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Alpbach Moments 2017 European Forum Alpbach Growing Ideas for the Europe of Tomorrow. FINANCIAL MARKET PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMES HEALTH BUILT ENVIRONMENT ECONOMY SUMMER SCHOOLS HIGHER EDUCATION ALPBACH LAXENBURG GROUP POLITICS TYROL DAYS CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIA RE:THINK AUSTRIA LAW SEMINAR WEEK LABS DIALOGLABORE TALKS & DIALOGE ALPBACH IN MOTION MEDIA ACADEMY Impact FORUM Structure ORGANISING TEAM PARTNERSPOLITICS AND POLICY PARTICIPANTS SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEES SPEAKERS COUNCIL ECONOMY ASSOCIATION CIVIL SOCIETY CULTURE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP HOLDERS BOARD SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD FORUM ALPBACH NETWORK www.alpbach.org Dear Reader, Follow us to Linz for our political innovation our environment, economy and culture – all laboratory, drop in on Alpbach for one of themes that will shape our future. We are Europe’s great conferences and visit us at the already inviting you to join the conversation Wiener Konzerthaus – this hand-picked selec- and contribute your views! tion of “Alpbach moments” is your chance to While we are on the subject of diversity: four do so. The extent to which this year’s theme years ago we decided to make the European – “Conflict & Cooperation” – touches the nerve Forum Alpbach even more inclusive and to of the times can be seen both in the intensi- invite new stakeholders on board. As you can ty of the debates and discussions and in the see on the left, our network has expanded, Forum’s huge resonance in the media. You can taking in major universities and companies to get an idea of this over the following pages. small initiatives and organisations, spanning Going forward, a glance at our plans for next the boundaries between nations and disci- year promises yet more excitement. Under the plines. It is our partners who give strength to 2018 theme of “Diversity & Resilience”, hun- the inter- and transdisciplinary “Spirit of Alp- dreds of experts from all over the world will bach” – and we are deeply grateful to them. discuss diversity, equilibrium and fragility, We are looking forward to new insights and along with a focus on the resilience, robust- new shared projects! ness and innovativeness of our societies, FRANZ FISCHLER, CASPAR EINEM, SONJA PUNTSCHER RIEKMANN, CLAUS J. RAIDL, URSULA SCHMIDT-ERFURTH PRESIDENTS OF THE EUROPEAN FORUM ALPBACH PHILIPPE NARVAL MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE EUROPEAN FORUM ALPBACH SONJA JÖCHTL MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE NON-PROFIT FOUNDATION OF THE EUROPEAN FORUM ALPBACH 5.374 711 PEOPLE WHO TOOK PART IN THE SCHOLARSHIP HOLDERS 2017 EUROPEAN FORUM ALPBACH 37 % 845 PROPORTION OF WOMEN SPEAKERS SPEAKERS WHO SHARED THEIR KNOWLEDGE IN 2017 IN ALPBACH IN 2017 ~7.400 102 PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED THE NUMBER OF NATIONALITIES FORUM VIA LIVE STREAM AMONG PARTICIPANTS ~1.200 ~160 NUMBER OF NATIONAL AND NUMBER OF COOPERATION PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL MEDIA REPORTS ABOUT FROM ACADEMIA, BUSINESS AND THE FORUM SOCIETY 2 European Forum Alpbach 2017 Conflict and Cooperation August 16 to September 1 Alpbach (Tyrol) Alpbach Symposia Alpbach in Motion – Summit of The main programme consists of several two- to Emerging Leaders three-day conferences on future issues in the 40 young European leaders gather in Alpbach built environment, higher education, financial to discuss Europe’s economic future in an inter- markets, health, politics, law, technology and active setting. The insights gained here flow into economics. Shorter events, such as the Tyrol the Alpbach Economic Symposium. Days, complement the programme. The arts are integrated into the symposia. Alpbach Media Academy Supported by media studies lecturers, young Seminar Week & Scholarship Programme journalists from all over Europe spend three More than 700 young people from over 80 coun- weeks reporting on the events of the conference, tries benefit from scholarships that enable them taking a critical and cross-media approach. to come to Alpbach. They can choose from a programme of over 20 academic seminars. Alpbach Laxenburg Group In the Alpbach Laxenburg Group, respected Alpbach Campus figures from the sciences and humanities, poli- The “Alpbach Campus” accompanying pro- tics, business and civil society work on concepts gramme offers the opportunity to acquire new, and recipes for solving global problems such as practical knowledge for professional develop- climate change and the educational divide (in ment. The Alpbach Campus includes the “Entre- partnership with the International Institute for preneurship” summer school, the Professional Applied Systems Analysis Laxenburg). Programmes in “Art of Hosting”, “European Health Care and Social Systems in Transition” Retreats in Alpbach and “Strategies of Influence”, the “Our World’s A number of organisations use the informal Future” simulation workshop and the university and interdisciplinary atmosphere of Alpbach course on “European Law”. Academic partners for meetings and retreats, including, for the including Cambridge University contribute their first time this year, the global “Ethics in Action” expertise. initiative. 