Annual report 2017/18 Preamble Preamble

Lisa Sonnberger Franz Fischler Chairwoman of the Forum Alpbach Network President of the European Forum Alpbach

Uncertainty and the revival of ‘universalisms’ seem people to actively participate at the European I‘m impressed again and again to see the hunger From working in the committees to looking to be the recurring themes of our time influenced Forum Alpbach but further aims to encourage for knowledge and the commitment brought after the hundreds of scholarship holders – the by binary thinking using conflicting terms such as young people to become active agents in their by hundreds of scholarship holders from all over representatives of the Forum Alpbach Network ‘us’ and the ‘others’. Often ‘us’ implies a benchmark societies during the year. How can we use our the world to Alpbach every year. Their fresh breathe life into the “Spirit of Alpbach” and carry it that all ‘others’ shall align themselves to and cumulative power in order to master future ideas, visions and ways of thinking shape each out into the world. This enables the many projects, elusive terms such as ‘values’ are easily dropped challenges together? Perhaps you are familiar European Forum Alpbach and make a significant initiatives and friendships born in Alpbach to take in that regard. But what are these so ubiquitously with the Marvel movies ‘Avengers’? What I want contribution to the unique atmosphere of the effect and to grow further. One such example proclaimed ‘values’? Definitions are commonly to highlight here is that behind every chapter of Forum. It’s not only us organisers who appreciate is the „My Europe - My Story“ initiative, which left in vagueness. I observe an international this set of movies lays the same embedded message: this breath of fresh air but also all of our speakers the European Forum Alpbach and the Forum trend of what I would call societies’ demand for Although each superhero/ine is already strong on and participants. Alpbach Network have launched together with the ‘simplification’. The desire for short and concise their own, it is the biggest challenges that are only European Parliament. In the wake of the European explanations can be found everywhere, starting to be won when fighting as a united front. The many members of the Forum Alpbach Parliament elections in May 2019, a three-hour- from the news content to our own mindset. Network carry this “Spirit of Alpbach” into more workshop will give the necessary impetus and skills Therefore the Forum Alpbach Network Board’s aim than 90 countries - without their voluntary work it young people need to launch debates about Europe What can the network do in this regard? We is to challenge, connect and inspire our ‘Network would be impossible for us to attract such a diverse in their home countries. are a strong network of more than 30 clubs and Avengers’. I am convinced that together we can group of scholarship holders and participants. additionally 30 ambassadors from over 20 regions. build on shared commonalities and speak with our The Forum Alpbach Network is a strong voice for I’d like to thank all my colleagues working in The network as a whole not only enables young unique international voice. the younger generation, embodying in its work the Forum Alpbach Network, from the Board the values that the Europe of tomorrow needs so to the Standing Committee to the Clubs and urgently: openness, far-sightedness and critical, but Ambassadors, for their commitment and effective always constructive, dialogue. cooperation. You are the reason why we have no fears for the future of the European Forum Alpbach.

2 3 The Network Number of Clubs/IGs: 32 Number of Ambassadors: 31 in 23 regions Number of scholarships 2018: 379

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Our Mission The Forum Alpbach R Member FAN Board of EFA General Advisory O assigns Board F Assembly FAN Network Standing N A SEMINARS Commit- EFA E Council P tee EFA Scientific O TALKS Our mission is to serve as a hub for The Forum Alpbach Network is made up Council R EU Clubs, Initiative Groups and Alpbach of Clubs and Initiative Groups (IGs) from EVENTS RETREATS LABS Scholarship holders. We want to more than 30 regions. The Clubs and — strengthen the European Idea by IGs are youth organizations that share Clubs connecting people from differentthe Forum’s core values and intentions backgrounds and supporting them in and are awarding scholarships to young DISSE- their own projects. people from their region. They also host MINA- TION regular panel discussions, talks or other form events.

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4 5 FAN Board 2017/2018

Lisa Sonnberger José Magnaye Chairwoman Member of the Board • Coordination of FAN • Communication towards • FAN Conferences • Working groups General Assembly, FAN EFA Board, EFA Council, • Legal Affairs Board and FAN Advisory EFA General Assembly Boards and FAN Standing • Diversity Committee • FAN Standing Committe strategy and support

Raphael Wurm Sophie Rendl Member of the Board Co-Opted Member of the Board • Communication to • FAN strategy • Coordination of the Stan- • „Young Experts on the Clubs and IGs • Projects ding Committee Panels“-Programme • (Re)vitalization of Clubs • Conferences • Ambassador programme

Benjamin Monsorno Member of the Board • Social media strategy and • Communication content creation • Newsletters • Finance 2017/18 Hard Facts EFA 17 Standing Committee: IG Wien EFA 18 Standing Committee: Club Alpbach 2017 Fall Conference: Club Alpbach Senza Confini Florian Altendorfer 2018 Spring Conference: Club Alpbach Tirol Member of the Board • Layout / CI • Photos & videos • Website • Printdesigns • Technical administration

