 Hi, I'm Kalina Arvachieva and I'm a researcher at the European Trade Union Institute. For us, beyond growth means moving away from the paradigm of economic growth as a central objective of our economies and as a main indicator of their success. It means focusing instead on well-being, on social justice and equality and on participation, which is some of the main things that we are the ETI concerned with in the context of the world of work. As the organizations representing working people, trade unions have a key role to play in the post-growth movement. They are well placed, for example, to understand and to address the concerns of workers on the ground, but also to involve workers in the development of a post-growth vision that works for them. As a social movement that has been a powerful agent for social change, they can also generate worker support and political momentum behind making this vision a practical reality. Hello, I'm Kathie Wiese, I'm leading our economic transition team of the European Environmental Bureau. We are a large network of environmental organizations based in Brussels and within the economic transition team we try to change the economic system in a way to make it more sustainable from an environmental but also from a social justice perspective. We always think about the economic system as something unchangeable and fixed, but it doesn't really help to me the way the rules and social norms and stories shape our economic system where designed by people and that can also change for people. Care should be organized in a non-patriarchal and more democratic way, so that also means distributing unpaid and paid care-working activities more equally in our societies. And to just give you an example, FIDER-OF is actually quite a popular proposal to decouple work from growth, but from an economic perspective it wouldn't really change so much because care is actually a daily activity, so for people who are caring responsibilities a reduction of daily working hours would benefit them more than a day off. And that's for me, that's why it's so important to integrate families' ideas into our visions and policies so that we ensure a truly sustainable and socially just alternative response. My name is Kempers Vardak, I'm a Dutch member of the European Parliament for the Greens EFA Group and I mainly work on digitization and the impact it has on both our society and the environment. The digital world is still very much based on an extractive vision of our society. We're extracting raw materials from the ground to make sure we can build data centers. We're extracting knowledge from people to add into those data centers and then on top of that we use those data centers to further extract the already existing knowledge that is on the internet and use it often without our consent, without any regard for privacy of people to make money. And also that's the only goal. I imagine that we have a world where it's not only just a few big players that are in power that decide what you and I get to see online or that decide how we look at health or at education based on data, on metrics. No, actually everyone should have a say. Everyone should be able to decide what happens with their data, how the internet is organized and also to what extent we digitize. Hello, I'm Dirk Hollermanns, I'm Co-President of the Green European Foundation and I'm working on the future of the ecological welfare state and of course we already have a welfare state but this rests on an attractive economy, exploiting people in the global south and also destroying nature. So the challenge is to build a new what you could call well-being state that provides a good life for all while respecting the plenty boundaries. We have an enormous gap between the rich and the poor so we really need to tax reform and have actually you could say we cannot afford as the rich so we have to have a wealth tax and this gives of course the money to pay for a decent living for everyone and I think a quite interesting proposal for instance is a care income so people that want to take care of the neighborhood want to take care of their family that we provide them with a care income so they're not dependent on the markets to have some buying power. AFIG at the moment is focusing on post-growth and we just created a platform, the Beyond Growth platform with a group of 15 young people that are working on the topic and we're trying to push the political agenda especially our Green Family agenda to focus on post-growth and to understand how post-growth can be an alternative from the capitalist and society of an economic system based merely on growth to an alternative economic system that is instead based on people, based on environment, based on care. We need to work with the younger generation because this is their present and this will be their future and structuring an economic system that is for them and for the survival of us on this planet is the best and the most important thing we can do and we cannot do for them but we must do it with them.