Itinera gaat voor een samenleving waar het aangenaam is om te leven, waar frisse, ambitieuze ideeën de kans krijgen uit te groeien tot duurzame ondernemingen, waar onderwijs jongeren klaarstoomt en zin geeft, en waar innovaties transformeren in succesvolle producten in een economie die blijft bloeien.
Happiness is back, both in the sciences and in politics. While the economy is suffering from a systemic crisis, the time is ripe for an explicit happiness agenda that seeks to steer society consciously towards personal wellbeing.
Since higher education has been decentralized in Belgium, public financing of universities in both communities has almost been frozen. Students’ coaching has been continuously scrapped for the last forty years; which certainly does not help the graduation rate.
Housing becomes ever more expensive for buyers as well as for renters. Johan Albrecht and Rob Van Hoofstat show – in a new Itinera Institute study – that the demand for new houses increases every year while construction of new buildings decreases.
