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To all Friends of Wisdom, I am not a philosopher nor an academic, but I came to this group after searching for a network of thinkers and doers interested in contributing to big challenges for humanity. My background is on music and for five years I have been working hard as an cultural social entrepreneur to give voice to people and to find open communication by training and collecting knowledge from people to share it using what technologies can provide us with. Wisdom in my view doesn´t belong to Academia although I agree that Universities should play a more proactive role in society. I am planning to develop an organisation organically with wisdom and intergenerational learning at its core. So I am sharing my plans with you as I am sure you have a lot to contribute with. This is my take on wisdom. I would like to hear from those of you with experience in intergenerational practise. For five years we have been working in the area of intergenerational learning,creative heritage, knowledge transfer using participatory methods across music and digital media. As a SME we came to the conclusion that there is a need to implement collaborative learning and to include wisdom as part of competences not only in academia but also in businesses. We are looking for new ways of sharing collective wisdom. I would like to share with you a presentation I made recently at the Triple Helix conference in London where the point I wanted to make is that in order to achieve long term partnership we need to question the traditional knowledge transfer as we believe innovation and knowledge also lies in small players like us which are delivering new models to solve complex problems. SMEs and Universities Collaborative Partnerships http://prezi.com/arrexlgyy1t2/universities-and-smes-collaborative-partnerships We are planning to establish MILO an initiative to match young graduates with retired professionals from business to work together in a traditional one to one mentorship scheme. In addition all participants will be creating and playing music together, so we will be creating an intergenerational wisdom transfer model using an orchestra as an innovation lab. As a result of the individual and collective exchanges, Leadership, Communication, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Empathy are some of the learning outcomes sought that we will be able to measure using our methods such as crowdversations®. In addition young people will be able to experience the field and work in social housing estates to roll on our media project Creative Generation (http://www.creative-generation.org.uk). So if you want to be part of it as a mentor/musician and submit an expression of interest get in touch with me via emailat [log in to unmask] or telephone 07811458779. If you work for an University that would like to be part of this initiative let us know. Best wishes Sergio Sergio López Figueroa, Big Bang Lab, Director London, UK [log in to unmask] www.bigbang-lab.com mob. +44 (0)7811458779 Skype kinoscore Cultural Social Responsibility Network www.culturalsocialresponsibility.org Personal Blog http://bigbanglab.culture360.org Mailing list http://alturl.com/4vcgs Twitter @bigbanglab Facebook facebook.com/bigbanglab