Alpbach Moments 2016 by European Forum Alpbach

Alpbach Moments 2016

European Forum Alpbach Growing Ideas for the Europe of Tomorrow.

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2016 marked a milestone in our history with the opening of the enlarged Congress Centre Alpbach. But it also featured two other waymarkers: firstly, the new appointments to our advisory board, enabling us to guarantee the high quality of our future programming and, secondly, the revitalisation of our charitable foundation in order to extend our scholarship programme.

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Whether the subjects are political ideas, revolutionary technologies, or pioneering research findings, it is the mission of our organisation to connect global citizens in a constructive dialogue with each other.

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At the European Forum Alpbach, we aim to promote an open, diverse and participatory environment where innovative ideas can flourish. It is our firm belief that what society needs most at the present moment are fresh, new insights to tackle its most pressing problems. At the same time, our cherished cause is to involve young people and nurture their enthusiasm for the idea of a shared Europe.

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The strong need for exchanging arguments, knowledge and experiences can be seen, for example, in our Network Meetings for Mayors: hundreds of municipal leaders took part in it. The result is a handbook on the integration of refugees which is used by local authorities all over Europe. The European Forum Alpbach and its scholarship programme wouldn’t be viable without strong sponsors and supporting institutions. We would therefore like to express the same gratitude to our supporters and cooperation partners as we owe to the voluntary advisors, the organising team, the volunteers and all participants. The following pages offer a glimpse into what many call, the “Spirit of Alpbach”. Care to experience it for yourself? We invite you to join in!

FRANZ FISCHLER, CASPAR EINEM, SONJA PUNTSCHER RIEKMANN, CLAUS J. RAIDL, URSULA SCHMIDT-ERFURTH EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE EUROPEAN FORUM ALPBACH PHILIPPE NARVAL MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE EUROPEAN FORUM ALPBACH

Our Activities 2016 A U G U S T 1 7 T O S E P T E M B E R 2 , 2 0 1 6 / A L P B A C H ( T Y R O L ) / 5 , 3 74 PA R T I C I PA N T S

European Forum Alpbach | New Enlightenment Alpbach Symposia The main programme consists of two- to threeday conferences on the future of the built environment, higher education, financial markets, health, politics, law, technology and the economy. The Forum also comprises shorter events such as the Tyrol Days. Artists engage intensively in the conference proceedings. Alpbach Seminar Week and Scholarships More than 700 young people are able to come to Alpbach thanks to a scholarship. 16 academic seminars form the agenda. Alpbach Campus The accompanying programme, “Alpbach Campus”, offers you the chance to acquire practical new knowledge for your own professional development. The range includes the “Entrepreneurship” and “Service Design” Summer Schools, the Professional Programmes “the Art of Hosting”, “European Health Care and Social Systems in Transition”, “EU Decision-Making and Negotiation” and “Strategies of Influence” as well as the “European Law” University Course.

Alpbach in Motion – Summit of Emerging Leaders Around 40 European young leaders come to Alpbach every year to discuss the economic future of Europe in an interactive setting. The newly obtained insights flow into the Alpbach Economic Symposium. Alpbach Media Academy For three weeks, young journalists from all over Europe write multi-media and critical reports about the conference under the direction of media experts. Alpbach-Laxenburg Group Renowned experts from science, politics, economics and civil society have joined forces to develop concepts and formulas to address current challenges, including climate change and educational poverty. The Alpbach-Laxenburg Group is part of a partnership with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) located in Laxenburg.

The European Forum Alpbach 2016 in Numbers People who attended the European Forum Alpbach 2016 �� 5,374 Speakers who shared their knowledge in Alpbach in 2016 ��992 Proportion of women among all speakers in Alpbach 2016 ��33% Countries that participants travelled from to come to Alpbach in 2016 ��102 People who followed the European Forum Alpbach 2016 via webstream �� 9,318 Number of partners from science, business and society ��160 Number of national and international media reports on the European Forum Alpbach 2016 ��~1,200

J A N U A R Y 1 8 , W I E S E L B U R G ( L O W E R A U S T R I A ) / J A N U A R Y 2 2 , M A R K T H A R T M A N N S D O R F ( S T Y R I A ) / J A N U A R Y 2 7, Z I R L ( T Y R O L ) / S E P T E M B E R 2 , A L P B A C H ( T Y R O L ) / 3 5 0 PA R T I C I PA N T S

Network Meetings for Mayors In January 2016, more than 250 Austrian mayors began exchanging their knowledge and experiences on the integration of asylum seekers in the Austrian federal states of Lower Austria, Styria and Tyrol. During these networking meetings, the mayors produced a hand book designed to help other local authorities create housing for asylum seekers. The last meeting of the year took place at the conclusion of the European Forum Alpbach and focused on long-term integration of refugees.

