"Today, the role of culture is to furnish contemporary society with the intellectual and moral tools to survive—nothing less” (A.Maalouf, Le Dérèglement Du Monde, 2010).

Living Stone Centre for Intercultural Entrepreneurship is founded in 2005 as a spin-off of Leuven Research & Development together with Joker/Living Stone Network, and joined by Cera, a cooperative financial group in 2007. The centre is headquartered in Belgium.

LIVING STONE CENTRE is the practical make-up of two legal entities:
• Living Stone Cooperation, a cooperative company that unlocks individual and organizational potential through its focus on intercultural competence learning and development
• Living Stone Fund, research chair at K.U.Leuven, that focuses on a deeper understanding of interculturalism at the level of individual actors and their organizations. HIVA K.U.Leuven, Research Institute for Work and Society, is academic partner.

Chairman is prof.dr.Koenraad Debackere, Director General of K.U.Leuven
Managing director is co-founder Bob Elsen, managing director of Joker Tourism nv

Challenges of International Development Cooperation

"Public support for small water and sanitation projects is high, for the health clinic and school. But new actors populate the field. They are children of the age of globalisation. Their logic of intervention does not stem from the development aid community. They know how to act as schoolmasters, as trade unionists, as sports people or as entrepreneurs. So why couldn't they do it elsewhere, together with colleagues from Botswana, Belize or Bangladesh?", P. Develtere, Director General of HIVA K.U.Leuven and Director LSC until 2010.  
http://www.contextmasterclass.nl/docs/200807281756301393.pdf