NOMINATED! VOTE FOR THE MINERVA PRIZE UNTIL 21 MARCH
“As a networker in the background, she fights for sustainability, the European idea and, as a consequence, for the European Green Deal,” reads Verena Ringler’s nomination for the MINERVA Award from Sheconomy – die neuen Seiten der Wirtschaft – With just one click you can vote until 21 March and support Verena Ringler.
South Tyrol Radio Show on the EU Green Deal
AGORA European Green Deal’s founding director Verena Ringler was invited to Radio Televisione Italiana’s „Future Forum“ radio show with Susanne Barta.
EUNIC, IUCN, ARTE at 22nd Nature Film Festival
Oscar-nominee Christian Berger awarding his Special Prize for cinematography, the 3rd Wild Women Award for female directors, and a dozen more award winners from around the globe!
An Alpine Valley’s Dark Sky Ambitions
Have you ever seen a myriad of stars dotting the sky, and the milky way softly stroking through? This experience has many positive effects to human health, and to the life of animals and plants. Tyrol’s Kaunertal now aims to become Austria’s second certified Dark Sky Area after the Attersee-Traunsee region.
BRINGING DIPLOMACY’S TOOLKIT HOME TO EU REGIONS!
At Austria’s Foreign Ministry’s annual Cultural Forum in Vienna, Verena Ringler held a keynote on practical steps towards a Culture of Regeneration. She underlined that international diplomacy, including cultural diplomacy, provides over a trove of methods and approaches to give conflicts and change a space and place, and to find ways forward with words rather than weapons.
VISITING FELLOW WITH GMFUS‘s BRUSSELS INNOVATION HUB
As a Fellow with the Brussels Innovation Hub and Cities Team of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS), Verena Ringler discusses and devises the links between Transatlantic and G20 climate and diplomacy efforts, and place-based climate and nature transition networks. She looks particularly at the South African G20 Presidency in 2025.
WHY BIODIVERSITY IS CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
In the Podcast conversation with strategy and communications expert Thomas Goiser, Verena Ringler elaborated (in German) on the linkages between biodiversity protection and European strategy and security policy. The new German Security Strategy from late spring 2023 for instance spells out the German government’s commitment towards swift implementation of the planned EU Nature Restoration Law.
THE BEAUTY OF THE EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL
At the Summer School South Tyrol (Südtirol, Alto Adige), Verena elaborated on the European Green Deal’s logic, elements, and meaning. She underlined the „sui generis“ character of the EGD as a grand political project that spans over generations and encompasses all spheres of society and all sectors of the economy. A particular emphasis was placed on the relevance for local networks and citizens.
LECTURE AT SAIS EUROPE – WATCH NOW!
Verena Ringler was honored and humbled to deliver the Kathryn Knowles Women in International Affairs Lecture on 23 March, hosted by Professor Michael Leigh. Under the title, “Rising to the Task of Leadership: A European Perspective”, Verena invited today’s and tomorrow’s decision-makers to explore and unlock three frontier arenas of leadership in the European and international landscape.
HORIZON EUROPE, HERE COMES AGORA!
We are honored and energized to join the national “Mission Action Group – A Soil Deal for Europe”. This is a key mission within the Horizon Europe framework programe. Last year, we celebrated “Soil, Seeds and Senses” on an Alpine peak. Now, we involve ourselves in local, national and European networks on soil quality.