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Second Alpine Region Energy Forum The Alpine region offers ideal topographic conditions for the use of renewable energy and the achievement of the European energy and climate targets. 250 experts from the Alpine region paved the way for a shared Alpine energy strategy.

J U N E 16 TO 18 / LINZ (U PPER AUS TRIA) / 70 PER SO N S

Re:think Austria Around 70 Austrian decision-makers from politics and civil society spent two days in participatory discussions on “Digitisation & Politics” in the Innovation Lab “Re:think Austria”.

NOVEMBER 3 / RADIOKULTURHAUS VIENNA / 200 PARTICIPANTS

J A N UA RY 12 / FE B R UA RY 2 / FE B R UA R 24 / J U N E 2 2 / D E C E M B E R 13 / V I E N N A / 3 0 0 PA R T I C I PA N T S E A C H

ORF DialogForum Alpbach Special

Alpbach Talks At a variety of locations, experts discuss socio-political challenges with the audience – in cooperation with the Wiener Zeitung.

In cooperation with the Austrian broadcaster ORF, media experts and their audience discussed the consequences of digitalization for journalism and democracy.

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Media Academy on Tour 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.

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Alpbach Talks Odeon Theatre to provide her view of this hottest of all socio-political topics. In addition to integration, the subjects of education and digitisation dominated the talks’ agenda (in cooperation with the newspaper Wiener Zeitung).

Yesterday on the run; today in the director’s chair: filmmaker Nina Kusturica (above centre) knows what it means to have to leave your homeland and what it takes to start all over again. Together with Kilian Kleinschmidt, a UN refugee expert with years of experience, (above right), she took to the stage of the

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Moving Mountains

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The Alpine region offers ideal topographic conditions for the use of clean energy and the achievement of the European energy and climate targets. It is high time that this potential was unlocked. A suitable strategy to begin unlocking this potential is it being the focus of the expert talks.

The last conference was in Munich in spring 2014, with this year’s follow-up on the other side of the Alps in Bolzano, Italy. The findings and an insight into the discussions can be found in a paper at www.alpbach.org/energieforum

When hundreds of media makers from all over the world gather at the summit of the industry in Vienna, you can bet that the alumni of our Media Academy were among them. Among them Briton Conor McMahon (rear left), interviewing Gérard Biard, editor-in-chief of the satire magazine Charlie Hebdo.

A few weeks after their away game in the metropolis, the young journalists changed back to their regular seats at the news desk of the Congress Centre Alpbach. You can read their reports on what happened at the conference at: www.alpbach.org/alpbuzz

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Out of the Silo, Get Set, Go! The setting promises high-dosage brainstorming: stakeholders from politics, business, academia, culture and civil society develop new solutions to key political questions in a participative process. Input from speakers and the innovative communication concept play a central role; ideological 10

barriers lose their significance. How should we organise politics in a digital world? What steps must political organisations take in order to maintain their ability to act independently in the future? You can read seven recommendations here: www.alpbach.org/rethink

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Pure (World) Class The hundreds of young people in Alpbach are an impressive testament to the eager demand for a robust and scholarly investigation of the contradictions of the present day.