6 7 FAN News 2017/2018 EFA News 2017/2018

At the FAN General Assembly 2017, During the year we held Strategy Two new EFA Board members: transformation of societies. The EFA taking place during the EFA17, José Workshops as well board internal as Michaela Fritz (Medical University sees it as its task to contribute to this Magnaye, former co-opted member of the together with the EFA Foundation. ) central issue. This should happen board, was elected as full board member. In June 2018 a get together of past FAN- Shalini Randeria (Institute for Human in the areas of education policy, Sophie Rendl, member of the Standing Board (respectively EFA-AN-Board) Sciences, Vienna) innovation, etc. Committee 2017, joined the FAN Board members took place. • How can the Forum further deal as new co-opted member, responsible Goals of the last EFA Board exams: the important topic of sustainability for continuity in the coordination of the The last board meeting in the summer of and transformation at the Forum? Standing Committee and also the new 2017 dealt intensively with the range of The EFA is guided by its own YEOTP programme (see page 10). services offered by the EFA and analyzed desire, inter alia, to strike a balance it. The end of the Baukulturgespräche and between economy, ecology and the Hochschulgespräche, as well as the social responsibility, as a sustainable establishment of the „Encounters“ are the economic and social model. direct result of the decisions of the exam. • Options for possibilities of This year‘s board meeting focused more presentations to bring together on the content of EFA‘s positioning and the insights from the different development, especially in the light of perspectives on the political and / or current political developments in Europe. practical relevance of the lectures and debates during the seminar week and Topics that the EFA Board has been the symposia in Alpbach. working on in the last strategic meeting • Furthermore, since a few months in concern to concrete implementations we have been fostering the idea of ideas: a proper FAN Festival for young people during the last two days of • How to deal with the topics learning the Forum Alpbach. We are currently and education in Alpbach now that developing an event-concept and are the „Hochschulgespräche“ are not in contact with other organisators of taking part at the EFA any more. similar youth-festivals in Europe. Education is a key factor in the development of societies and has The EFA Board changes in three years. a very positive impact on income, gender equality, democracy and the

8 9 YEOTP FAN Conferences 2017/18

The Young Experts on the Panels of high-profile speakers coming from Fall Conference Ljubljana, 17th to Spring Conference Innsbruck, 18th initiative was launched this year to the Network and submitted the most 19th November 2017 - hosted by Club to 20th May 2018 - hosted by Club increase the proportion of young speakers promising applications to the Forum Alpbach Senza Confini Alpbach on the Forum’s panels. We believe that where they were considered and selected as with their unique perspectives and speakers where thematically appropriate. As the general topic of the 2018 In light of their 20th anniversary, Club outstanding academic backgrounds, European Forum Alpbach is ‚Diversity Alpbach Tyrol graciously hosted the spring the members of the FAN important for Overall, we are very happy with how this and Resilience‘ the fall conference was conference. The start-up atmosphere at the a progressive dialogue at the European initiative turned out. The collaboration conducted under the overarching theme Werkstätte Wattens provided the perfect Forum Alpbach. with the advisory boards, project of ‚Opportunities through diversity‘. setting for the conference‘s overarching managers and the European Forum Following the 2014 Diversity Charter, theme ‚What if ...‘ centered on the Together with the FAN members present Alpbach leadership was very fruitful and the conference tackled diversity within current challenges for the individual FAN in the advisory panels of the respective we are confident that this initiative can the FAN and in lights of its activities. members and the network as a whole. The talks, we launched a very successful call continue to grow in the coming years. The conference was opened by a panel idea was to work on viable solutions for for applications from the Network. We discussion in cooperation with Bled challenging scenarios embedded within were extremely surprised by the number Strategic Forum and the Center for a small simulation game. In addition, European Perspective and was focused the conference provided a first point of on the trends and challenges in cyber- exchange for many new Club/IG board security. A wide range of FAN related members and giving them room for issues were discussed including a vision knowledge sharing on their individual and mission for the Network, the kick-off activities (e.g. scholarships, local events, for Working Groups, the ‚Young Experts etc.) on the Panels‘ project, a draft ‚Code of As an opening, Club Alpbach Tyrol Conduct‘ and the FAN Diversity Charter. organised a wonderful dinner with a fantastic view at Nordkette and hosted a party to celebrate their 20th anniversary!

10 11 Club Alpbach Steiermark IG Wien

Contact: [email protected] [email protected] Contact: [email protected] President (Club): Prof. Herwig Hösele President (Club): Hannah Zach President (IG): Stefan Rothbart Board Members: Simone Berg, Melanie Klug, Goran Maric, Vice-Presidents (IG): Julian Jank, Antonia Schirgi Dominic Spitaler, Johannes Stangel, Simon Pötschko Country: Country: Austria City: City: Wien Founding Year: 1977 Founding Year: 2007 Scholarships (total/returner): 58 / 18 Scholarships (total/returner): 18 / 3 Number of members: 350 Number of members: 70 Web: www.castmk.at Web: www.ig-wien.at

