Marco Polo - apparently a guy with routes from Croatia - most probably for most people stands for travel. What pceople usually do not know - we didn't know - is that he started traveling as a very young man, often with his brothers and father. Well, in fact we want to state, he was not traveling. He was discovering, he was exploring, he was trading. He was doing all this in for him absolutely unknown territories. As if one of us today would start traveling to the stars, trading with other civilizations, that we do not have any idea about. As if political realities did not exist.
A lot of things are remarkable about this: first: the role of his family, second the fact that traveling was the least thing he was actually doing, third globalization. For us today we would therefore like to call him one of the Global School Entrepreneurs. There are many like him who have before him and after him done the same on smaller skales. The @Silkroad40 Project is a reminder of this idea and at the same time an answer to Marco Polo.
@Silkroad40 participating at the #TRA2018
Today - and this is where it gets digital - we have different technologies to explore, to learn and do business. Humans have found pretty efficient ways to do global business, but has learning, has exploration become a global activity? For some it has, but for most it is a dream. It is equally a dream to test and develop technology that not only makes travel a learning experience, but which makes it accessible for everybody. The @Silkroad40 project can serve as the attempt to globalize education, innovation and most of all exploration.
Departure of 
Philipe (
Marco Pollo image by wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo
with a lot of love,
Jean