Can we overcome violence with violence? In the Seminar Week, sociologist Maria Grazia Galantino from Romeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Unitelma Sapienza University goes systematically in search of organised violence in the 21st century. 12

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Participative Leadership The future of Switzerland’s oldest university is dear to the heart of Hedwig Kaiser (left). As Vice Rector of the Basel University she is rejigging internal projects and processes using participative methods. In Alpbach she discusses the right tools and methods to make participative leadership 14

especially successful. “Wiser action” is the credo on her poster, but this is just one lesson of many that the participants in the “Art of Hosting” training can take with them into their everyday professional life: www.alpbach.org/campus

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Probably the Most Beautiful Gesture in the World If you open your hand, you make dialogue possible. Actors like Katie Buchholz (front left) and Michael Balogun (front right) from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts London are experts in bold gestures. And they put this knowledge on stage not just in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream but also in the seminar rooms. 16

Alpbach’s goal is to overcome the boundaries between different subjects and disciplines – including art and culture. Alpbach’s first theatre workshop offers the opportunity to engage in-depth with body language, gesture and mime and to extend your own repertoire

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Where Ideas Can Grow The idea of a shared Europe is in danger of losing its charm. This insight prompts JeanClaude Juncker to make a passionate plea for the strengths of the European family. His words resonate and put the European Forum Alpbach into international headlines.

The president of the EU Commission chose his venue well. The new congress building, a joint project of the European Region Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino, demonstrates the constructive power of cross-border cooperation. It’s a place where good ideas for a united Europe can grow.

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The Sound of Europe A colourful pot pourri of sounds, notes and melodies pervades the foyer. In the thick of it, the Cypriot soloist Özge Özerbek (left), prepares herself and her violin for Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. A few minutes later she and her

120 colleagues from the European Union Youth Orchestra take to the stage in the new ElisabethHerz-Kremenak-Hall to inaugurate the new congress building in front of more than a thousand ceremony guests. 20

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When the Sun Tickles Your Face A picture-book adventurer: extreme mountaineer Peter Habeler (if you look closely you can see him to the right of Franz Fischler) was the first person to climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. On the narrow path to the Gratlspitz,

he tells his fellow early risers of his experiences. This peak may not be the highest place on earth, but it’s still a jewel of the Alps – especially when the rising sun bathes the Alpbach valley in the warm light of dawn.

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From Big to Small and Back Participants in the Health Symposium examined the challenges of healthcare in small groups as well as on a larger scale. The photo shows the participants in the breakout session discussing new role models in medicine. The conference programme challenged stakeholders from all

areas of the healthcare system to change positions several times in more than one sense of the word. Especially for a subject as complex as this, there must be debates in many formats that enable close-up views without losing sight of the bigger picture.

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High-level Controversy

Doing it Themselves

Mariana Mazzucato (front) teaches economics at the University of Sussex. Hermann Hauser (rear) helps start-ups in Silicon Valley and Cambridge to achieve success. While her aim is to strengthen the assets and abilities of the state, his emphasis is on

entrepreneurs’ capacity for innovation. Moderator Shailendra Vyakarnam (centre) from Cranfield University expertly juggles a debate between two quick-witted speakers who share few specific opinions but a great passion for discussion.

Tinkering with solutions, experimenting with prototypes and crafting their own models: young people get hands-on in both the 24-hour Innovation Marathon (above) and the “Fab Lab” in Alpbach’s swimming pool.

As we all know, there’s no set recipe for innovation. Alpbach offers free space to simply make new things yourself. Creative souls can find an environment to sate their curiosity for science and technology.

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Roof Terrace with a View The impressive natural backdrop of the Alpbach valley plays its part in the relaxed atmosphere. There’s nowhere else where it’s so easy to exchange thoughts and arguments with politicians, scientists or artists.

You won’t find them on the programme, but they’re brimming with the famous “Spirit of Alpbach”: the spontaneous discussions with extraordinary people that we call Fireside Talks. The speakers expand on their conference themes, mostly off the record and in detail. 28

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Reality Check for Europe In the team of EU Foreign Affairs High Representative Federica Mogherini, Nathalie Tocci (right) designed the future EU strategy for international and security policy. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the paper intended to describe all the major challenges facing Europe and to offer solutions.

In Alpbach she subjects the strategy proposal to a public reality check. At the same time, she and the Austrian Foreign Ministry use the European Forum Alpbach for a conclave with the European External Action Service and leading thinktanks.

