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European Forum Alpbach 2016 New Enlightenment | August 17 to September 2, 2016

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Live Stream: www.alpbach.org Our web stream, provided by the Austrian Lotteries, will broadcast debates from the Congress Centre Alpbach from 17 August 2016 onwards online at www.alpbach.org.

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Press Centre at the Congress Centre Alpbach During the Forum, the Press Centre will be located in the Congress Centre Alpbach (Alpbach 246, 6236 Alpbach). The press area will be open daily from 17 August from 9am until the close of the day’s events.

About the European Forum Alpbach First held in 1945, the European Forum Alpbach was the first political and intellectual event to take place in a German-speaking country. Today it is one of the leading interdisciplinary platforms for dialogue in the academia, politics, economics and culture in Europe. Through its activities and events, the European Forum Alpbach seeks to promote a democratic society equipped to meet future challenges.

Cooperation network with international partner organisations Alongside our principal partners BMW, Fabasoft, the Province of Tyrol, Austrian Lotteries and Swarowski, and co-promoters such as the Austrian Institute of Technology and Radio Ö1, the European Forum Alpbach is supported by over 100 other partner organisations. These include international academic partners such as the French École Nationale d’Administration, University in Paris, the University of Cambridge, the Falling Walls Conference, the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and the Woodrow Wilson International Center.

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DATES 2016

Symposia

August 21–23 Health Symposium www.alpbach.org/med August 24 Higher Education Symposium www.alpbach.org/edu August 25–27 Technology Symposium www.alpbach.org/tec August 28–30 Legal Symposium www.alpbach.org/law August 28–30 Political Symposium www.alpbach.org/pol August 30–September 1 Economic Symposium www.alpbach.org/ecn September 1–2 Financial Market Symposium www.alpbach.org/fin September 1–2 Built Environment Symposium www.alpbach.org/blt

Seminar Week and Alpbach Campus Courses

August 17–24 Seminar Week Professional Programme on Facilitation and Participatory August 17–20 Leadership August 17–22 Alpbach Summer School on Entrepreneurship August 17–22 Professional Programme on European Health Care and Social Systems in Transitions August 26–28 Professional Programme on EU Decision-Making and Negotiation August 27–29 Professional Programme on Strategies of Influence August 17–September 2 Alpbach Advanced Course on European Integration

Tyrol Days

August 20–21 Tyrol Days/Opening Ceremony Congress Center Alpbach

Culture

August 17–September 2 Music, Film, Photography, Cabaret, Literature

Special Programme

August 24 Alpbach Open Space August 25 Falling Walls Lab Austria August 26 Ö1 Children’s University & Junior Alpbach August 25–26 Innovation Marathon August 27 Speakers’ Night August 28–30 Alpbach in Motion September 1 Science Slam

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Making the New Tangible

The crises in the , the global movement of migrants and digitalisation are the themes at the heart of the European Forum Alpbach 2016. Under the general heading of “New Enlightenment”, national and international speakers from academia, politics, economics, culture and civil society will open up constructive approaches for the 21st century.

From 17 August to 2 September, 5,000 people from academia, politics, economics and culture, including 700 young scholarship holders, will enter uncharted waters at the European Forum Alpbach. Events kick off with the Seminar Week, followed by one to three-day symposia on health care, education, technology, law, politics, the economy, the financial market and the built environment. Over 200 events, from breakout sessions to open space debates to plenary discussions, enable participants to get on the trail of a “New Enlightenment”, turning the village in the Tyrolean mountains into Europe’s summer dialogue capital. With the new conference rooms in the expanded Congress Centre Alpbach, visitors to the Forum will literally find themselves on new ground and will be able to take advantage some of Europe’s most cutting-edge digital acoustics.

On the Trail of a “New Enlightenment” The European Union is facing one endurance test after another. “The overemphasis on national interests is just one indication of many that history does not change for the better on its own. It requires energetic people who choose not to take a step back into national isolation but to seek out new, constructive paths”, explains Franz Fischler, president of the European Forum Alpbach. “In many areas of society we can observe the falling away of old certainties and the growth of scepticism. We therefore invite those explorers to Alpbach who will counter this doubt with bold concepts. We want to learn from their fresh ideas”, says Franz Fischler.

Programme focus: The Future Role of Europe in the World Instability in the Middle East and its far-reaching consequences present the European Union and its members with a series of challenges. The Political Symposium turns its attention to Europe’s foreign relations, first and foremost the EU’s new foreign and security policy strategy, which is currently being developed by Federica Mogherini, the EU High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Key negotiators, among them special advisor Nathalie Tocci and Mogherini’s head of cabinet, Stefano Manservisi, present this strategic reorientation in Alpbach. High-ranking diplomats such as Robert Cooper from the UK and Walter Stevens, Chair of the EU’s Political and Security Committee, examine the implications. Heads of renowned European think tanks such as Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, Heather Grabbe from the Open Society European Policy Institute and Jan Techau, director of Carnegie Europa, put this future foreign policy strategy’s potential under the microscope.

