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An Inspiring Life

Lifelong

• I am part of the continuum of life spanning from my grandparents to my grandchildren, and this is perhaps the only life I have. 

• Only I—no one else—can live it, and I want to do it in a meaningful way.

EU-wide

• As a citizen of my own country, I am also a citizen of the European Union—part of a culturally rich union comprising 27 countries and 450 million people. 

• However, the accelerating development of interaction technology—alongside the need for technological sovereignty and its economic implications—reveals a missing element: the need to digitally upskill us, the 450 million citizens, from baby to senior, to meet the goals of the "Digital Decade 2030".

Dream-high

• "Personal EU" offers a practical and concrete solution that has been missing from the Union's goal of placing people at the heart of its activities.

• It fosters cross-border and all-encompassing community among EU citizens.

• It creates a digital civic right—via the "TeamFinder" service—and provides every EU citizen with a platform for Union-wide (up to 27-country) peer teams that support daily life, hobbies, startup activities, entrepreneurship...

• It establishes the spirit and framework for extensive international interaction between administrative units and citizen-led, organically growing communities (organizations and organi(c)zations); Everyone is working towards shared goals regarding safety and well-being.

• This would be the pinnacle of European social sovereignty: a system that transforms the continent’s diversity and cooperation into its greatest competitive advantage.

Five Stages of Life: A Path of Values ​​and Skills

• 1. The Years of Wonder (0–2 years): A Safe Start

• Core: Security and attachment.

• Identity: A child’s first, protected, EU-wide digital identity. Securely links health data to the parents' digital wallet. No commercialization—only protection.

• 2. The Years of Discovery (3–12 years): Playful Collaboration

• Core: Curiosity and the idea that "the world is a friend."

• Personal EU: "Team in action." Playful online connections—at school and at home—with other children across the EU (e.g., a shared storytime or exploring different first names with a French kindergarten). Technology is a friend guided by the child.

• 3. The Years of Learning (13–25 years): A Sparring Partner

• Core: Gaining independence and critical thinking. Your personal EU "skills backpack": collect micro-credentials, language exchange experiences, and volunteer work experience. TeamFinder helps you find partner classes, summer jobs, and mentors across borders.

• 4. Years of application and renewal (ages 26–65): Continuous growth

• Core: Flexibility and the ability to "unlearn" the old.

• Personal EU: Changes in working life offer opportunities. TeamFinder—and through it, your own "Union team" with its PPPP connections—helps you apply your skills to new environments and channel time spent on social media into an innovation network of 450 million people that broadens your life.

• 5. Years of wisdom and passing the baton (ages 66+): Community anchor

• Core: Sharing experiences and bridging generations.

• Personal EU: Seniors act as "mirrors of life." Digital interaction with young people (e.g., "mentor a grandparent" activities) keeps the mind sharp and ensures the transmission of values.

Guided by our shared will, life on the "Planet of the European Union" is not a bureaucratic system but an "inspiring resource"—something that lightens the burden of daily life, deepens our expertise, and connects me and my team to the European community of 450 million people spanning all age groups, from infants to the elderly.

In every country, there is someone who most resembles me or complements me best. These people should be part of my Personal EU team.

Kurt Linderoos, "Mr. Personal EU",  Espoo's first "Entrepreneur of the Year"

Life is Worth Trying

The cell-planet thinking was successfully used already in the 1980s to demonstrate a new kind of human value in the public renewal of the internal and external corporate image of Valmet Paper Finishing Systems' international industrial organization.

😁 "Growing an individual into a whole planet of cells with the idea of ​​cooperation became a huge challenge in my work, when I realized that every citizen of an EU country is also a citizen of the European Union with the associated rights and challenges. And that this Union-wide realization can be the beginning of a new bright era for 450 million people and a happier cooperation between all levels of the Union. Already at the beginning of 2006, I was invited to the Commission's workshop in Brussels to talk about the core and route map of the "Personal EU" initiative. Shortly after that, I was happy with the decision to use the theme as the information society theme of Finland's EU presidency. Of course, I was also happy to quickly earn the nickname "Mr. Personal EU".

😁 15 years later, on 15 December 2022, key EU leaders signed a very citizen-oriented declaration "Digital rights and principles" in Brussels. I am happy that this kind of opening finally fits the EU frameworks.

Along with such positive progress, I would like to mention a couple of instructive moments for the coming days, so that the last step of the "certain victory" of the idea would also be secured in time.

😣 As part of the aforementioned Valmet corporate image process with cell planet thinking, a "Personal guide" was published for the personnel, 1300 people. However, the HR manager demanded that the name of the newly printed brochure be changed to "Personnel Guide". So, before help arrived, I had to order 1300 stickers at my own expense and stick them on the "wrong translation" myself.

😣 It is also necessary to remember once again the moment in 2005 when cellular planets and hierarchical boxes bitterly exchanged places with each other: my already approved program as the information society theme of Finland's EU presidency underwent a "small" change: The theme "Personal EU" was accepted during the delegation's trip to Brussels in the form of "Leadership" ."

It's good that you now know this, and after scrolling through these pages the human-centric nature of the Personal EU era as a whole.  Let's grow to be Union-wide.
EU is YOU!