EFA26 Programme
The programme and list of speakers will be updated continuously. We look forward to seeing you in Alpbach!
Can Europe still win on the decisive issues?
Europe faces fundamental questions: Is Europe currently on the road to victory? Can Europe still win on the decisive issues? EFA26 will explore these questions, with voices from politics, science, business and culture, with young thinkers and experienced decision-makers.
Speakers Selection
Claudia Bauer (fmr. Plakolm)
Norbert Totschnig
TBC
Salome Zourabichvili
Burkhard Balz
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Gernot Wagner
Christoph Wiederkehr
Peter Hanke
Eva Maria Holzleitner
Yascha Mounk
Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer
Rhiannon McQuone
Beate Meinl-Reisinger
Alberto Alemanno
Mairead McGuinness
Peter Bosek
Clara Raposo
Iara Lee
Micael Johansson
Lea Ypi
Martin Kocher
Ivan Krastev
Modules
Programme
All times in CEST
Academy Days
Morning
Morning
Is Victory Possible in the 21st Century?
What does it mean to win? At what costs may victory be achieved? Are the antagonistic and violent practices and discourses of war and victory reconcilable with a sustainable peace? This seminar critically explores the concept of victory from Antiquity to today and specifically looks at the idea of victory in war. By incorporating moral, political, and cultural considerations, victory in the 21st century is reimagined.
09:30
-
12:30
Is Victory Possible in the 21st Century?
+1
SEC
SEM
Content
Digital Sovereignty: Why Europe Needs It and How It Can Get It
If digital sovereignty is about the ability to say ‘yes’ to a digital future that aligns with one’s interests and values – and ‘no’ to a future that doesn’t – Europe currently lacks it. In this workshop, we examine why this is the case and why it matters, what can and what should be done about it, and which policies and politics can get Europe there.
09:30
-
12:30
Digital Sovereignty: Why Europe Needs It and How It Can Get It
+1
DEM
SEM
Content
Hope and the Power to Shape our Future
How do we find the will to act when things seem hopeless? Because we are agents who care, our relationship to the future is driven by emotions like hope, anxiety, and despair – not mere feelings, but evaluative states that orient us toward action. Drawing on philosophy and the science of emotion, this interactive seminar invites you to explore how to harness these emotions, individually and collectively, to bring about the futures you value.
09:30
-
12:30
Hope and the Power to Shape our Future
+1
SEM
Content
Science and Ethics
Can we separate science and ethics? Where do we draw the boundaries?? In Artificial Intelligence, fairness and accountability are inseparable from how systems learn and how they justify knowledge. Scientific choices are moral choices, and ethics depend on scientific assumptions. The seminar explores good scientific practice and scientific misconduct, including falsification and fraud in academic research.
09:30
-
12:30
Science and Ethics
+1
SEM
Content
Envisioning Europe’s Future Cities
How can Europe’s cities become the places where transition is governed and the future is built? Europe has entered a new phase: climate collapse is no longer a distant risk, but a reality to be governed. This studio builds systems literacy, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and democratic imagination among young professionals. Participants leave with a deeper understanding to act as bridge-builders across sectors, borders, and generations.
09:30
-
12:30
Envisioning Europe’s Future Cities
+1
STU
Content
One Health Studio: Innovation, Sensing Future Potentials & New Questions
Global (One) Health demands more than incremental fixes. This studio shifts from reactive problem-solving to future-oriented innovation. Using sensing and reframing techniques, participants explore emerging potentials and questions in One Health. We challenge existing paradigms to co-create radical new questions and innovation pathways, equipping participants to proactively shape a resilient future.
09:30
-
12:30
One Health Studio: Innovation, Sensing Future Potentials & New Questions
+1
STU
Content
Embodied Experiences of Democracy
In this studio, participants explore the political dramaturgy of emotions – where theatre meets sociology. Emotions are movements, words, and gestures that shape how we live together. The ways we stand, speak, and relate enact democratic order. Conversely, emotions we suppress in public to sustain control can quietly erode democracy itself. //INFO: This project has received funding from the European Commission under the HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions Grant, No 101132327.
09:30
-
12:30
Embodied Experiences of Democracy
+1
STU
Content
Noon
Afternoon
Afternoon
Capital in Motion: Understanding How Capital Moves the World
This seminar makes capital markets tangible. Participants act as investors, make decisions under uncertainty, and explore how capital shapes companies and Europe’s future. Simulation, expert insights, and discussion connect theory with real-world application.