IG Graz-Leoben, the Styrian alumni-organization, Univ.Prof. Dr. Harald Heppner Besides all of that, IG Wien communications team is part of Club Alpbach . During EFA17 we • „Die neue Macht der Lüge, Desinformation gave our website a new look and remodeled our hosted the 11th annual Speakers’ Night on the to- im digitalen Zeitalter“, with Prof. Bernhard corporate design. (Take a look! www.ig-wien.at) pic “Conflict & Tolerance. More tolerance = less Pörksen We also released new IG Wien canvas bags starring conflict?” with changed procedures and rules as Schrödinger‘s cat #athoughtexperiment. compared to the previous years. Ten speakers pre- sented their three-minute talks and were rewarded points ranging from one to ten by a renowned jury. Furthermore, we co-hosted the Isac Odei Soccer Tournament together with Club . The traditional Soccer Tournament was renamed to “Isaac Odei” cup to honour a scholarship holder who died during EFA15. 2017/2018 was again a very busy year for IG Wien. We assembled a new board in October, organized The the IG organized various meetings too. After new and diverse events in Vienna, brought in some EFA17 we hosted monthly informal meetings. Ad- new looks for our online appearance and selected ditionally, we organized various trips, like historical our #efa18 scholarship holders. We are very glad guided tours to the famous “Grazer Schlossberg”. that our monthly „Stammtisch“ is not only visited Just before Christmas we met for our traditional by members of IG Wien but also by members of Christmas party. Early in 2018 we started the pre- other clubs and IGs. paration for EFA18. To promote our scholarship program we send out information to all Styrian Besides the monthly meetings and our Christmas up-and-coming young scientists. Additionally Party, we discussed the influence of far right groups In addition to contributing to EFA, Club Alpbach we hosted informative meetings at different uni- Styria and IG Graz-Leoben maintain the “Spirit of versities, namely University of Graz, Graz Uni- on Austrian politics at DÖW (Dokumentationsar- And last but absolutely not least, we went through Alpbach” throughout the year by organizing dif- versity of Technology, University of Music and chiv des Österreichischen Widerstands) which we a very intense selection process for this year‘s scho- ferent events. Between EFA17 and EFA18 Club Performing Arts Graz, Montanuniversit Leoben, already did for the second time and which we want larship holders. As in the years before, we had a Alpbach Styria hosted various discussions, such as: Medical University of Graz, and also universities to continue to do so in the following years. huge number of applications. It took us almost of applied sciences, FH Joanneum and CAM- a month to select our #scholarshipholders with • „Ist der Spalt in unserer Gesellschaft kitt- PUS 02. After our scientific commission selec- We organized a screening of the movie „Macht whom we are very proud and excited to attend bar?”, with Mag. Nalan Gündüz, Univ.Prof. ted this years’ scholarship holders, we held two Energie“, discussed about „complex systems“ with #efa18 with. Dr. Joseph Marko, Philippe Narvall M.Sc and preparatory meetings prior to EFA18. Once in the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. ao.Univ.Prof. Dr. Katharina Scherke. Alpbach we organized a first welcoming and get • „Cyber-Security” with Dr. Stefan Mangard together prior to the opening of the forum. Du- We had an exclusive guided tour through „MU- and DI. Dr. Ingrid Schaumüller-Bichl ring EFA18 we are again hosting the Speakers’ MOK - Museum of Modern Art Vienna“ and our • „Passarowitz 1718“, Gedanken zur immer- Night as well as co-hosting the Isaac Odei cup. annual „Sommer Lesung“ with the legendary po- währenden Aktualität von Geschichte, with etry bot.

12 13 Club Alpbach Georgia Club Alpbach Salzburg

Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] President: Ana Vachadze President: Julia Brugger Vice President: Tamar Taralashvili, George Tkebuchava Board Members: Tina Emambakhsh, David Fisslthaler, Board Members: Tatia Sigua, Vazha Datuashvili Lisa Höllbacher, Robert Holztrattner, Thomas Meneweger, Livia Wurzer Country: Georgia Country: Austria City: Tbilisi City: Salzburg Founding Year: 2017 Founding Year: 2011 Scholarships (total/returner): 8 / 0 Scholarships (total/returner): 26 / 10 Number of members: 3 Number of members: 111 Web: www.club-alpbach-salzburg.org

On its second year of establishment Alpbach Club board who are full of enthusiasm, new ideas and monthly “Stammti- Georgia successfully continues the promotion of dedication. sche” in Salzburg were the European Forum Alpbach in Georgian youth. highlighted with our For this purpose it actively uses social media net- annual (much beloved) works, youth activities, forums, Christmas party and workshops or any other youth our first ever skiing events as a platform to spread the weekend. In June we word and motivate people to par- met our 16 brand-new ticipate. We are proud scholarship holders for that more and more people in the first time and we Georgia know about the Forum were more than impres- and get motivated to participate. sed by them - finally being able to get faces One of the major highlights of to their outstanding the year was establishing relations CVs and motivational with the International Black Sea letters. University, which is a very good The club year of 2017/18 for the Club Alpbach partner to the Club and considers Salzburg (CAS) was marked by many new exciting Last but not least we are looking forward to our joint activities in the future. The challenges, as a team of our club formed the Stan- fireside talks with renowned guests, the SalzNieder cooperation envisaged the par- ding Committee (SC) for the European Forum party (together with Club Lower Austria) and our ticipation of the University stu- Alpbach 2018. Lead by Tobias Neugebauer the SC annual scholarship ceremony and many other fun dents and fellows to the Forum team managed to introduce thrilling new topics to Alpbach activities, such as the amazing sunrise hike from next year. this year’s forum. With their project “Give Alpbach onto Gratlspitz. a Face” they found a way to strengthen the invol- Another highlight of the year was vement of the local people establishing contacts with the of Alpbach to the Forum. Youth Department of the Mi- Furthermore, projects like nistry of Education of Georgia, “My Europe” and the diver- which is a core state institution in sity study proved to be very youth affairs. Future cooperation interesting tools to get to perspectives have been discussed know the people attending with the Head of the Department the Forum better. which will be followed up by ac- tion plan and implementation Besides this huge task the stage from next year. CAS founded an Adviso- Club Alpbach Georgia is a gro- ry Board, which is made wing, prosperous organization up by outstanding former with motivated young leaders on club board members. Our