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In order to meet local challenges and support the efforts of Austrian communities to integrate refugees, the European Forum Alpbach is organising what is now the fifth network meeting for mayors. 100 community leaders from across Austria will arrive in Alpbach to swap their experiences and know-how on integrating asylum seekers.

Programme focus: The World in Bits and Bytes

Our society is caught between blind faith in technology and resistance to progress, between technological possibilities and how they are interpreted. Orientation based on the latest findings is provided here by a range of experts and critics: Leory Hood, the multi-award winning immunologist and holder of the American National Medal of Science gives an outlook on a health system in which bits and bytes now fuse with DNA and proteins. The Higher Education Symposium is opened by Alan I. Leshner, former CEO of the renowned US journal Science. Hungarian big data analyst Albert- László Barabási and the American Ray Dorsey, Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Centre, present their work at the Technology Symposium on a care app being developed with Apple to research Parkinson’s disease. Cesar Hidalgo, a complexity researcher and director of the MIT Media Lab, demonstrates at the Economic Symposium why classical methods in economic research have long become obsolete. Günther Oettinger (DE), EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, explains how he hopes to strengthen digital entrepreneurship in Europe. At the Financial Market Symposium, Jutta Steiner, a leading developer of bitcoin software, describes why this technology has the potential to radically alter world of finance, while Aquiles Almansi, a financial sector specialist at the World Bank, presents new approaches in cyber security.

Creative Thinking: Our Common Mission “Breaking open fixed categories is in the DNA of the European Forum Alpbach. The Alpbach Symposia are open spaces at which the curious, the explorers from all areas of society can raise and discuss ideas and potential solutions”, says Philippe Narval, Managing Director of the European Forum Alpbach. How can we translate the achievements of the Enlightenment into new times? What are the intellectual tools with the potential to develop into the big ideas of the 21st century?

Hundreds of pioneers and discoverers from academia, economics, politics, culture and civil society will present their projects and initiatives in Alpbach: as part of the Alpbach-Laxenburg Group, American economist Jeffrey D. Sachs and former director of the World Trade Organisation Pascal Lamy meet the young entrepreneurs of the Global Impact Hub and join them in pushing forward the implementation of the “Sustainable Development Goals”; the euro is discussed from a range of different viewpoints, including that of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, German

Euro expert Daniela Schwarzer and economist and politician Bernd Lucke; the Italian professor of economics, Mariana Mazzucato, from the University of Sussex, who redefined the role of the state in her polemic “The Entrepreneurial State”, gives a special lecture; Toke Moeller from

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Denmark, who travels the world as an expert on participation, leads the Professional Programme on Facilitation and Participatory Leadership in Alpbach; David Rejeski from the Wilson Center in Washington discusses the social consequences of technological progress; Swedish social entrepreneur Ernest Radal shows how, using digital tools, refugees are integrated into the information society; Philippe Fargues, a French expert on migration and director of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute in Florence, analyses global migration movements; the British journalist Paul Mason, who postulated the end of neoliberalism in his book “PostCapitalism”, puts his thesis up for discussion; Andrew Keen, a British-American entrepreneur and author, questions the Internet’s promise of salvation; and the Indian writer Pankaj Mishra calls for a global perspective.

Culture on a ‘House Visit’ to Alpbach The cultural programme offers interventions and performances from the fields of film, photography, cabaret, literature and music. Creative artists such as the Swiss author Lukas Bärfuss and the Chicago-based artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg lend creative momentum to the opening of the Alpbach Symposia. The multi-award winning German collective Rimini Protokoll, who are anything but a traditional theatre company, perform in Alpbach from August 22 to 24. This will be the first time that the group centred around Stefan Kaegi has staged its project “House Visit Europe” in a mountain village. They will be performing in private living rooms and apartments in order to connect the personal biographies of the people of Alpbach to the political mechanisms of Europe.

Below you can find a selection of international guests of this year’s forum: A list of all our guests including their vita can be found on www.alpbach.org/whoiswho

Seminar Week, August 17 to 24 Andreas Pečar (DE), Professor of Early Modern European History, Martin-Luther-University, Halle; Kwesi Aning (GH), Director, Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research, KAIPTC - Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Accra; Rita Colwell (US), Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland; Pierre Vimont (FR), Senior Associate, Carnegie Europe; Former Executive Secretary-General, EEAS - European External Action Service,

Tyrol Days/Opening Ceremony of the Congress CenterAlpbach, August 20 to 21 Jean-Claude Juncker (LU), President, European Commission; Pankaj Mishra (IN), Author of Literary and Political Essays