15:00
-
18:00
Capital in Motion: Understanding How Capital Moves the World
+1
FIN
SEM
Content
Activist Filmmaking: Telling Stories of Resistance and Hope
Ecological and social crises dominate the newsfeeds, pushing many people into apathy. How can artistic practices offer a way out? In the seminar, stories of resistance will be explored: Participants will learn about activist filmmaking, engage in dialogue about the narratives we are surrounded by, and create their own piece of hope to empower themselves and others.
15:00
-
18:00
Activist Filmmaking: Telling Stories of Resistance and Hope
+1
ART
SEM
Content
How Europe Winds
Air is essential yet often taken for granted, despite shaping movement, interaction, and perception. The posed question is not How Europe wins but winds — like a wind that opens spaces, brings together different voices, and creates new possibilities. Through movement, sound, and collective improvisation, participants are invited to explore ways of expressing themselves artistically. The session culminates in a shared performance, weaving together movement, sound, and expression.
15:00
-
18:00
How Europe Winds
+2
ART
SEM
Content
Stronger Together: The Power of the Ensemble.
This seminar will explore the ways in which many individuals can end up working as a cohesive team. Creating an effective and dynamic piece of theatre requires every actor to work seamlessly with the rest of the ensemble regardless of whether their part is major or minor. Acting students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London will share those parts of their training that enable this important connection.
15:00
-
18:00
Stronger Together: The Power of the Ensemble.
ART
SEM
Content
Theatre as a Sanctuary: How Theatre Builds Confidence and Connection
Many actors are introduced to theatre when their parents send them to theatre workshops to overcome their shyness and gain confidence; they end up going on stage in front of hundreds of people. The stage is their place of safety. So, what is it about working together to create a piece of theatre that produces this feeling? This seminar, led by students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, will explore this question.
15:00
-
18:00
Theatre as a Sanctuary: How Theatre Builds Confidence and Connection
ART
SEM
Content
Embodied Experiences of Democracy
In this studio, participants explore the political dramaturgy of emotions – where theatre meets sociology. Emotions are movements, words, and gestures that shape how we live together. The ways we stand, speak, and relate enact democratic order. Conversely, emotions we suppress in public to sustain control can quietly erode democracy itself. //INFO: This project has received funding from the European Commission under the HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions Grant, No 101132327.
15:00
-
18:00
Embodied Experiences of Democracy
+1
STU
Content
One Health Studio: Innovation, Sensing Future Potentials & New Questions
Global (One) Health demands more than incremental fixes. This studio shifts from reactive problem-solving to future-oriented innovation. Using sensing and reframing techniques, participants explore emerging potentials and questions in One Health. We challenge existing paradigms to co-create radical new questions and innovation pathways, equipping participants to proactively shape a resilient future.
15:00
-
18:00
One Health Studio: Innovation, Sensing Future Potentials & New Questions
+1
STU
Content
Envisioning Europe’s Future Cities
How can Europe’s cities become the places where transition is governed and the future is built? Europe has entered a new phase: climate collapse is no longer a distant risk, but a reality to be governed. This studio builds systems literacy, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and democratic imagination among young professionals. Participants leave with a deeper understanding to act as bridge-builders across sectors, borders, and generations.
15:00
-
18:00
Envisioning Europe’s Future Cities
+1
STU
Content
Creative Writing: Co-operation, Leadership and Empathy
Europe is often treated as geographical entity rather than a community shaped by shared values, such as cooperation, leadership, and empathy. This seminar uses story, poetry, memoir, reflective essays, and collaborative projects to explore ideas of solidarity, responsibility, and belonging across cultures and generations. Participants develop original texts and new perspectives that support dialogue and understanding across borders.
15:00
-
18:00
Creative Writing: Co-operation, Leadership and Empathy
+2
ART
SEM
Content
Dialogue across Divides: Designing Better Conversations for a Polarised World
Globally, polarisation is rising, yet confrontation isn’t inevitable. Constructive dialogue, curiosity over conflict, and finding common ground are choices we can make. This seminar explores the state of division and what it means for society. Through case studies, workshops, and interactive activities, we’'ll examine the forces shaping political disagreement, and how we can bridge divides to have more productive political conversations.
15:00
-
18:00
Dialogue across Divides: Designing Better Conversations for a Polarised World
+1
DEM
SEM
Content
Morning
Morning
Embodied Experiences of Democracy
In this studio, participants explore the political dramaturgy of emotions – where theatre meets sociology. Emotions are movements, words, and gestures that shape how we live together. The ways we stand, speak, and relate enact democratic order. Conversely, emotions we suppress in public to sustain control can quietly erode democracy itself. //INFO: This project has received funding from the European Commission under the HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions Grant, No 101132327.