3 Our activities 2017 FEBRUARY 2, 9 AND MARCH 30 / BERLIN / AUDIENCES OF 30 Dialogue laboratory “Strong in Hope” in Berlin The Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin was the setting for an interdisciplinary initiative in which pioneer- ing thinkers from Austria and Germany developed positive narratives on social changes. The European Forum Alpbach, as cooperation partner, helped to organise three dialogue laboratories in collaboration with the German Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung / Federal Agency for Civic Education. MAY 3 AND 24 AND JUNE 22 / VIENNA / AUDIENCES OF 200 Discussion series: Migration & Integration On three evenings, the European Forum Alpbach and the Federation of Austrian Industries (IV) invited international experts, including Oxford economist and migration researcher Paul Collier, to Vienna to present the latest studies, theories and forecasts on migration and integration. MAY 15 AND SEPTEMBER 29 / VIENNA / AUDIENCES OF 300 Alpbach Talks In Vienna’s Odeon Theater and MuTh – Concert Hall of the Vienna Boys’ Choir, experts and the audience discussed social and political challenges – a series of events in cooperation with the Wiener Zeitung newspaper. JUNE 1 TO 3 / LINZ / 70 PARTICIPANTS Innovation laboratory: Re:think Austria Around 70 Austrian decision-makers from politics and civil society held two days of participatory discus- sions on “Rethinking Democracy and Participation” in the innovation laboratory “Re:think Austria”. JUNE 21 TO 23 / VIENNA / GEN SUMMIT MEDIA CONFERENCE Media academy on tour For the second time, the Alpbach Media Academy was a guest of the Global Editors Network Summit, a conference for media creators from all over the world, and reported on the conference on behalf of its organisers. NOVEMBER 23 / KONZERTHAUS VIENNA / AUDIENCE OF 300 Alpbach Dialogues at the Wiener Konzerthaus New in autumn 2017: two fascinating figures from culture, academia, politics and society take to the stage of the Wiener Konzerthaus to get to the bottom of the great themes of our times. The guests on the first evening were Daniel Barenboim, conductor and citizen of the world, and the Swiss political activist Flavia Kleiner. 4 SPEAKERS OF ALL OUR EVENTS 2017 Farah Abdi | Bernhard Achitz | Emmanuel Adamakis | Cefli Ademi | Futuma Musa Afrah | Benjamin Aigner | Lorena Martin Alarcon | Alin Olimpiu Albu-Schäffer | Fadi Al-Hamwi | Nouf Al-Jabri | Muhammad Al-Sammak | Philipp Amann | Gabriele Ambros | Volker Amelung | Ian Andersen | Martina Anditsch | Vytenis Andriukaitis | Hannes Androsch | Silvia Angelo | Marcus Anhäuser | Anthony Annett | Andres Anvelt | Günther Apfalter | Margit Appel | Hermann Arnold | Franz Aschl | Seyran Ates | Alan Atkisson | Daniel Attia | Beate Atzler | Franz Auer | Astrid Auer-Reinsdorff | Tobias Bach | Markus Bacher | Wolfgang Bachler | Franz Bachmaier | Christoph Badelt | Carla Amina Baghajati | Tarafa Baghajati | Sandra Baierl | Louise Baker | Kajsa Balkfors | Köksal Baltaci | Bella Ban | David Barron | Gerald Bast | Bernd Bäuchler | Maria Baumgartner | Peter Baumgartner | Ulrike Baumgartner-Gabitzer | Francoise Baylis | Bernadette Bayrhammer | Josef Behofsics | Farnaz Beikzadeh-Abbasi | Susana Martin Belmonte | Agnes Benassy-Quere | Gloria Benedikt | Eyal Benvenisti | Christian Berger | Ulrich Berger | Konrad Bergmeister | Martin Bernhofer | Helmut Bernkopf | Catherine Bertini | Almina Besic | Tarek R. Besold | Susanne Bethge | Roberto Biasi | Peter Bichl | Andreas Bierwirth | Annette Bik | Chantal Bilodeau | Johannes Bintinger | Dorina Biro | Markus Bischofer | Sven Biscop | Joachim Bitterlich | Gerhard Blabensteiner | Rainer Blatt | Philipp Blom | Daniel Bochsler | Julia Bock-Schappelwein | Alexander Bodmann | Adam Bodnar | Anna Bohrn | Petra Bohuslav | Katy Börner | Jo Ivey Boufford | Katharina Brandl | Helmut Brandstätter | Helmut Brath | Renate Brauner | Frank Brettschneider | Francesca Bria | Ingrid Brodnig | James Browne | Hans Bruyninckx | Joanna J. Bryson | Klaus Buchleitner | Michael Bünker | Jakob Bürgler | Bertram Burtscher | Peter Bussjäger | Praskovya Bystrova | Brenton Caffin | Tommaso Calarco | Ali Can | Maria Chiara Carrozza | Phil Cass | Satjiv Chahil | Eric Charran | Yu-Min Chiang | Margaret Childs | Gregory Claeys | Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook | Deborah Cohen | Rowan Conway | Alexander Craig | Andras Csizmadia | Christian Cummins | Wojciech Czaja | Christoph Dachs | Hannelore Daniel | Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber | Olivier Dantine | Karsten Danzmann | Nick Davies | Ben Davis | Ursula Daxecker | Jos De Blok | Jo De Cock