Health Symposium, August 21 to 23 Leroy Hood (US), President and Co-Founder, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle; Teppo Järvinen (UK), Clinical Professor, University of Helsinki

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Higher Education Symposium, August 24 Alan I. Leshner (CA), Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.;Mariana Mazzucato (IT), RM Philips Professor, Economics of Innovation, SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Brighton

Technology Symposium, August 25 to 27 Albert-László Barabási (HU), Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science; Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University, Boston, MA; Ray Dorsey (US), David M. Levy Professor of Neurology and Director, Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester Medical Center; Otmar D. Wiestler (DE), President, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Berlin; Detlef Günther (DE), Professor for Trace Element and Micro Analysis, Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry and Vice President Research and Corporate Relations, ETH - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich

Legal Symposium, August 28 to 30 Koen Lenaerts (BE), President, Court of Justice of the European Union; John-Dylan Haynes (GB), Professor for Theory and Analysis of Large-Scale Brain Signals and Research Group Leader, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin; Thomas Fischer (DE), Presiding Judge, Federal Court of Justice of Germany; Michael O'Flaherty (IE), Director, FRA - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

Political Symposium, August 28 to 30 Michael Roth (DE), German Minister of State for Europe; Sandro Gozi (IT), Italian State Secretary for European Affairs; Pawlo Klimkin (UKR), Urkainian Minister of Foreign Affairs; Miroslav Lajcak (SVK), Slovakian Foreign Minister; Rauf Engin Soysal (TUR), Turkish Undersecretary of the Ministry for European Union Affairs; Natalie Tocci (IT), Special Advisor to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; Walter Stevens (BE), Ambassador; Head, PSC - Political and Security Committee, Brussels; Heather Grabbe (GB), Director, Open Society European Policy Institute, Brussels; Jan Techau (DE), Director, Carnegie Europe, Brussels; Pascal Lamy (FR), Former Director General, WTO - World Trade Organization; Honorary President, Notre Europe - Jacques Delors Institute, Paris; Jeffrey Sachs (US), Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York; John Keane (AU), Professor of Politics and Director, Sydney Democracy Network, The University of Sydney; Cathryn Clüver (DE/US), Executive Director, The Future of Diplomacy, Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;

Economic Symposium, August 30 to September 1 Günther Oettinger (DE), Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, European Commission, Brussels; Yanis Varoufakis (GR), Economist; Former Greek Finance Minister; Cesar A. Hidalgo (US), Head, Macro Connections Group, Media Lab, MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

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Cambridge, MA; Faculty Associate, Center for International Development, Harvard University, Boston, MA; In-kook Park (KR), President, KFAS - Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, Gangnam-gu Seoul; Jeannine Pilloud (D), Head, SBB Passenger Traffic and Member, Management Board, SBB AG, Bern; Andrew Keen (GB), Author; Executive Director, salonFutureCast, Santa Rosa, CA; Robin Chase (US), Co-Founder and former CEO of Zipcar, Jeffrey P. Owens (UK), Director, Global Tax Policy Center, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Yingtai Lung (TW), Professor, University of Hong Kong, former Minister of Culture, Taiwan

Financial Market Symposium, September 1 to 2 Yanis Varoufakis (GR), Economist; Former Greek Finance Minister; Paul Mason (UK), Journalist and Author of the Book “PostCapitalism“; Bernd Lucke (DE), Economist and Politician; Jutta Steiner (GB), Bitcoin Expert and Founder of Ethcore; Aquiles Almansi (AR), Lead Financial Sector Expert, World Bank; Daniela Schwarzer (DE), Director, Europe Program, GMF - The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin; Holger Schmieding (DE), Chief Economist, Berenberg Bank; Jutta Steiner (DE), Founder of “Ethcore”

Built Environment Symposium, September 1 to 2 Yuri Albert Kyrill Kazepov (AT), professor for International Urban Sociology at the University of Vienna; Hubert Klumpner (CH), professor for Architecture and Urban Design at the ETH Zurich; Markus Miessen (DE), activist architect and author; Saskia Sassen (US), Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Centennial visiting Professor at the London School of Economics

The following members of the Austrian government confirmed their participation:

Wolfgang Brandstetter, Hans Peter Doskozil, Muna Duzdar, Sonja Hammerschmid, Sophie Karmasin, Sebastian Kurz, Jörg Leichtfried, Harald Mahrer, Reinhold Mitterlehner, Sabine Oberhauser, Andrä Rupprechter, Hans Jörg Schelling und Alois Stöger.

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Expanded Congress Centre Alpbach Move along – now there’s even more space for ideas in Alpbach! Work on the expansion continues apace and nothing stands in the way of opening night. The increased capacity makes it possible to offer a more varied programme this year – for example, for the first time, the Legal Symposium will be linked to the Political Symposium. At the opening on Tyrol Day (August 21, 2016), state governors Günther Platter (Tyrol), Arno Kompatscher (South Tyrol) and Ugo Rossi (Trentino) will be joined by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and the Indian author Pankaj Mishra.