09:30
-
12:30
Embodied Experiences of Democracy
STU
Content
Digital Sovereignty: Why Europe Needs It and How It Can Get It
If digital sovereignty is about the ability to say ‘yes’ to a digital future that aligns with one’s interests and values – and ‘no’ to a future that doesn’t – Europe currently lacks it. In this workshop, we examine why this is the case and why it matters, what can and what should be done about it, and which policies and politics can get Europe there.
09:30
-
12:30
Digital Sovereignty: Why Europe Needs It and How It Can Get It
+1
DEM
SEM
Content
Envisioning Europe’s Future Cities
How can Europe’s cities become the places where transition is governed and the future is built? Europe has entered a new phase: climate collapse is no longer a distant risk, but a reality to be governed. This studio builds systems literacy, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and democratic imagination among young professionals. Participants leave with a deeper understanding to act as bridge-builders across sectors, borders, and generations.
09:30
-
12:30
Envisioning Europe’s Future Cities
+1
STU
Content
Science and Ethics
Can we separate science and ethics? Where do we draw the boundaries?? In Artificial Intelligence, fairness and accountability are inseparable from how systems learn and how they justify knowledge. Scientific choices are moral choices, and ethics depend on scientific assumptions. The seminar explores good scientific practice and scientific misconduct, including falsification and fraud in academic research.
09:30
-
12:30
Science and Ethics
+1
SEM
Content
One Health Studio: Innovation, Sensing Future Potentials & New Questions
Global (One) Health demands more than incremental fixes. This studio shifts from reactive problem-solving to future-oriented innovation. Using sensing and reframing techniques, participants explore emerging potentials and questions in One Health. We challenge existing paradigms to co-create radical new questions and innovation pathways, equipping participants to proactively shape a resilient future.
09:30
-
12:30
One Health Studio: Innovation, Sensing Future Potentials & New Questions
+1
STU
Content
Hope and the Power to Shape our Future
How do we find the will to act when things seem hopeless? Because we are agents who care, our relationship to the future is driven by emotions like hope, anxiety, and despair – not mere feelings, but evaluative states that orient us toward action. Drawing on philosophy and the science of emotion, this interactive seminar invites you to explore how to harness these emotions, individually and collectively, to bring about the futures you value.
09:30
-
12:30
Hope and the Power to Shape our Future
+1
SEM
Content
Is Victory Possible in the 21st Century?
What does it mean to win? At what costs may victory be achieved? Are the antagonistic and violent practices and discourses of war and victory reconcilable with a sustainable peace? This seminar critically explores the concept of victory from Antiquity to today and specifically looks at the idea of victory in war. By incorporating moral, political, and cultural considerations, victory in the 21st century is reimagined.
09:30
-
12:30
Is Victory Possible in the 21st Century?
+1
SEC
SEM
Content
Labs: Multi-Day Working Sessions
Labs are 3-day facilitated working sessions with a closed and well-selected group of 30 participants that has a joint purpose with the goal that this group, first, becomes a community of action, and second, finds answers to a larger, cross-cutting problem.
09:00
-
18:00
Labs: Multi-Day Working Sessions
CLI
DEM
FIN
SEC
Content
Noon
Afternoon
Afternoon
One Health Studio: Innovation, Sensing Future Potentials & New Questions
Global (One) Health demands more than incremental fixes. This studio shifts from reactive problem-solving to future-oriented innovation. Using sensing and reframing techniques, participants explore emerging potentials and questions in One Health. We challenge existing paradigms to co-create radical new questions and innovation pathways, equipping participants to proactively shape a resilient future.
15:00
-
18:00
One Health Studio: Innovation, Sensing Future Potentials & New Questions
+1
STU
Content
Dialogue across Divides: Designing Better Conversations for a Polarised World
Globally, polarisation is rising, yet confrontation isn’t inevitable. Constructive dialogue, curiosity over conflict, and finding common ground are choices we can make. This seminar explores the state of division and what it means for society. Through case studies, workshops, and interactive activities, we’'ll examine the forces shaping political disagreement, and how we can bridge divides to have more productive political conversations.
15:00
-
18:00
Dialogue across Divides: Designing Better Conversations for a Polarised World
+1
DEM
SEM
Content
Activist Filmmaking: Telling Stories of Resistance and Hope
Ecological and social crises dominate the newsfeeds, pushing many people into apathy. How can artistic practices offer a way out? In the seminar, stories of resistance will be explored: Participants will learn about activist filmmaking, engage in dialogue about the narratives we are surrounded by, and create their own piece of hope to empower themselves and others.
