Become a Partner
The European Forum Alpbach opens minds and hearts for Europe.
Through a partnership with the European Forum Alpbach you actively shape a strong and democratic Europe. We are committed to creating reliable connections between our continent’s key decision-makers and its youth. The EFA community sparks ideas for a strong European future – all year round. Read more about our purpose.
Would you like to be part of this inspiring cause?
If you feel a desire to engage in shaping Europe, we warmly invite you to join us. Together, we can uncover the potential we share, and develop tailored engagement opportunities or identify existing formats that offer the right space for you to make a real difference.
Your engagement with the European Forum Alpbach can take multiple forms: through sponsorships that bring shared values to life, through grants that fuel strategic initiatives, or through donations that directly advance our mission.
Join us in Driving Impact
Talent Development
Each year, the European Forum Alpbach welcomes 500 young talents from about 70 countries to contribute bold ideas and take the European idea into their own hands. Their perspectives enrich debates and help shape a resilient Europe, supported by a wide alumni network that amplifies the EFA’s impact — and vice versa.
Join us in inspiring and supporting the next generation to become active, engaged citizens in Europe and their regions. By contributing to our talent development programmes, being it our scholarship programme for young talents below 30 or our leadership lab for outstanding professionals below 40, you help unlock potential, nurture leadership, and strengthen democratic participation.
Content and Ideas
Join in to tackle today’s challenges through cooperation. By supporting and engaging in our tracks, topics and formats, your organisation connects with leaders from science, politics, and business as well as the young generation to co-create impactful solutions. Show your thought-leadership, inspire innovation, shape the next generation and build a better future - together.
Community Building
The European Forum Alpbach is more than a conference – it’s a thriving network. EFA's social and networking formats are where relationships and alliances are built, far beyond the formal programme. With exchanges in informal settings, partners and donors not only gain visibility but also access to a vibrant community of likeminded individuals and unlikely allies shaping the future of Europe.
Arts & Culture
Through performances, workshops, concerts, and artistic interventions, Alpbach becomes a space of resonance for societal questions and collective visions. In this context, arts and culture are seen as catalysts for change, participation, and imagination. Supporting the Arts & Culture programme allows you and / or your organisation to engage with creative, high-impact responses to today’s challenges while demonstrating a strong commitment to innovation and societal progress.
Get in Touch
Contact us to find out more and explore your engagement opportunities.
Your EFA Contacts
Barbara Zimmermann
Jana Pflästerer
Sophia Dornfeld
Anna Stockhammer
Eldin Bajric
Johannes Schneeberger
Sven Nelander
Jakob Skudlik
Bettina Nahajowski
Our Core Partners
Erste Group
"Europe is facing new challenges and an increasingly uncertain environment. Central issues such as peace, democracy and human rights have taken on a new urgency. Together, we must face these challenges not fearfully, but resolutely. With a clear vision, strong commitment and bold ideas. It is up to us to jointly shape the promise the future holds for Europe. As the European Forum Alpbach’s Main Partner, we are eager to discuss and develop ideas for a stronger and more resilient Europe."
Open Society Foundations
“The Open Society Foundations support efforts by the European Union and likeminded European countries to play a stronger role globally — standing their ground in the face of sharpening conflict between authoritarianism and democracy, as well as uncertainties about Washington’s role in the world. We support European policy groups and think tanks that help policymakers assess their options and envisage new possibilities. Drawing on Open Society’s global network, we also seek to connect the Global South to Brussels and Strasbourg as we seek to engage Europe’s political leaders and legislators with their global responsibilities.”
Erste Stiftung
“The answers to the most burning questions in our ever-changing world lie in some form of cooperation and exchange. No single country, no single institution or individual will solve the climate crisis, curb the side effects of technological disruption, decrease inequality, or dismantle the many conflicts of our time. With fears, insecurity and polarisation on the rise, exchange and collaboration among people from very different fields, age groups and geography has never been more important, in order to find new ideas, hope and joy. A resilient, democratic, united Europe needs places where an open debate is possible, and new ideas can flourish into concrete actions and tangible impacts.”
EFA25 Partners
Discover more partners and supporters of the European Forum Alpbach 2025.