14 15 Club Alpbach Kosovo Club Alpbach Niederösterreich

Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] President: Labinot Bajgora President: Franz Zöchbauer Board Members: Fatos Zeqiri, Engjell Rexhepi, Dorentina Board Members: Ch. Macho, J. Grames, B. Bonelli, J.Busch, Fetahaj, Fjolla Azemi, Taulant Hodaj S. Sladek, S. Hörmann, G. Klöckler, Country: Kosovo A. Bredl, A. Brandstätter, M. Groiss City: Prishtina Country: Austria Founding Year: 2011 City: Niederösterreich Scholarships (total/returner): 5 / 2 Founding Year: 2001 Number of members: 13 Scholarships (total/returner): 24 / 8 Website: www.clubalpbachsweden.org Number of members: 250 Web: www.club-alpbach.at

Last year was characterized by elections and rebuil- ding a new energetic board which would be active through the years and come up with innovative ideas for fundraising. In addition, two scholars from Kosovo were selected by Austrian Develop- ment Agency.

We are happy that we were able to provide 19 first- events. These included dicussions with successful time scholarship holders with the opportunity to people from the economy and politics. Our format participate in the European Forum Alpbach 2017. reMEMEBER strives to strenghten the inter-gene- To quote one of them: „Alpbach 2017: Thx, it was rational connection of our scholarshipholders by a blast.“ However, we did not only send scholars- inviting alumnis of former years as hosts for infor- hipholders but also hosted a bunch of fireside-talks mal talks. Our workshop format LevelUp was held with speakers from various backgrounds. These in cooporation with ZARA (Civil Courage and included for example media consultant of the Isla- Anti-Racism Work) to learn about the counter- mische Glaubensgemeinschaft in Österreich Carla measures on hatespeach in social media. During a Amina Baghajati and chairman of Initiative mus- financing workshop we thought about our personal limischer ÖsterreicherInnen Tarafa Baghajati; Eu- financial future and for the first time, we organized ropean Commissioner Health Vytenis Andriukaitis a ski week-end, which was a blast. We are really and Federal Minister for Health and Women Pa- looking forward to the upcoming European Forum mela Rendi-Wagner; as well as Federal Minister for Alpbach 2018! Europe, Integration, and Foreign Affairs Sebastian Kurz. These fireside talks provided opportunities to ask questions and have discussions with people who are normally hard to reach. Using the energy of a great Forum in 2017 we started the following club year with a strategic meeting where we planned the upcoming year and some of the scholarshipholders joined the active club team. During the year we could uphold the values of critical discourse and team spirit through a comprehensive selection of

16 17 Initiative Group Alpbach Club Alpbach Oberösterreich

Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] President: Dmytro Voiuta President: Katharina Fernández-Metzbauer Vice President: Ganna Dudinska Vice Presidents: Benedikt Polzer Board Members: Olena Drost Board Members: Nora Katona, Lisa Panhuber, Alfred CLUB Beisskammer, Elvira Kinzner Country: Ukraine Country: Austria ALPBACH City: Kyiv City: OBERÖSTERREICH Founding Year: 2012 Founding Year: 2002 Scholarships (total/returner): 13 / 6 Scholarships (total/returner): 24 / 13 Number of members: 12 Number of members: 120 Web: www.alpbach-ooe.org

The working year 2017/18 started with a highlight of 11 high potential scholarship-holders! Club for the Club Alpbach : after the Ge- Alpbach Upper Austria continues the successful neral assembly, where Jürgen Stolzlechner left the journey of 10 regular and 1 diversity (refugee) board due to his new adventures in , we scholarship, which shows our efforts in living the welcomed Fredi Beisskammer and Elvira Kinzner, Alpbach-Spirit of bringing people from different two highly motivated and experienced Club Alp- backgrounds together. bach Upper Austria members to the board. Last year‘s highlight was the celebration of 15 years of We also implemented a gender-policy within the existence of Club Alpbach Upper Austria, celebra- Club for intern and extern communication and ted in Linz with EFA-president Franz Fischler, key- awareness raising. As an active member of the 1. Presentations of the scholarships from the Euro- 3. The VI-th Scholarship Program for the inter- note-speaker Ulrike Guérot and loads of members, FAN, we also participate in conferences and mee- pean Forum Alpbach. nally displaced persons from Eastern Ukraine and supporters and friends of the Club. The topic of tings. In preperation of Forum Alpbach 2018 we Crimea. the celebration was „Europe-Youth-Identity“ and are also proud to present our new corporate identi- we managed to give a clear and loud statement of ty, which is best shown in our new logo and reflects the importance of associations like Club Alpbach our commitement and the active connection to Upper Austria to strenghten the European Idea EFA and FAN. among young People.