15:00
-
18:00
Activist Filmmaking: Telling Stories of Resistance and Hope
+1
ART
SEM
Content
Theatre as a Sanctuary: How Theatre Builds Confidence and Connection
Many actors are introduced to theatre when their parents send them to theatre workshops to overcome their shyness and gain confidence; they end up going on stage in front of hundreds of people. The stage is their place of safety. So, what is it about working together to create a piece of theatre that produces this feeling? This seminar, led by students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, will explore this question.
15:00
-
18:00
Theatre as a Sanctuary: How Theatre Builds Confidence and Connection
ART
SEM
Content
Capital in Motion: Understanding How Capital Moves the World
This seminar makes capital markets tangible. Participants act as investors, make decisions under uncertainty, and explore how capital shapes companies and Europe’s future. Simulation, expert insights, and discussion connect theory with real-world application.
15:00
-
18:00
Capital in Motion: Understanding How Capital Moves the World
+1
FIN
SEM
Content
Stronger Together: The Power of the Ensemble.
This seminar will explore the ways in which many individuals can end up working as a cohesive team. Creating an effective and dynamic piece of theatre requires every actor to work seamlessly with the rest of the ensemble regardless of whether their part is major or minor. Acting students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London will share those parts of their training that enable this important connection.
15:00
-
18:00
Stronger Together: The Power of the Ensemble.
ART
SEM
Content
How Europe Winds
Air is essential yet often taken for granted, despite shaping movement, interaction, and perception. The posed question is not How Europe wins but winds — like a wind that opens spaces, brings together different voices, and creates new possibilities. Through movement, sound, and collective improvisation, participants are invited to explore ways of expressing themselves artistically. The session culminates in a shared performance, weaving together movement, sound, and expression.
15:00
-
18:00
How Europe Winds
+2
ART
SEM
Content
Embodied Experiences of Democracy
In this studio, participants explore the political dramaturgy of emotions – where theatre meets sociology. Emotions are movements, words, and gestures that shape how we live together. The ways we stand, speak, and relate enact democratic order. Conversely, emotions we suppress in public to sustain control can quietly erode democracy itself. //INFO: This project has received funding from the European Commission under the HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions Grant, No 101132327.
15:00
-
18:00
Embodied Experiences of Democracy
STU
Content
Creative Writing: Co-operation, Leadership and Empathy
Europe is often treated as geographical entity rather than a community shaped by shared values, such as cooperation, leadership, and empathy. This seminar uses story, poetry, memoir, reflective essays, and collaborative projects to explore ideas of solidarity, responsibility, and belonging across cultures and generations. Participants develop original texts and new perspectives that support dialogue and understanding across borders.
15:00
-
18:00
Creative Writing: Co-operation, Leadership and Empathy
+2
ART
SEM
Content
Envisioning Europe’s Future Cities
How can Europe’s cities become the places where transition is governed and the future is built? Europe has entered a new phase: climate collapse is no longer a distant risk, but a reality to be governed. This studio builds systems literacy, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and democratic imagination among young professionals. Participants leave with a deeper understanding to act as bridge-builders across sectors, borders, and generations.
15:00
-
18:00
Envisioning Europe’s Future Cities
+1
STU
Content
Morning
Morning
Envisioning Europe’s Future Cities
How can Europe’s cities become the places where transition is governed and the future is built? Europe has entered a new phase: climate collapse is no longer a distant risk, but a reality to be governed. This studio builds systems literacy, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and democratic imagination among young professionals. Participants leave with a deeper understanding to act as bridge-builders across sectors, borders, and generations.
09:30
-
12:30
Envisioning Europe’s Future Cities
+1
STU
Content
Digital Sovereignty: Why Europe Needs It and How It Can Get It
If digital sovereignty is about the ability to say ‘yes’ to a digital future that aligns with one’s interests and values – and ‘no’ to a future that doesn’t – Europe currently lacks it. In this workshop, we examine why this is the case and why it matters, what can and what should be done about it, and which policies and politics can get Europe there.
09:30
-
12:30
Digital Sovereignty: Why Europe Needs It and How It Can Get It
+1
DEM
SEM
Content
Embodied Experiences of Democracy
In this studio, participants explore the political dramaturgy of emotions – where theatre meets sociology. Emotions are movements, words, and gestures that shape how we live together. The ways we stand, speak, and relate enact democratic order. Conversely, emotions we suppress in public to sustain control can quietly erode democracy itself. //INFO: This project has received funding from the European Commission under the HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions Grant, No 101132327.