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Summit of the Generations Lana Lauren (centre), a company founder, or Tibor von Merey (right), a project leader in a major management consultancy firm. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the intensive dialogue at eye level that brings all participants new perspectives as well as visible enjoyment. Find out more at www.alpbach.org/aim

For the economist, Charles Handy (left) is a guru, one of the leading thinkers in contemporary management theory. Normally he packs out the biggest halls â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but in Alpbach the best-selling author takes the time to discuss the business model of the future with young leaders such as 32

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A Look behind the Political Headlines

A Thinktank Pointing the Way to Sustainability

Nuray Mert (at right of podium) works as a political scientist and journalist in Istanbul. From this vantage point she pays close attention to developments in her country. Despite all the political turbulence, she takes part in the European Forum Alpbach

and enriches the debate on the tense relationship between the EU and accession candidate Turkey. Incisive socio-political observers such as Nuray Mert and her valuable arguments make global politics tangible in Alpbach.

board. In the middle of the action are also cultural figures such as dancer Gloria Benedikt (above): “Courage” is the name of the piece she and Mimmo Micolis brought along for its world premiere. In her performance, the borders between science, politics, economics and culture disappear on the large stage of the Congress Centre Alpbach.

Right from its beginnings, the Alpbach-Laxenburg Group saw itself as an ideas factory with a special emphasis on cross-disciplinary work. Renowned scientists, intellectuals and entrepreneurs from all continents translate the objectives of the UN Sustainable Development Goals into action plans for politics. For the first time this year, young entrepreneurs from the Global Impact Hub were on 35

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New Paradigms for the Economy Don’t own, use: the American entrepreneur Robin Chase (right) is a pioneer of the global sharing economy. With her car-sharing company she turned sharing into a profitable business principle and changed the mobility practices of millions of consumers.

The agenda of the Economic Symposium is based on what established companies can – or rather must – learn from her success story and other new business forms. The new Elisabeth-HerzKremenak-Hall offers the perfect setting for the search for a new enlightenment in the economy.

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How Responsibility Leads to Success Stephan Doering peers into the human psyche; Michaela Huber designs a corporate groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s communications; Gundi Wentner advises top executives and Marie Ringler does the same for young social entrepreneurs (left to right). They bring different experiences to bear on the

question of how values and a sense of responsibility can be embedded in a company. This diversity of backgrounds, entry points and specialist knowledge, which became apparent in the 22 breakout sessions, demonstrates the appeal of this programme format.

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Disagreement Wanted

Variable in Format, Consistent in Dialogue

Get up and get involved: Ludmila Bogdan (below), scholarship holder from Moldova, takes the microphone in the plenary session and confronts Yanis Varoufakis (above right), the former Greek finance minister, with her view of the European economy. What new approaches does the market economy

need? Must the Eurozone be rethought? Does politics need more or less room for manoeuvre? In Alpbach, positions and perspectives from all parts of Europe are communicated, whether from established speakers or young scholarship recipients at the start of their careers.

e xpanding on his thoughts on a walk through Alpine meadows (below, second from right). Formats such as breakfast clubs and hikes break up conventional conference rituals and show a more versatile side of renowned speakers.

When it comes to enabling the most direct and straightforward dialogue between participants and speakers, the programme organisers pull out all the stops. For example, the pioneering British investment thinker, Adam Seitchik, is already taking questions at breakfast (above left), and then

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Managing Integration Numerous experts, including Johannes Kopf (first row, third from left), head of Austriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public employment service AMS, mix with municipal leaders at the fifth Network Meeting for Mayors. In a participative and moderated process, the 42

local government representatives exchanged know-how about long-term integration of refugees.The result is a 100-page handbook you can access at www.alpbach.org/buergermeister.

Scholarships & Foundation Pages 46 to 49

Forum Alpbach Network Page 50

Association & Boards Pages 51 to 52

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The Quality Journalism of Tomorrow Digital technologies and increasing commercialisation are just two factors that are changing journalism from the ground up. As digital corporations enter the market, the old interplay between media and democracy is up for renegotiation. Together with ORF, the European Forum Alpbach addresses

this theme with its dramatic implications for democratic politics, in the form of a public, televised debate with academics and media makers, and attempts to outline new roadmaps for the quality journalism of tomorrow.

