Projects
Ilco is founder of MasterPeace, a new global peace project. "Creating Peace. Together." MasterPeace aims to provide a mesmerizing Peace Concert on International Peace Day (21 September) in 2014, in Cairo, Egypt. Tickets for the concert will not be on sale; those who wish to attend have to “deserve” them, by actually doing something for peace. Action must be taken between the official launch of MasterPeace on Peace Day 2011 and Peace Day 2014. Because peace-building is a verb.
www.masterpeace.org will provide many appealing opportunities for peacebuilding from 2011 onwards. And finally by 20.14 we aim to have mobilised 20 million people worldwide to 'embrace' the 14 most terrible conflicts and their possible solutions: Connectivity, Positivity, Peacebuilding and the UN Millennium Development Goals.
In order to achieve this, MasterPeace will develop innovative and bottom-up campaigning, that will start with pre-launching activities in the course of 2010. On 5 May 2010 the MasterPeace logo will be presented before an audience of 150,000 people at the 'Bevrijdingspop' festival in Haarlem, Holland.
www.masterpeace.org will provide many appealing opportunities for peacebuilding from 2011 onwards. And finally by 20.14 we aim to have mobilised 20 million people worldwide to 'embrace' the 14 most terrible conflicts and their possible solutions: Connectivity, Positivity, Peacebuilding and the UN Millennium Development Goals.
In order to achieve this, MasterPeace will develop innovative and bottom-up campaigning, that will start with pre-launching activities in the course of 2010. On 5 May 2010 the MasterPeace logo will be presented before an audience of 150,000 people at the 'Bevrijdingspop' festival in Haarlem, Holland.
The MasterPeace Head Quarters will be based in Egypt and run by Ilco's companion Mohammed Helmy (see picture), the former Dance4Life Egypt Project Leader.
Ilco is co-founder of Dance4Life, the biggest global youth project pushing back HIV and Aids by learning, talking, campaigning and dancing. The project is currently active in 23 countries. The Dance4Life concept is based on the Confucius theme: 'Tell me and I will forget, Show me and I may remember, Involve me and I will understand." Since the start in 2002 till 2007 Ilco was the international CEO. Now he's still one of the International Ambassadors. Learn more by checking out the website www.dance4life.com or the award winning commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM6516Re_ns
Ilco is founder of the Bevrijdingspop ("Liberation Pop") Festival, developed to celebrate the end of the 2nd World War and to cherish and support human rights and diversity. With 150.000 visitors yearly Bevrijdingspop is one of the biggest festivals of the Netherlands. See also www.bevrijdingspop.nl (only in Dutch). Between 1980 and 1995 Ilco was chair and director of Bevrijdingspop, working voluntary. 
Between 1990 and 2003 Ilco's company Music Trends Events (MTE) was pionering in the experience marketing industry. Many successfull events were developed (see Ilco's LinkedIn profile). Asked by the National Committee on the 4th and 5th of May (Liberation Day) Ilco developed a yearly cultural & human rights project with thirteen Bevrijdingsfestivals, all on the Liberation Day. With yearly almost one million visitors its now the biggest theme based youth project of Western Europe. Starting 1995 till 2001 Ilco also designed and produced the National Classical Concert celebrating Liberation Day in the centre of Amsterdam. This concert is yearly broadcasted live and visited by Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, Beatrix.