09:30
-
12:30
Embodied Experiences of Democracy
+1
STU
Content
Science and Ethics
Can we separate science and ethics? Where do we draw the boundaries?? In Artificial Intelligence, fairness and accountability are inseparable from how systems learn and how they justify knowledge. Scientific choices are moral choices, and ethics depend on scientific assumptions. The seminar explores good scientific practice and scientific misconduct, including falsification and fraud in academic research.
09:30
-
12:30
Science and Ethics
+1
SEM
Content
Is Victory Possible in the 21st Century?
What does it mean to win? At what costs may victory be achieved? Are the antagonistic and violent practices and discourses of war and victory reconcilable with a sustainable peace? This seminar critically explores the concept of victory from Antiquity to today and specifically looks at the idea of victory in war. By incorporating moral, political, and cultural considerations, victory in the 21st century is reimagined.
09:30
-
12:30
Is Victory Possible in the 21st Century?
+1
SEC
SEM
Content
One Health Studio: Innovation, Sensing Future Potentials & New Questions
Global (One) Health demands more than incremental fixes. This studio shifts from reactive problem-solving to future-oriented innovation. Using sensing and reframing techniques, participants explore emerging potentials and questions in One Health. We challenge existing paradigms to co-create radical new questions and innovation pathways, equipping participants to proactively shape a resilient future.
09:30
-
12:30
One Health Studio: Innovation, Sensing Future Potentials & New Questions
+1
STU
Content
Hope and the Power to Shape our Future
How do we find the will to act when things seem hopeless? Because we are agents who care, our relationship to the future is driven by emotions like hope, anxiety, and despair – not mere feelings, but evaluative states that orient us toward action. Drawing on philosophy and the science of emotion, this interactive seminar invites you to explore how to harness these emotions, individually and collectively, to bring about the futures you value.
09:30
-
12:30
Hope and the Power to Shape our Future
+1
SEM
Content
Labs: Multi-Day Working Sessions
Labs are 3-day facilitated working sessions with a closed and well-selected group of 30 participants that has a joint purpose with the goal that this group, first, becomes a community of action, and second, finds answers to a larger, cross-cutting problem.
09:00
-
18:00
Labs: Multi-Day Working Sessions
CLI
DEM
FIN
SEC
LAB
Content
Noon
Afternoon
Afternoon
Stronger Together: The Power of the Ensemble.
This seminar will explore the ways in which many individuals can end up working as a cohesive team. Creating an effective and dynamic piece of theatre requires every actor to work seamlessly with the rest of the ensemble regardless of whether their part is major or minor. Acting students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London will share those parts of their training that enable this important connection.
15:00
-
18:00
Stronger Together: The Power of the Ensemble.
ART
SEM
Content
Capital in Motion: Understanding How Capital Moves the World
This seminar makes capital markets tangible. Participants act as investors, make decisions under uncertainty, and explore how capital shapes companies and Europe’s future. Simulation, expert insights, and discussion connect theory with real-world application.
15:00
-
18:00
Capital in Motion: Understanding How Capital Moves the World
+1
FIN
SEM
Content
Theatre as a Sanctuary: How Theatre Builds Confidence and Connection
Many actors are introduced to theatre when their parents send them to theatre workshops to overcome their shyness and gain confidence; they end up going on stage in front of hundreds of people. The stage is their place of safety. So, what is it about working together to create a piece of theatre that produces this feeling? This seminar, led by students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, will explore this question.
15:00
-
18:00
Theatre as a Sanctuary: How Theatre Builds Confidence and Connection
ART
SEM
Content
Activist Filmmaking: Telling Stories of Resistance and Hope
Ecological and social crises dominate the newsfeeds, pushing many people into apathy. How can artistic practices offer a way out? In the seminar, stories of resistance will be explored: Participants will learn about activist filmmaking, engage in dialogue about the narratives we are surrounded by, and create their own piece of hope to empower themselves and others.
15:00
-
18:00
Activist Filmmaking: Telling Stories of Resistance and Hope
+1
ART
SEM
Content
How Europe Winds
Air is essential yet often taken for granted, despite shaping movement, interaction, and perception. The posed question is not How Europe wins but winds — like a wind that opens spaces, brings together different voices, and creates new possibilities. Through movement, sound, and collective improvisation, participants are invited to explore ways of expressing themselves artistically. The session culminates in a shared performance, weaving together movement, sound, and expression.