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SCHOL ARSHIP HOLDERS OF THE EUROPE AN FORUM ALPBACH

Nothing for Pessimists Cultural pessimists and cynics think that the youth of today are a waste of space. In Alpbach 700 young people from all over the world prove otherwise. They travel to Alpbach to immerse themselves in an environment bursting with novel ideas, new ways of thinking and opportunities

for making new contacts. And they return home with a more acute awareness of Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diversity and cultural sensitivity. All information on how to apply for a scholarship can be found online at www.alpbach.org/scholarships

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Create Meaning and Encourage Young People The scholarship programme of the non-profit private foundation of the European Forum Alpbach enables young people from across the world to come to Alpbach and to participate in the Forum. Here they find an intellectual environment in which they can extensively tackle socio-political key questions. The international exchange, the constructive dialogue and the substantive debates with renowned academics, managers and thinkers influence and connect the scholarship holders far beyond Alpbach. Thus the non-profit foundation of the European Forum Alpbach makes a sustainable contribution towards European integration and intercultural understanding.

Without the support of national and international partners, the extensive scholarship programme wouldn’t be possible. A total of 700 scholarship holders took part in the European Forum Alpbach 2016. This was made possible by sponsors, the international Forum Alpbach Network and the foundation’s own funds. The foundation was established by the association “European Forum Alpbach” as a non-profit private foundation of the same name in 2005. All operative costs arising from the organisation of the scholarship programme are carried by the association. Detailed information about the scholarship programme, cost structure and how you can support it can be found at www.alpbach.org/foundation Alpbach scholarship holders engage in a passionate discussion during the European Forum Alpbach with the human rights activist Hanan Ashrawi (centre) about the perspectives of the younger generation in the Middle East.

Werner Wutscher, entrepreneur and investor, Franz Fischler, president of the European Forum Alpbach and Ingrid Hamm, charity funding expert and formerly director of the Robert Bosch Foundation, make up the newly appointed management board of the charitable foundation of the European Forum Alpbach. The foundation’s aim is to bring young people to Alpbach and nurture their enthusiasm for the idea of a shared and peaceful Europe.

A total of 700 young people from 72 nations were able to take part in the 2016 European Forum Alpbach thanks to support from numerous partners. Together with famous academics they spend the seminar week getting to grips with the great social questions of the future.

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T H E A S S O C I AT I O N

European Forum Alpbach The first European Forum Alpbach took place in 1945, initially called “International College Weeks”. Founded in 1948 as a non-profit association based in Vienna, it acts independently of any ideology, religion or political party. The association only functions thanks to the vast number of people who,

with the exception of the organisation team, all give their time to the Forum Alpbach voluntarily. They have contributed to making the European Forum Alpbach one of the most important European interdisciplinary dialogue platforms for science, politics, economics and culture today.

FRANZ FISCHLER PRESIDENT

CASPAR EINEM VICE PRESIDENT

CLAUS J. RAIDL VICE PRESIDENT

URSULA SCHMIDT-ERFURTH VICE PRESIDENT

Honorary Presidents

Council

Scientific Advisory Board since 10/2016

Erhard Busek, Heinrich Pfusterschmid-Hardtenstein

Peter C. Aichelburg, Martin Bernhofer, Jürgen Busch, Verena Ehold, Friedrich Gleissner, Erich Gornik, Ivo Greiter, Wolfgang Habermayer, Michael Haider, Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger, Günter Hillebrand, Herwig Hösele, Michael Ikrath, Wolfgang Knoll, Georg Kopetz, Friedrich Korkisch, Richard Kruspel, Franz Leitgeb, Kathryn List, Christian Macek, Bernhard Marckhgott, Thomas Mayr-Harting, Patricia Mussi-Mailer, Dieter Natlacen, Michael Neider, Ewald Nowotny, Johannes Ortner, Klaus Poier, Filip Radunovic, Reingard Rauch, Pamela Rendi-Wagner, Wolfgang Renner, Verena Ringler, Walter Rothensteiner, Peter M. Schmidhuber, Christoph Schneider, Rainer Schrems, Matthias Strolz, Alexandra Terzic-Auer

