Dear Colleagues and Friends,
For those of you who could not attend Well-Being 2022: Knowledge for informed decisions, we are sorry to have missed you. If you would like to see the recordings of main events, we are releasing them this week. Please see a link below. For those of you who attended, we thank you for making it a great success, and you can ignore the rest of this email. Sorry for cross posting.
Here’s a teaser from the Policy Round Table:
Approximately 90 speakers from around the world came together in Luxembourg to discuss the quest for better lives. We addressed questions such as: How do we promote well-being? What are the best policies? What is the role for civil society? How can these insights help us to address the environmental, social, and economic challenges of today and the future? Additional topics pertaining primarily to subjective well-being more generally were also presented. The program is available here.
In addition to 26 parallel sessions, the events included: opening remarks from the Minister of the Economy (Franz Fayot); a round table discussion on how policy-makers can integrate the findings from well-being studies (including panelists from Luxembourg, Martijn Burger (Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization (EHERO)), Nancy Hey (What Works Centre for Wellbeing), and Katherine Scrivens (OECD)); an introduction of Luxembourg’s Index of Well-being and presentation of new results by Serge Allegrezza (Director of STATEC); an opening talk from a civil society activist (author and filmmaker John De Graaf); a workshop on the World Database of Happiness by its creator Ruut Veenhoven; four keynote speeches by Stefano Bartolini, Andrew Clark, Carol Graham, and Andrew Oswald; and a very lively and fun social dinner.
I’m pleased to say the keynote recordings are available now.
The playlist of keynotes is available here in chronological order (Stefano Bartolini, Andrew Clark, and Carol Graham): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzVmx4nda5k4z81kbnTOQQv9Q8fERU2ES. Unfortunately we could not post Andrew Oswald’s as some of the material is currently under review.
We will release the videos for Ruut Veenhoven (on the World Database of Happiness), John De Graaf (Economics of Beauty), and Serge Allegrezza (Luxembourg Index of Wealth) in the coming days. We also hope to release the policy round table and opening remarks by the Minister of the Economy (Franz Fayot) soon after that.
We encourage you to share widely and hope that collectively we can turn some of this momentum into change.
Best Regards,
The Organizing Committee