15:00
-
18:00
How Europe Winds
+2
ART
SEM
Content
Dialogue across Divides: Designing Better Conversations for a Polarised World
Globally, polarisation is rising, yet confrontation isn’t inevitable. Constructive dialogue, curiosity over conflict, and finding common ground are choices we can make. This seminar explores the state of division and what it means for society. Through case studies, workshops, and interactive activities, we’'ll examine the forces shaping political disagreement, and how we can bridge divides to have more productive political conversations.
15:00
-
18:00
Dialogue across Divides: Designing Better Conversations for a Polarised World
+1
DEM
SEM
Content
Creative Writing: Co-operation, Leadership and Empathy
Europe is often treated as geographical entity rather than a community shaped by shared values, such as cooperation, leadership, and empathy. This seminar uses story, poetry, memoir, reflective essays, and collaborative projects to explore ideas of solidarity, responsibility, and belonging across cultures and generations. Participants develop original texts and new perspectives that support dialogue and understanding across borders.
15:00
-
18:00
Creative Writing: Co-operation, Leadership and Empathy
+2
ART
SEM
Content
Evening
Early morning
Morning
Morning
Digital Sovereignty: Why Europe Needs It and How It Can Get It
If digital sovereignty is about the ability to say ‘yes’ to a digital future that aligns with one’s interests and values – and ‘no’ to a future that doesn’t – Europe currently lacks it. In this workshop, we examine why this is the case and why it matters, what can and what should be done about it, and which policies and politics can get Europe there.
09:30
-
12:30
Digital Sovereignty: Why Europe Needs It and How It Can Get It
+1
DEM
SEM
Content
Hope and the Power to Shape our Future
How do we find the will to act when things seem hopeless? Because we are agents who care, our relationship to the future is driven by emotions like hope, anxiety, and despair – not mere feelings, but evaluative states that orient us toward action. Drawing on philosophy and the science of emotion, this interactive seminar invites you to explore how to harness these emotions, individually and collectively, to bring about the futures you value.
09:30
-
12:30
Hope and the Power to Shape our Future
+1
SEM
Content
Is Victory Possible in the 21st Century?
What does it mean to win? At what costs may victory be achieved? Are the antagonistic and violent practices and discourses of war and victory reconcilable with a sustainable peace? This seminar critically explores the concept of victory from Antiquity to today and specifically looks at the idea of victory in war. By incorporating moral, political, and cultural considerations, victory in the 21st century is reimagined.
09:30
-
12:30
Is Victory Possible in the 21st Century?
+1
SEC
SEM
Content
Science and Ethics
Can we separate science and ethics? Where do we draw the boundaries?? In Artificial Intelligence, fairness and accountability are inseparable from how systems learn and how they justify knowledge. Scientific choices are moral choices, and ethics depend on scientific assumptions. The seminar explores good scientific practice and scientific misconduct, including falsification and fraud in academic research.
09:30
-
12:30
Science and Ethics
+1
SEM
Content
Tyrolean Technology Brunch
An exclusive networking event as part of the Euregio Days 2026: take the opportunity to exchange ideas with representatives from business, academia, politics, and regional development on technology and digitalisation in Tyrol and Europe.
10:30
-
12:00
Tyrolean Technology Brunch
Network
Labs: Multi-Day Working Sessions
Labs are 3-day facilitated working sessions with a closed and well-selected group of 30 participants that has a joint purpose with the goal that this group, first, becomes a community of action, and second, finds answers to a larger, cross-cutting problem.
09:00
-
18:00
Labs: Multi-Day Working Sessions
CLI
DEM
FIN
SEC
LAB
Content
Noon
Afternoon
Afternoon
How Europe Winds
Air is essential yet often taken for granted, despite shaping movement, interaction, and perception. The posed question is not How Europe wins but winds — like a wind that opens spaces, brings together different voices, and creates new possibilities. Through movement, sound, and collective improvisation, participants are invited to explore ways of expressing themselves artistically. The session culminates in a shared performance, weaving together movement, sound, and expression.
15:00
-
18:00
How Europe Winds
+2
ART
SEM
Content
Dialogue across Divides: Designing Better Conversations for a Polarised World
Globally, polarisation is rising, yet confrontation isn’t inevitable. Constructive dialogue, curiosity over conflict, and finding common ground are choices we can make. This seminar explores the state of division and what it means for society. Through case studies, workshops, and interactive activities, we’'ll examine the forces shaping political disagreement, and how we can bridge divides to have more productive political conversations.