Numerous events followed throughout the year in Linz and Vienna, e.g. Get-Togethers for members and friends; guided visit to the Albertina-Mu- seum in Vienna; relay-participation in the Linz Marathon; three Information Events for students interested in obtaining a scholarship, guided tour 2. Presentations of the scholarships from the NGO 4. III International HR Forum for students and and discussion at Austrian public television with Kyiv Initiative Group Alpbach young professionals with the Austrian business in ORF-anchorman Tarek Leitner etc. Besides, the Ukraine. most important accomplishment is the finding Club Alpbach

Contact: [email protected] President: Chrysa Kazakou Vice President: Argiro Mizithra Board Members: Selina Stauber, Michael Amann Country: Greece Founding Year: 2015 Scholarships (total/returner): 1 / 1 Number of members: 10

18 19 Club Alpbach Sweden Club Alpbach Trentino

Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] President: Emma Engman President: Francesca Valentini Vice President: Georg Präauer Vice President: Fabio Parola Board Members: Gustaf Andersson, Lisa Plattner Board Members: Giulia Giuliani, Guia Bianchi, Verdiana Fronza, Gian Marco Franceschini, Giovanni Palla, Stefano Brunello Country: Sweden Country: City: Stockholm City: Trento Founding Year: 2016 Founding Year: 2013 Scholarships (total/returner): 8 / 3 Scholarships (total/returner): 15 / 5 Number of members: 4 Number of members: 20 Website: www.clubalpbachsweden.org Web: www.clubalpbachtn.it

During Club Alpbach Sweden’s second year, we and invited all Nordic scholarship holders to en- During the academic year have integrated our learning experiences and fo- courage collaboration in the Nordics. We are plea- 2017/2018 Club Alpbach Trentino cused on simplifying our work to continuously sed to have a good relationship with the Austrian engaged in the organization of many develop our Club. Some of our previous board Embassy in Sweden and the Swedish Chamber of different events in its region. In Oc- members moved on to new engagements, which Commerce in Austria and we look forward to con- tober 2017 the Club arranged a ci- led to the election of a new board. Emma, Georg tinuing our collaboration. neforum on the topic “Conflict 2.0” and Gustaf continued for a second year, and Lisa, focusing on the new forms of con- our previous Club Advisor, was elected to join the During EFA 2017 we hosted two Fireside Talks. flict, violence and threats to public board. Following this, we conducted a workshop The first addressed foreign policy with US Speci- security with the screen of a series of focusing on the Club’s values and strategic goals. al Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, Kurt movies and documentaries followed Volker, and the second sustainability and transfor- by a debate with professors and ex- mative change with Alan AtKisson, internationally perts. In November we invited Raf- known author and senior advisor. A lot of good faele Alberto Ventura to speak about work has been done this past year and we very his book “Teoria della Classe Disa- much look forwards to continue working with our giata“; in the same period the Club club and spreading the Spirit of Alpbach in Swe- was a partner in the organization of Market with the support of the Italian Represen- den! the EUPHUR conference on sustainable develop- tation of the European Commission, with a focus ment in Merano. in January 2018 we invited four on its opportunities and the threats related to it. In historians and political scientist to discuss about May it intervened as partner in the organization of the rise of the 5-star movement in Italy. In March the „Siamo Europa“ festival on the EU- we held the Club hosted a conference on Single Digital two conferences and two fireside talks. Lastly, in June the Club helped coordinating the so-called „ExPat 33“ project of the Pro- vince of Trento - with the aim of crea- ting a network of expats from Trentino to provide ideas and solution to prob- lems to the local administration.

We participated in the FAN Conference and had workshops with Thomas Hutle from Club Vorar- lberg. We also recently held a Meet&Greet with this year’s first-timers to introduce EFA and FAN

20 21 Club Alpbach Montenegro Club Alpbach

Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] President: Vanja Dabižinović President: Helena Blažinčić Board Members: Sanja Bulatović, Ana Mijanović, Andrija Club Alpbach Montenegro Vice President: Petar Luka Barišić Đuranović, Damir Novalić Board Members: Jasmina Đapo

Country: Montenegro Country: Croatia City: City: Founding Year: 2007 Founding Year: 2019 Scholarships (total/returner): - / - Scholarships (total/returner): 9 / 4 Number of members: 13 Number of members: 60 Website: www.clubalpbach.me Web: www.kah.hr

The period so far went by in consolidation of the Year of 2018 was very special year for Club Alp- members of the CLub (gathering the members bach Croatia. After 3 years of inactivity within the around the idea of the Club, FAN and the Forum), network, new board members took over the pre- promotional activities regarding the Forum and the sidency and revived the successful work previous Club, acquiring donations and expanding the con- generations did in the past years. Even though the tact reach within Montenegro (networking). Club is active for merely 5 months, strong efforts were invested in promoting the EFA spirit among citizens of Croatia. We are proud that we have 9 scholarship holders to represent our country on this years Forum. The Club has met the Austrian ambassador to Croatia and president of the Austi- IG Alpbach Romania (IGAR) an Cultural Forum back in April to strenghten the connections between our organizations and sup- Contact: [email protected] port each other in future activities. Despite the li- climate change policies, policy interactions and President: Olivia Dejeu mited resources, the Club managed to support and international cooperation in the field of climate Vice President: Oana Scutea co-organize an interactive workshop in July 2018 technology and innovation. Board Members: Florian Kasslatter, Anca Hociota, titled „Long term energy and climate planning in Mihairla Corsatea Southeast Europe“ as part of the EU-funded (Ho- Country: Romania rizon 2020) CARISMA project. We are proud to City: tell we have partnered with Starfish Energy Berlin Founding Year: 2013 as main organizers, and Uni Graz and Joanneum Scholarships (total/returner): - / - Research Institute in this challenging journey. The Number of members: 12 workshop connected researchers, experts and in- dividuals from the region interested in the social, economic and environmental impacts of mitigati- IG Alpbach Albania on options, the effectiveness of EU and national