Caspar Einem (Head), Brigitte Bach, Gerald Bast, Walter E. Feichtinger, Ulrike Felt, Fatima Ferreira-Briza, Eva Flicker, Elisabeth Freismuth, Martin H. Gerzabek, Markus Hengstschläger, Martin Kocher, Sabine Ladstätter, Stefanie Lindstaedt, Wolfgang Lutz, Irmgard Marboe, Tilmann Märk, Gerd Müller, Christa Neuper, Manfred Nowak, Helga Nowotny, Peter Purgathofer, Shalini Randeria, Mariam Rehm, Kirsten Rüther, Christoph Schneider, Margit SchratzenstallerAltzinger, Renée Schroeder, Franz Schuh, Stefan Thurner, Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik

SONJA PUNTSCHER RIEKMANN VICE PRESIDENT

FORUM ALPBACH NET WORK

Committed throughout Europe Despite their wide variety of experiences, specialisms and ways of life, the members of the alumni associations have one thing in common – a great passion for critical and interdisciplinary thinking. Their time together at the European Forum Alpbach connects former scholarship holders from across many years and national borders. Above all, former scholarship holders are active as

“FAN Ambassadors” in numerous countries. Visible proof of this connection can be seen in the development of 30 alumni associations from 19 different countries, which have also organised highly successful scholarship programmes. More information on the work and projects of the “Forum Alpbach Network” is provided at http://forum.alpbach.network

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Florian Altendorfer, Olha Latikaynen, Benjamin Monsorno, Lisa Charlotte Sonnberger (Speaker), Raphael Wurm FORUM ALPBACH NET WORK MEMBERS

– Initiative Group Alpbach Albania (AL) – Initiative Group Alpbach Armenia (ARM) – Club Alpbach Belgrade (SRB) – Club Alpbach Brussels (B) – Club Alpbach Bulgaria (BG) – Club Alpbach Burgenland (A) – Club Alpbach Croatia (HR) – Club Alpbach Georgia (GE) – Club Alpbach Germany (D) – Club Alpbach Greece (GR) – Initiative Group Alpbach Kosovo (KS) – Kyiv Initiative Group Alpbach (UA) – Club Alpbach Liechtenstein (LI) – Club Alpbach London (GB) – Lviv Initiative Group Alpbach (UA) – Club Alpbach Macedonia (MK)

– Club Alpbach Montenegro (MNE) – Club Alpbach Niederösterreich (A) – Club Alpbach Oberösterreich (A) – Initiative Group Alpbach Romania (R) – Club Alpbach Russia (RUS) – Club Alpbach Salzburg (A) – Initiative Group Alpbach Sarajevo (BIH) – Club Alpbach Senza Confini (A/SLO/I) – Club Alpbach Steiermark (A) – Club Alpbach Südtirol Alto Adige (I) – Club Alpbach Tirol (A) – Club Alpbach Trentino (I) – Club Alpbach Turkey (TUR) – Club Alpbach Vorarlberg (A) – Initiativgruppe Alpbach Wien (A)

Other Members of the Board Manfred Url (Finanzreferent), Günther Schrems, Max Kothbauer (Rechnungsprüfer) Arbitration Board Friedrich Gleissner, Waldemar Hummer, Michael Neider, Katharina Scherke Board Präsidium, Benjamin Monsorno, Lisa Charlotte Sonnberger, Manfred Url Managing Director of the Association Philippe Narval Board of the Foundation Franz Fischler, Ingrid Hamm, Werner Wutscher Managing Director of the Foundation Sonja Jöchtl

Corresponding Members of the Scientific Advisory Board since 10/2016 Peter Bojanic, Paul Dujardin, Pascale Ehrenfreund, Irene Giner-Reichl, Hermann Hauser, John-Dylan Haynes, Sabine Junginger, Hedwig-Josefine Kaiser, Lisa Kaltenegger, Jan Kickert, Burton Lee, Konrad Paul Liessmann, Nathalie Loiseau, Dominik Markl, Thomas Mayr-Harting, Jürgen Mlynek, Berthold Molden, Patrizia Isabelle Nanz, Friedrich B. Prinz, Michael Reiterer, David Rejesky, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Nona Shepphard, Elisabeth Wehling, Howard Williamson, Ruth Wodak, Klaus Zeyringer

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Organising Team

Principal Partners

Philippe Narval (Managing Director), Martina Albrecht, Verena Gruber, Ruth Heinisch, Stefan Kranewitter, Franz Mailer, Katharina Okulski, Magdalena Rostkowska-Müllner (on leave), Christiane Schwaiger, Monika SommerSieghart, Floria Springer, Charlotte Steenbergen, Annamária Tóth, Lara Weisz, Franziska Werkner