15:00
-
18:00
Dialogue across Divides: Designing Better Conversations for a Polarised World
+1
DEM
SEM
Content
Creative Writing: Co-operation, Leadership and Empathy
Europe is often treated as geographical entity rather than a community shaped by shared values, such as cooperation, leadership, and empathy. This seminar uses story, poetry, memoir, reflective essays, and collaborative projects to explore ideas of solidarity, responsibility, and belonging across cultures and generations. Participants develop original texts and new perspectives that support dialogue and understanding across borders.
15:00
-
18:00
Creative Writing: Co-operation, Leadership and Empathy
+2
ART
SEM
Content
Stronger Together: The Power of the Ensemble.
This seminar will explore the ways in which many individuals can end up working as a cohesive team. Creating an effective and dynamic piece of theatre requires every actor to work seamlessly with the rest of the ensemble regardless of whether their part is major or minor. Acting students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London will share those parts of their training that enable this important connection.
15:00
-
18:00
Stronger Together: The Power of the Ensemble.
ART
SEM
Content
Capital in Motion: Understanding How Capital Moves the World
This seminar makes capital markets tangible. Participants act as investors, make decisions under uncertainty, and explore how capital shapes companies and Europe’s future. Simulation, expert insights, and discussion connect theory with real-world application.
15:00
-
18:00
Capital in Motion: Understanding How Capital Moves the World
+1
FIN
SEM
Content
Theatre as a Sanctuary: How Theatre Builds Confidence and Connection
Many actors are introduced to theatre when their parents send them to theatre workshops to overcome their shyness and gain confidence; they end up going on stage in front of hundreds of people. The stage is their place of safety. So, what is it about working together to create a piece of theatre that produces this feeling? This seminar, led by students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, will explore this question.
15:00
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18:00
Theatre as a Sanctuary: How Theatre Builds Confidence and Connection
ART
SEM
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Activist Filmmaking: Telling Stories of Resistance and Hope
Ecological and social crises dominate the newsfeeds, pushing many people into apathy. How can artistic practices offer a way out? In the seminar, stories of resistance will be explored: Participants will learn about activist filmmaking, engage in dialogue about the narratives we are surrounded by, and create their own piece of hope to empower themselves and others.
15:00
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18:00
Activist Filmmaking: Telling Stories of Resistance and Hope
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ART
SEM
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Evening
Evening
Career Development: Future Skills in the Euregio Labour Market
The labour market in the Euregio Tyrol/South Tyrol/Trentino is changing rapidly due to new skill demands. This session brings together perspectives from higher education, vocational education, and practice to discuss Future Skills in an open dialogue. The exchange highlights regional qualification needs and outlines pathways for cross-border career development.
18:30
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20:00
Career Development: Future Skills in the Euregio Labour Market
Network
Into the Silence
A place of calm: Spiritual impulses from various religious and philosophical backgrounds invite you to contemplate and reflect. Inspiring initiators tell their stories, take you on a journey of the mind and initiate moments of genuine stillness.
19:00
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19:30
Into the Silence
Rituals
Open Air Concert: Alpbach Brass Band
On Fridays during the summer months, the Alpbach brass band gives an open-air concert in the village square. All Alpbach residents as well as national and international guests are warmly invited!
20:00
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20:30
Open Air Concert: Alpbach Brass Band
Rituals
Early morning
Morning
Morning
Between Security and Rights: Minority Governance in the Baltic States and Ukraine
Security concerns since 2022 have reshaped how minority issues are governed in the Baltic States and Ukraine. The session brings together regional perspectives to examine these shifts and their policy effects. It identifies risks of securitisation and outlines approaches to balance security and minority rights.
09:00
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12:00
Between Security and Rights: Minority Governance in the Baltic States and Ukraine
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Hope and the Power to Shape our Future
How do we find the will to act when things seem hopeless? Because we are agents who care, our relationship to the future is driven by emotions like hope, anxiety, and despair – not mere feelings, but evaluative states that orient us toward action. Drawing on philosophy and the science of emotion, this interactive seminar invites you to explore how to harness these emotions, individually and collectively, to bring about the futures you value.
09:30
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12:30
Hope and the Power to Shape our Future
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SEM
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Is Victory Possible in the 21st Century?
What does it mean to win? At what costs may victory be achieved? Are the antagonistic and violent practices and discourses of war and victory reconcilable with a sustainable peace? This seminar critically explores the concept of victory from Antiquity to today and specifically looks at the idea of victory in war. By incorporating moral, political, and cultural considerations, victory in the 21st century is reimagined.