Contact: [email protected] President: Anteo Papa Vice President: Blerina Shkurti Board Members: Miada Shpuza, Denisa Kosta, Brunilda Noka, Edison Frangu Country: Albania City: Founding Year: 2013 Scholarships (total/returner): - / - Number of members: 50

22 23 Club Alpbach Club Alpbach Tirol

Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] President: Kilian Dorner President: Veronica Rungger Vice President: Samuel Barwart Vice Presidents: Thomas Wieser, Matthias Schwaiger Board Members: Max-Benjamin Ellensohn, Barbara Board Members: Florian Heiß, Alexander Pali Metzler, Nicholas Perpmer, Sara Soltani Country: Austria Country: Austria City: Schwarzenberg City: Innsbruck Founding Year: 2009 Founding Year: 1998 Scholarships (total/returner): 26 / 14 Scholarships (total/returner): 16 / 2 Number of members: 88 Number of members: 100 Website: www.club-alpbach-vorarlberg.at Web: www.clubirol.or.at

Last year has been yet another exciting year for and vision, allowing us to finance 12 scholarship The period of 2017/18 was truly special for the We also hosted several events and fireside talks, Club Alpbach Vorarlberg (CAV). After redesig- holders by ourselves. Overall, this year has been Club Alpbach Tirol (CAT). One of the greatest featuring people such as Mr. Markus Langes-Swa- ning our ‘corporate’ identity, re-editing our vision yet another great year in the history of the club, in achievements was the selection of highly-moti- rovski (Managing Director of Swarovski KG) and and mission as a steadily growing club - together which we learned a lot and we already look forward vated scholarship holders, who passionately took Mr. Satjiv Chahil (Silicon Valley Innovator), Ms. with a team of members - and renewing our sta- to facing next year’s challenges. part in 2017’s European Forum Alpbach (EFA). Beate Meinl-Reisinger (current Club Chairperson tutes and other matters (e.g. of NEOS) and Mr. Wolfgang criteria for scholarships etc.), Sobotka (former Austrian Mi- we redesigned our website and nister of the Interior). Needless aim at improving club-inter- to say, the discussions were nal communications across enticing. After the EFA, CAT different generations of club organized a movie screening members. Most importantly, and raised awareness on hate however, we managed to get crimes against Hungarian a great group of scholarship Romnija and Roma. Further- holders for the EFA18. Besi- more, we met our friends from des, we hosted a major public Club Alpbach Südtirol/Alto event in Vorarlberg together Adige (CASA) for our win- with the Chamber of Com- terly sledding tradition. The merce Vorarlberg (WKV) and most impactful event of 2018 plan to host another, at which definitely was our 20th Club Franz Fischler will be our Anniversary and the Spring guest. The objective of these Conference 2018, which we events is to bring the Spirit hosted in celebration thereof. of Alpbach to Vorarlberg, to For three days we welcomed offer our sponsors a platform our Forum Alpbach Network in the region and to increase (FAN) friends from all over brand awareness of the club. Europe in Innsbruck. We were Simultaneously, we have a proud to show them the heart CAV ambassador program of the State of Tyrol, inclu- for certain cities to promote ding a tour up the Nordkette networking throughout the mountain range. The producti- year and we hosted a number ve conference was held at the of events together with active Werkstätte Wattens Creative members (e.g. CAV-Freitag, Center and featured a visit Welcoming, Homecoming, from Mr. Franz Fischler. Here’s etc.). Ultimately, we managed to another 20 years of great co- to find further new sponsors, operation and work within our which support our mission Club and within the FAN!

24 25 Club Alpbach Senza Confini Club Alpbach

Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] President: Vesna Kuralt President: Gregor Braun Vice President: Anja Habuš, Edita Turičnik Vice Presidents: Sebastian Meusel, Livio Hoch Board Members: Eva Bönisch, Bettina Keimel, Sandra Kügele, Board Members: Selina Stauber, Michael Amann Alina Lidermuth, Michela Morazzini, Maša Ocvirk, Martin Smoliner Country: Austria Country: Liechtenstein City: City: Vaduz Founding Year: 2003 Founding Year: 2012 Scholarships (total/returner): 26 / 8 Scholarships (total/returner): 8 / 3 Number of members: 300 Number of members: 12 Web: www.senza-confini.com Web: www.clubalpbach.li

