Alpbach IDEAS

AI deepfakes violate dignity and spread faster than laws can keep up. The project fights for an EU Right to Dignity: fast takedowns, platform responsibility, and real legal protections. Dignity isn’t optional.

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Complaints have changed the world – from voting rights to paid holidays. SpeakEU helps citizens raise their voices together and spark change.

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This coalition of citizens, NGOs, environmentalists, scientists, and public health experts is dedicated to combating cigarette butt pollution in Europe. They plan to lobby for an amendment of the EU's Tobacco Products Directive and advocate for a number of initiatives to reduce environmental pollution and toxic waste, lower cleanup costs, and enhance public awareness of tobacco issues.

Discover the Filter the Future Coalition website!

Lawgic aims to develop an accessible, AI-powered tool that will simplify navigating the complex EU regulatory landscape. Their goal is to create a platform that empowers European citizens and businesses to bring their ideas to life by ensuring compliance, fostering innovation, and helping Europe stay competitive on the global stage.

Matchy connects green transition NGOs and startups with young professionals, facilitating matchmaking to simplify the grant writing process. Their platform helps organizations secure resources for sustainable initiatives while creating career opportunities for young professionals in the sustainability sector, driving innovation and supporting long-term development.

Unida is tackling the youth mental health crisis by creating engaging, playful, and accessible content that helps young Europeans regain control over their well-being. Their approach focuses on shifting time spent on social media towards mental health-enhancing content, strengthening personal agency, and promoting a healthier, more resilient society.

Palumba was the first pan-European voting application designed by and for young voters.

Palumba EU matched over 170,000 young first-time voters with their most compatible European Parliament group and local candidate lists; that's over 5,000,000 swipes on key European issues, accessible in over 20 languages translated by native speakers, even in regional dialects.

For almost a year, 150+ young talented volunteers from all EU member states worked on creating Palumba from scratch: a non-partisan / open-source / non-profit app with the ambitious goal of massively reducing the abstention of first-time voters in the 2024 European Elections, by helping them understand which candidates best support their priorities in a gamified manner.

Team Members: Pol Villaverde, Miriam Egger, Thomas Garnier, Lavinia Corduneanu, Florentina Penescu, Florian Reinders, Michael Kudler, Pol Turu, Daniela Negruti, Csenge Pap, Francesc Almendros, Pierre-Louis Giscard d'Estaing

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"Unlocking Opportunities" aims to increase participation in career development among youth from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. By creating an opportunities-sharing platform, the project helps bridge the gap in motivation, access, and self-agency, ensuring that career development resources are available to all, regardless of background.

In addition to creating an opportunities-sharing platform, the team is developing an automated matchmaking bot to enhance the connections between students and mentors. With support from the Aalto University Sustainability Booster Grant, they will launch a test bot in Finland. As they continue to work on this project, they are seeking additional grants and scholarships to expand their efforts.

Team Members: Antonio Naranjo​, Daria Chekalskaia, Cruz Glynka

Beyond Concrete is an alternative building materials project to help architects and builders with easy access to information about sustainable materials for greener buildings. It is inspired by the 'leporello' format, showing stamps of the materials on the outside and information about each material on the inside.

Team Members: Racha Doughman