09:30
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12:30
Is Victory Possible in the 21st Century?
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SEC
SEM
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Science and Ethics
Can we separate science and ethics? Where do we draw the boundaries?? In Artificial Intelligence, fairness and accountability are inseparable from how systems learn and how they justify knowledge. Scientific choices are moral choices, and ethics depend on scientific assumptions. The seminar explores good scientific practice and scientific misconduct, including falsification and fraud in academic research.
09:30
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12:30
Science and Ethics
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SEM
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Digital Sovereignty: Why Europe Needs It and How It Can Get It
If digital sovereignty is about the ability to say ‘yes’ to a digital future that aligns with one’s interests and values – and ‘no’ to a future that doesn’t – Europe currently lacks it. In this workshop, we examine why this is the case and why it matters, what can and what should be done about it, and which policies and politics can get Europe there.
09:30
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12:30
Digital Sovereignty: Why Europe Needs It and How It Can Get It
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DEM
SEM
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Labs: Multi-Day Working Sessions
Labs are 3-day facilitated working sessions with a closed and well-selected group of 30 participants that has a joint purpose with the goal that this group, first, becomes a community of action, and second, finds answers to a larger, cross-cutting problem.
09:00
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18:00
Labs: Multi-Day Working Sessions
CLI
DEM
FIN
SEC
LAB
Content
Afternoon
Afternoon
Dialogue across Divides: Designing Better Conversations for a Polarised World
Globally, polarisation is rising, yet confrontation isn’t inevitable. Constructive dialogue, curiosity over conflict, and finding common ground are choices we can make. This seminar explores the state of division and what it means for society. Through case studies, workshops, and interactive activities, we’'ll examine the forces shaping political disagreement, and how we can bridge divides to have more productive political conversations.
15:00
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18:00
Dialogue across Divides: Designing Better Conversations for a Polarised World
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DEM
SEM
Content
Creative Writing: Co-operation, Leadership and Empathy
Europe is often treated as geographical entity rather than a community shaped by shared values, such as cooperation, leadership, and empathy. This seminar uses story, poetry, memoir, reflective essays, and collaborative projects to explore ideas of solidarity, responsibility, and belonging across cultures and generations. Participants develop original texts and new perspectives that support dialogue and understanding across borders.
15:00
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18:00
Creative Writing: Co-operation, Leadership and Empathy
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ART
SEM
Content
Stronger Together: The Power of the Ensemble.
This seminar will explore the ways in which many individuals can end up working as a cohesive team. Creating an effective and dynamic piece of theatre requires every actor to work seamlessly with the rest of the ensemble regardless of whether their part is major or minor. Acting students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London will share those parts of their training that enable this important connection.
15:00
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18:00
Stronger Together: The Power of the Ensemble.
ART
SEM
Content
Capital in Motion: Understanding How Capital Moves the World
This seminar makes capital markets tangible. Participants act as investors, make decisions under uncertainty, and explore how capital shapes companies and Europe’s future. Simulation, expert insights, and discussion connect theory with real-world application.
15:00
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18:00
Capital in Motion: Understanding How Capital Moves the World
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FIN
SEM
Content
Theatre as a Sanctuary: How Theatre Builds Confidence and Connection
Many actors are introduced to theatre when their parents send them to theatre workshops to overcome their shyness and gain confidence; they end up going on stage in front of hundreds of people. The stage is their place of safety. So, what is it about working together to create a piece of theatre that produces this feeling? This seminar, led by students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, will explore this question.
15:00
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18:00
Theatre as a Sanctuary: How Theatre Builds Confidence and Connection
ART
SEM
Content
Activist Filmmaking: Telling Stories of Resistance and Hope
Ecological and social crises dominate the newsfeeds, pushing many people into apathy. How can artistic practices offer a way out? In the seminar, stories of resistance will be explored: Participants will learn about activist filmmaking, engage in dialogue about the narratives we are surrounded by, and create their own piece of hope to empower themselves and others.
15:00
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18:00
Activist Filmmaking: Telling Stories of Resistance and Hope
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ART
SEM
Content
How Europe Winds
Air is essential yet often taken for granted, despite shaping movement, interaction, and perception. The posed question is not How Europe wins but winds — like a wind that opens spaces, brings together different voices, and creates new possibilities. Through movement, sound, and collective improvisation, participants are invited to explore ways of expressing themselves artistically. The session culminates in a shared performance, weaving together movement, sound, and expression.
15:00
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18:00
How Europe Winds
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ART
SEM
Content
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