BMW | Fabasoft | Land Tirol | Österreichische Lotterien | Swarovski Co-Organisers

Main Partners

Cooperation Partners

AIT | AK | Europaregion Tirol – Südtirol – Trentino | ORF Radio Ö1 | Pharmig | WKÖ

A1 | Generali Holding | Stiftung Mercator | T-Mobile | WVG Bauträger

BM für Bildung und Frauen | BM für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie | BM für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft | FHK | uniko

Scientific Partners

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Health Symposium

Tyrol Days

Political Symposium

Clemens Auer, Alena Buyx, Amin El-Heliebi, Julian Hadschieff, Jan Oliver Huber, Hedwig Kaiser, Michael Landau, Philippe Narval, Sigrid Pilz, Josef Probst, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, Viktoria Stein, Johannes Steinhart, Christa Wirthumer-Hoche, Johannes Zschocke

Andreas Altmann, Konrad Bergmeister, Adriano Cataldo, Andreas Eisendle, Matthias Fink, Franz Fischler, Helga Fritsch, Martin Kubat, Walter Lorenz, Christina Maymone, Tilmann Märk, Julia Osl, Julia Sandrini, Sabine Schindler, Werner Stuflesser

Almina Besic, Erhard Busek, Vedran Dzihic, Walter E. Feichtinger, Franz Fischler, Ulrike Guérot, Kilian Kleinschmidt, Gerald Knaus, Alexander Marschik, Thomas Mayr-Harting, Pavel Kabat, Emilia Pasquier, Sonja Puntscher Riekmann, Shalini Randeria, Verena Ringler, Bernhard Wrabetz

Legal Symposium

Economic Symposium

Financial Market Symposium

As well as

Sonja Barnreiter, Maria Berger, Ludwig Bittner, Tamara Ehs, Caspar Einem, Michael Enzinger, Michael Holoubek, Martin Kreutner, Brigitee Loderbauer, Klaus Poier, Richard Soyer, Eva Tscherner, Alma Zadic, Carl Baudenbacher, Alexander Somek, Christine Stix-Hackl, Verica Trstenjak

Christoph Badelt, Claus J. Raidl, Wolfgang Eichert, Anna Handschuh, Martin Kocher, Georg Kopetz, Markus Marterbauer, Emanuel Riccabona, Franz Schellhorn, Christoph Schneider, Agnes Streissler-Führer

Willi Hemetsberger, Günther Lindenlaub, Jeffrey Owens, Claus J. Raidl, Franz Rudofer, Agnes StreisslerFührer, Christoph Schmidinger, Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell

Built Environment Symposium

Contributions in Kind

Christoph M. Achammer, Brian Cody, Caspar Einem, Heinz Fassmann, Angelika Fitz, Daniel Glaser, Sina Lipp, Sylke Nissen, Margit Noll, Johannes Paar, Barbara Ruhsmann, Claudia Schönegger, Hans Jörg Wippel, Haris Piplas

TURNOVER AND COSTS 2015

T U R N O V E R 2 0 1 5 : € 2 , 6 9 7, 9 5 5

Our Work so Far The European Forum Alpbach has operated as a non-profit association since 1948. The association is headed by an honorary executive board. The organisation team in Vienna consists of 15 employees. Over 100 volunteers support the Forum. We also act as a platform for socio-political discourse and innovation and support the young people of Europe.

Other Income € 31,509 (1,3%)

Public Funds € 245,216 (9%)

Thanks to countless supporters, sponsors and solid revenue from participation fees, the European Forum Alpbach was able to continue non-profit projects such as the Media Academy, the Innovation Lab “Re:think Austria” and the Networking Meetings for Mayors. In 2015, the organisation ran a balanced budget.

Participation Fees € 1,194,935 (44,3%)

Sponsoring € 1,212,920 (44,9%)

V E R I F I E D A N D T R A N S PA R E N T

Open & Reliable The European Forum Alpbach’s annual financial statements are audited each year by Sedelmayer & Klier Steuerberater und Wirtschaftsprüfer GmbH. The accounts constitute a record of use of the sponsorship money and donations entrusted to us. The audit for the 2015 financial year was completed on March 17, 2016, and was accepted unanimously by the General Assembly on Mai 31, 2016: “According to our assessment, the (...) present accounting system is a transparent and comprehensive reflection of the course of business.