As the name suggests Club Alpbach Senza Con- Forum and Center for European Perspective. Af- The past year was charaterized by an increasing ef- fantastic mountain village. A lot of cooperation ac- fini (CASC) is not only Austrian. We extend to ter that we continued our activities with a series fort to find sponsors to reach the self-set aim to tivities were being hold with Foraus, a think-tank the whole Alpe-Adria region covering Carinthia, of events celebrating our 15th anniversary, starting double the amount of scholarship holders. The am- from Switzerland. Other activities were get-to- Northern Italy and Slovenia. The past year has with an event in Trieste in cooperation with Club bitious aim for us as one of the smallest clubs in the gethers at the general assembly and at the Universi- been extremely exciting for CASC as it marks the Alpbach Trentino called “Borders of Europe – bet- Alpbach community has been reach by enabling 5 ty of Liechtenstein with the members. Club’s 15th year. Our main goal in 2018 has been ween geography and culture” and an alumni event young students to broaden their horizons in this improving the visibility of EFA and CASC in our in Velden am Wörthersee in cooperation with region and we were successful in establishing new Kärntner Wirtschaftsförderungsverein (KWF). partnerships, hosting various events, and bringing The series will end with an Alpe-Adria Reception more scholarship holders to EFA 2018. Through during EFA and a panel discussion at the Young the year CASC was very active in organizing activi- Bled Strategic Forum in September. ties in the heart of the region. In the fall we hosted the FAN Fall Conference, where we also organized a roundtable on cyber security with Bled Strategic IG Armenia Contact: [email protected] President: Kristina Hakobyan Vice Presidents: Armine Bagiyan Board Members: Yeghishe Sargsyan, Anush Mkrtchyan, Marine Sargsyan Country: Armenia City: Founding Year: 2011 Scholarships (total/returner): 2 / 0 Number of members: 7

We were able to send two scholarship holders this year. We have not been very active this year as most of our members moved abroad.

26 27 Club Alpbach Club Alpbach Südtirol Alto Adige

Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] President: Michael Ibesich President: Felix Obermair Vice President: Jutta Grabenhofer Vice President: Anna von Hepperger Board Members: Andreas Lackier, Anna Bauer, Philipp Ei- Board Members: Marina Demetz, Andreas Langes, Anna Pohl, singerich, Paul Pogats, Rene Neuberger Julia Sandrini, Luis Widmann, Anna Wolf Country: Austria Country: Italy City: Eisenstadt City: Bolzano/Bozen Founding Year: 2006 Founding Year: 2005 Scholarships (total/returner): 16 / 8 Scholarships (total/returner): 19 / 4 Number of members: 100 Number of members: 80 Web: www.alpbach-burgenland.at Web: www.alpbach.bz.it

2017/18 was a busy year for Club Alpbach Burgen- EFA 2017 was a very inspiring and busy event for After the forum, many of them became active land. According to „back to the roots“ we offered Club Alpbach Südtirol Alto Adige (CASA). In members of our club. Our autumn program in- several activities and events in Burgenland - getting Alpbach, our club organized three CASA_picnics cluded two guided city tours in South Tyrol: one to know the people, the nature and the knowledge [on wine marketing, women’s rights in Islam, and through Brixen’s historical centre, and the second base in our region. With more applicants for our modern mountaineering], the Career Lounge for one through Bozen’s new towns. In early 2018, Scholarships then ever before, we are certain, that Club Alpbach Burgenland has a great standing in our region and is of enormous value to the youngs- ters of Burgenland.

young scholarship holders [in cooperation with at our annual general assembly, a new board was AIT] and a handful of smaller events. We were very elected. Felix Obermair took over the presidential lucky to have an active and engaged group of 14 duties from Julia Sandrini. Also, four scholarship scholarship holders. holders from 2017 have become part of the board. At around Easter, CASA organized a literary walk near Bozen.

At the same time, students and young workers had already applied for an Alpbach scholarship through our website. Until late April, the scholarship hol- ders for EFA 2018 were selected by our external commission of experts. In July 2018, the scho- larship award ceremony, as well as a preliminary workshop for EFA participants, took place in Bo- zen. Building on 2018’s Tyrol Days topic, natural hazard management, we also organized a guided field trip to Prags valley, in order to understand the causes and effects of natural disasters in the alpine regions.

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Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] President: Grace Blakeley President: Alma Mujanović Vice President: Josef Huber Board Members: Emina Džaferagić, Timur Hadžić, Ada Sul- Board Members: Phil Harnik, Lukas Fiala, Flora Böwing, tanović, Samir Beharić, Alen Kerić, Alma Valentin Wiesner Muratović Country: Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina City: London City: Sarajevo Founding Year: 2013 Founding Year: 2007 Scholarships (total/returner): 13 / 3 Scholarships (total/returner): 3 / 1 Number of members: 50 Number of members: 14 Web: www.clubalpbachlondon.eu Web: www.igas.ba

The past year was marked by a challenging but The initiative group Alpbach in Sarajevo (IGAS) student‘s results when it comes to The lecture was successful fundraising operation for Club Alpbach was organized by Beyond Forum Alpbach: Sarajevo held by Internet influencers, psychologists and so- London, and we‘ve managed to increase our bud- World Cafe on the topic of „Anti-social network“, ciologists, as well as employees in media and mar- get significantly to be able to subsidise our scho- in April 2018. The ninth meeting of members of keting companies. larship holders even more during their stay. With IGAS, students, young and eminent guest lectu- an entirely new board (but one), we were in need rers. The theme of this year‘s Cafe is social networ- of an orientation phase, but managed to host a king as one of the highest quality phenomena that few excellent events, including two at the Austri- is present and actively used, whether it‘s a business, an Ambassador‘s Residence. We also introduced sports or social segment of life. Numerous studies a new event format ‚Arts in Residence‘, for which point to the negative effects of social networks, we invited two performance artists to give us their such as alignment, dependence, psychological take on the burning question of ‚What unites us‘ consequences, and a recent survey in America has as Europeans. We are very excited to introduce out shown that the use of these networks affects the scholarship holders to the charms of the EFA, and are looking forward to grow bigger and better in the years to come. Godspeed.

