Welcome to the European Forum Alpbach 2018 Diversity & Resilience | Aug 15 to 31, 2018
Europe’s Festival of Ideas When Nobel Price laureates, courageous entrepreneurs, extraordinary artists and engaged people from civil society meet in a small Tyrolean mountain village, new ideas are bound to emerge. When high-level European politicians, presidents, members of government and managers are added to the mix, then actions quickly follow words.
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Where Ideas Can Grow Since 1945, hundreds of international speakers from academia, business, politics, culture, and civil society have been transforming Alpbach into the European summer capital of discourse. Together with 5,000 participants, including 700 young scholarship holders from all over the world, they search for answers to the fundamental challenges facing our society.
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European Forum Alpbach 2018 Diversity & Resilience 15.–31.8.2018 Seminar Week SEM 15.–21.08.2018 Tyrol Days TYR 18.–19.08.2018 Health Symposium MED 19.–21.08.2018 Artists in Discourse* ART 22.08.2018 Technology Symposium TEC 23.–25.08.2018 Legal Symposium LAW 26.–28.08.2018 Political Symposium POL 26.–28.08.2018 Economic Symposium ECN 28.–30.08.2018 Financial Market Symposium FIN 30.–31.08.2018
Art & Cultural Programme Alpbach Campus Professional Programmes Alpbach in Motion – Summit of Emerging Leaders Alpbach Media Academy Alpbach-Laxenburg Group Meeting Alpbach Retreats *Instead of Higher Education Symposium
National and International Partner Organisations
Alongside our principal partners and co-promoters such as the Austrian Institute of Technology and ORF Radio Ă–1, the European Forum Alpbach is supported by over 100 other partner organisations. These include international academic partners such as the University of Cambridge, the Harvard University, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the Falling Walls Conference, the Joint Research Centre 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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European Forum Alpbach Venue Congress Centre Alpbach & village of Alpbach, Tyrol, Austria You will be awed by the beauty of the 1.000 metre-high mountain village of Alpbach. The tranquil surroundings, far from the bustle of daily life, create a unique atmosphere bursting with novel ideas and new ways of thinking.
3d digital 2,500m² sound system
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green meeting certification
Alpbach Scholarship Programme Aged under 30? Then visit www.alpbach.org/scholarships to apply for one out of 700 Alpbach scholarships reserved for engaged young people from around the world. The scholarship programme is made possible by sponsors, the Forum Alpbach Network (alumni) and the European Forum Alpbach Foundation. All over the world, they search for answers to the fundamental challenges facing our society.
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Get in touch! Does your organisation want to become a partner? Do you want to support Alpbach scholarships? Do you want to register? Please visit www.alpbach.org or contact us directly:
Franz Fischler | President, European Forum Alpbach; former European Commissioner for Agriculture and Fisheries via christiane.schwaiger@alpbach.org +43 (0)1 718 17 11 - 18 Philippe Narval | Managing Director of the European Forum Alpbach Conference philippe.narval@alpbach.org +43 (0)1 718 17 11 - 0 Sonja Jรถchtl | Managing Director of the European Forum Alpbach Foundation sonja.joechtl@alpbach.org +43 (0)1 718 17 11 - 29 Stefan Kranewitter | Press and Accreditations stefan.kranewitter@alpbach.org +43 (0)1 718 17 11 - 25