Membership Fees € 13,375 (0,5%)

The association’s financial situation is in order.” The financial statements were submitted to the association committee for statutory use and were judged as orderly, and the allocation of funds was deemed to be in accordance with the statutes by honorary auditors Günter Schrems (Head of Organisation Sales Processes; Erste Bank) and Max Kothbauer (Vice President of the National Bank of Austria).

C O S T S 2 0 1 5 : € 2 , 6 9 7, 9 5 5

Operating Expenses € 274,884 (11%)

Staff Expenses € 809,153 (30%)

Organisation European Forum Alpbach (incl.Special Events & Campus 1,613,918 (59%)

PA R T I C I PAT I O N S AT T H E E U R O P E A N F O R U M A L P B A C H 2 0 1 6 Seminar Week 834 Persons Tyrol days 433 Persons Health Symposium 704 Persons Higher Education Symposium 1,130 Persons Technology Symposium 1,622 Persons Legal Symposium 536 Persons Political Symposium 1,490 Persons Economic Symposium 1,839 Persons Financial Market Symposium 681 Persons Built Environment Symposium 519 Persons

Note: The chart indicates the number of persons who have attented different symposia (incl. multiple participations). 55

Conflict and Cooperation Konflikt und Kooperation European Forum Alpbach 2017 16.8. – 1.9.2017 | #efa17 Seminar Week Tyrol Days Health Symposium Higher Education Symposium Technology Symposium Political Symposium Legal Symposium Economic Symposium Built Environment Symposium Financial Market Symposium

August 16 to 22 August 19 to 20 August 20 to 22 August 23 August 24 to 26 August 27 to 29 August 27 to 29 August 29 to 31 August 31 to September 1 August 31 to September 1

More: www.alpbach.org/2017

E X PA N S I O N O F T H E C O N G R E S S C E N T R E A L P B A C H

Curtain Up for the New Congress Centre More space, more comfort, more possibilities – with the expanded Congress Centre Alpbach, the European region Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino now possesses a conference venue of world class. The generous space makes it possible to combine even more talks than at present. In 2016, for example, the Legal Symposium took place in parallel to the

Political Symposium for the first time. The building is characterised by a smart, sustainable architecture, with the hall featuring a unique 3D acoustics. Thanks to the unobtrusive way it’s embedded into the mountain, the Alpbach townscape remains completely untouched. Cover Picture: A paper rocket rises into the sky over Alpbach. The model was built in a “Maker” workshop organised by the Forum Alpbach Network Standing Committee, the TU Space Team, bmwfw and Happylab, during the European Forum Alpbach 2016.

S U S TA I N A B L E C O N S T R U C T I O N W I T H “G R E E N M E E T I N G ” C E R T I F I C AT I O N F I N A N C E PA R T N E R S : S TAT E O F T Y R O L , E U R O P E A N R E G I O N T Y R O L- S O U T H T Y R O L-T R E N T I N O , M U N I C I PA L I T Y O F A L P B A C H , T V B A L P B A C H TA L & T I R O L E R S E E N L A N D , E U R O P E A N F O R U M A L P B A C H , B M L F U W A R C H I T E C T: M A R K U S P R A C K W I E S E R – T E A M D I N A 4 A R C H I T E K T U R Z T G M B H OPENING IN SUMMER 2016

Imprint (December 2016): Publisher: Europäisches Forum Alpbach gemeinnütziger Verein | Franz-Josefs-Kai 13/10, 1010 Vienna | Tel.: +43 1 718 17 11 | forum@alpbach.org Pictures EFA 2016: Philipp Naderer, Maria Noisternig, Sebastian Philipp, Andrei Pungovschi, Matthias Silveri | Other Pictures: Peter Mayr, Luiza Puiu, Simon Rainsborough, Matthias Sedlak, Alex Schöller | Editor: Stefan Kranewitter | Production: Franz Mailer | Printing: Druckerei Hans Jentzsch & Co GmbH, Vienna

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