The new conference hall is equipped with a digital 3D acoustic system, the best of its kind in Europe, making it possible to simulate the acoustics of the world’s best concert halls. This will show off the playing of cellist Friedrich Kleinhapl (August 26, 2016) to best advantage, not to mention the sound of the 120-strong European Union Youth Orchestra (August 21, 2016).

For now still just a visualisation but from August 17, 2016 fully operational: The new building encompasses 1,200m2 additional conference space, offers room for around 1,000 people and is equipped with the most cutting-edge digital 3D acoustic set-up in Europe. This represents an investment of 10 million Euros (Visualisation: Soonar).

The 120-strong European Union Youth Orchestra will perform in Alpbach on August 21, inaugurating the expanded Congress Centre Alpbach with Beethoven’s European anthem and Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony (photo credit: Peter Adamik).

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Bring your ideas – Alpbach Open Space | August 24 No given agenda, but lots of space for spontaneity and ideas: The “Alpbach IdeaJam“ invites you to share your thoughts about the general heading “New Enlightenment”. Direct feedback and dialogue are the main qualities of this event. At the end of the Seminar Week the Alpbach Open Space provides you an insight into the most dominant debates of the past days.

Falling Walls Lab Austria | August 25 The Falling Walls Lab is a competition for young talents from different fields of academia. Each participant is asked to present his/her work in three minutes. A jury from science and business awards the best participants. The Falling Walls Lab wants to push breakthroughs, develops new ways of scientific communication and connects aspiring innovators and researchers. The winners will be invited to the international final at the Falling Walls Conference in Berlin.

Ö1 Children’s University & Junior Alpbach | August 26 The children’s programme of the Alpbach Technology Forum invites girls and boys aged seven to twelve years to solve the questions of “How?” and “Why?” in science and technology in an entertaining way. They get a chance to experience research hands-on and ask questions freely, thus gaining access to scientific themes in an enticing, surprising and above all comprehensible way.

Innovation Marathon | August 25 – 26 2016 24 hours nonstop of product innovation: 9 real business tasks, 9 teams of students and 24 hours. This are the hard facts of the "Innovation Marathon". How can we make use of knowledge, creativity and enthusiasm within 24 hours?

Speakers' Night | August 27 Every year the Alpbach Alumni Club invites you to the Speakers' Night. For this evening the scholarship holders take the speaker’s desk over and present their own idea of Europe in front of an international audience and a prominent jury.

Alpbach in Motion – The Alpbach Summit of Emerging Leaders | August 28 – 30 The “Alpbach Summit of Emerging Leaders“ brings together 40 young European business leaders, who discuss together new perspectives on the economic and societal future during two intensive and dynamic days in Alpbach.

Science Slam “Time to share. Places for everyone“| September 1st 2016 Sustainable city and regional planning, both in the city and on the countryside, need scientific ideas for the needs of a growing heterogenic population. Scientists under the age of 35 are invited to take part at the Science Slam during the Built Environment Symposium in Alpbach. Within seven minutes each participant presents his/her forward-looking work, a concept out of architecture, city and regional planning or urbanism in a most creative way.

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International Media Academy | August 17 – September 2 Young journalists from all over Europe cover the events across all types of media and by new means of storytelling. Media professionals support their critical work on the ground.

New ways of knowledge transfer – Alpbach Campus Courses How to establish a research idea at the market; how to lead groups and organisations in a cooperative way; how to gain special knowledge in the area of healthcare? Alpbach Campus invites professionals, to deepen their knowledge. The courses and summer schools work with the newest didactical methods, as those are peer learning, mentoring and simulations. Renowned partners will share their knowledge in the inspiring atmosphere of the European Forum Alpbach. More information about application and prices on www.alpbach.org/campus

Professional Programme on Facilitation and Participatory Leadership – Art of Hosting August 17–20 Led by 15 international trainers

Alpbach Summer School on Entrepreneurship August 17–22 In cooperation with I.E.C.T. – Hermann Hauser and Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, University of Cambridge

Professional Programme on European Health Care and Social Systems in Transition August 17–25 In cooperation with IFIC – International Foundation for Integrated Care

Professional Programme on EU Decision-Making and Negotiation August 26–28 In cooperation with ENA – École Nationale d’Administration and Wirtschaftskammer Österreich

Professional Programme on Strategies of Influence August 27 –29 With Joachim Bitterlich (ESCP Europe Paris) and Nicholas Dungan (SciencesPo Paris)

Alpbach University course “European Community Law” August 17– September 2 In cooperation with University of Innsbruck

10 Media contact & accreditation Stefan Kranewitter | +43 1 718 17 11 25 | [email protected] | www.alpbach.org