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Contact: [email protected] FAN members of the President: Bruno Caria Vice President: Barbara Holzer-Bodson EFA Scientific Advisory Board Board Members: Daniel Spichtinger, Cornelia Kenda, Mickaël Bianchin, Gersende Charpentier Country: Belgium The Scientific Advisory Board is one of the central bodies of the European Forum Alpbach with regards City: Brussels to content programming: It proposes the general themes for the annual main event, prepares the Seminar Founding Year: 2016 week and provides the Council and the Steering Committee with advice and recommendations regarding Scholarships (total/returner): 4 / 1 the programme content. The Scientific Advisory Board consists of 35 renowned scientists and eminent re- Number of members: 468 presentatives of the cultural sector, who choose one chairperson from among themselves. Currently, Caspar Web: www.clubalpbachbrussels.com Einem holds this position.

Club Alpbach Brussels (CAB) is a network of the We aim at bringing Alpbach to Brussels by hos- The Forum Alpbach Network is represented in the Scientific Advisory Board to shape the programme of European Forum Alpbach community in the capital ting events that foster critical discourse, interdis- EFA from a young perspective. of Europe. It provides a meeting place and plat- ciplinary knowledge and - not least - friendships. form for students, young professionals and leading The FAN delegates to the scientific advisory board for 2017/18 were Lisa Sonnberger, José Magnaye, Ben- figures in the arts, science, politics and business. In the reporting period, our guest list included jamin Monsorno and Raphael Wurm. This strong presence ensures that one FAN member is present in Lukas Mandl, Elisabeth Kornfeind, Martin Speer, each of the subgroups that work on designing the seminar week each year. Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm and Franz Fischler. We believe that our experiences as participants and Club representatives working closely with scholarship holders is essential for seminars that work in the setting of Alpbach and will continue to work for innovati- We also bring Brussels to Al- on during this important part of the European Forum Alpbach. Additionally, the scientific advisory board pbach by granting scholars- is concerned with suggesting a general topic that sets the background for the Forum. hips to excellent students and young professionals based in Belgium. We put particular emphasis on selecting appli- Lisa Sonnberger José Magnaye cants from under-represen- ted countries at the Forum. Member of the Member of the Scientific Advisory Board Scientific Advisory Board

Feel free to follow us on www.clubalpbachbrussels. com and don’t forget to drop us a line when in Brussels! Benjamin Monsorno Raphael Wurm Member of the Member of the Scientific Advisory Board Scientific Advisory Board

32 33 FAN members of the FAN members of the EFA Advisory Boards EFA Advisory Boards

Sonja Barnreiter The advisory committees are responsible for programming the annual European Forum Alpbach. The com- mittees consist of scientists and practitioners as well as representatives of the European Forum Alpbach. Legal Symposium The Forum Alpbach Network is represented in the advisory committees to shape the programme of EFA from a young perspective! Christoph Schmidinger Financial Market

Amin El-Heliebi Health Symposium As a member of the scientific advisory board of the policy sympo- siom, I was invovled in shaping this year‘s programme as well as in Johannes Paar selecting young speakers for the different sessions. Besides the meeting in the run-up of the Forum, I had many discussions with the EFA office, Built Environment and Annamaria was always open to new ideas how to shape the programme and enhance the participation of young speakers at the panels. I am very pleased that this year we have two young experts on the plenary session ‚New Perspectives on EU enlargement‘ who will discuss this pres- Almina Bešić sing issue with the president of Austria as well the presidents from Kosovo, and Slovenia. Policy Symposium Almina Bešić, FAN Advisory Board Member Martin Kubas Tyrol Day

Wolfgang Eichert Economic Symposium Andreas Eisendle Tyrol Day

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As an ambassador for the European Forum Alpbach based in Ethi- opia from 2015 up to present and participant in 2015 and 2016. it was a big deal to spread the experience i got from Alpbach, specially to be inspiration for many young women who are seeking to find a educational opportunity was so moving and made me to put more effort to help them apply and follow up if there was any challenge through the application process. I was confidentially promoting the forum from my experience i gained. The first thing i did was telling about my adventures educational and academic knowledge earned at alpbach and talking about the seminars and other topics i have involved was so much moving for most of my collogues and others who have reached me to apply through my connection. Sending information‘s th- rough texts specially for the ones who doesn‘t have internet access was major way of telling people in my country. As this opportunity is a major big deal for me, so as i wish this to be inspiring for others in my home town, as i mentioned before alpbach has been my inspi- ration and has encouraged me to continue my study and more. I have tried to mention this to my students and others at the school which they promised they will create a means to help the student to apply, As an ambassador it was and is true pleasure talking about my experience at alpbach and introducing to others who are seeking to find educational opportunity was important and i will keep promoting it in the future as well. I was so much proud how the European forum kept the culture of the forum through all this years, which I personally support and admire the European Fo- rum Alpbach for this great achievement, again I want to thank you for giving 31 Ambassadors in 23 regions worldwide me this opportunity, hope I will come back with my colleagues with projects that i can share in the forum and I hope the European Form Alpbach will support and encourage us. The Ambassador Program is going strong into its fourth year with a growing number of applications and Ambassadors as well as regions covered. Martha Haile, FAN Ambassador Ethiopia It fostered the successful foundation of Club Alpbach Sweden with many more promising Clubs on the horizon.

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