor’s Fund for London and I hope other individuals and organisations will get on board to help this great cause.”
BE OPEN presents the new tour of YOUNG TALENT AWARD – this year the initiative unites several continents under the topic of GRAPHIC DESIGN. The jurors and participants represent Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Spain, UK, USA and New Zealand.
The candidates have presented their best works to the judgment of high-profile international jury, who are to select the long-list of 30 names. After that the jurors will vote to form the short-list, out of which three winners will be then defined:
Saatchi Gallery, London
13 January – 9 March 2015
In January 2016, an exhibition by Azeri and Russian artist Aidan Salakhova opened in Saatchi Gallery with support from international businesswoman and philanthropist Elena Baturina. Baturina, who is Russian but now resides in London, provided support to the ‘Revelations’ exhibition, which showcases the work Salakhova across painting, drawing, video and sculpture.
Aidan Salakhova is an artist based in Moscow and Carrara, Italy, who works in sculpture, painting, drawing and video. Revelations, curated by Jenny Christensson, will bring together new work, alongside works exhibited at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2012.
The BE OPEN philanthropic foundation announces the completion of another stage of its global educational initiative within the Inside the Academy strand – the design and architecture institutions ranking system. It has conducted extensive research of the curricula of those institutions providing education in design and architecture in respect to two specific developing regions: South America and Asia.
The initiative was launched in 2013, when the foundation started developing the research methodology through analyzing secondary creative education across Europe, the results of that analysis were presented in September the same year. Switching from these most elaborate and “mature” educational systems to ones of South America and Asia, BE OPEN updated its methods to better fit their peculiarities – the dynamic growth, fast development and outstanding potential in the majority of business and public areas.
BE OPEN, the social and cultural foundation that supports creativity and innovation, has published a new rating to analyse policy, provision and excellence in arts teaching across secondary education in Europe.
The rating covers courses ranging from art to craft, design to film and writing to the performing arts in schools across the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy and Spain
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In a crowded press conference held at the Braidense Library inside the historic Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Elena Baturina, Russian businesswoman, philanthropist and founder of BE OPEN Foundation represented by director Genandy Terebkov, has received a special diploma from Martin Kater – director of the Botanical Garden – on behalf of Milan University for the important contribution made by the BE OPEN Foundation for the restoration of the Brera Botanical Garden with the new Pool of Thoughts designed by Politecnico di Milano.
Elena Baturina, Russian businesswoman, philanthropist and founder of BE OPEN Foundation, has been appointed as ambassador for WE-Women for Expo for her drive and commitment to promoting creativity and innovation as tools for dialogue and development in the future. Thanks to the important contribution made by the Be Open Foundation for the restoration of the Brera Botanical Garden with the new Pool of Thoughts designed by Politecnico di Milano, the city of Milan and visitors of the universal exposition will enjoy a renewed natural space that will serve a source of inspiration and change.
Orto Botanico, Milan
within “Energy for Creativity”
13 April – 24 May 2015
BE OPEN, the international foundation created by entrepreneur and philanthropist Elena Baturina which operates in the field of design and creativity, has chosen the Botanical Garden of Brera as the amazing background of a sophisticated interdisciplinary project whose central theme is perfume.
