AGORA’s founder was on stage with CERN Director
CERN = a premier example of peace-led innovation and cooperation across borders and boundaries. The centre + the planned Future Circular Collider embody + mean so much more than excellent science.
CERN reminds us that the impossible has often been the untried. That curiosity, openness, ambition and audacity boost life, resilience, and togetherness. Also innovation and dignity.
Eye-opening seminar day at the Seegrube – 28 June 2025
Early Bird? Register quickly for the EU Parcours Day on the Seegrube mountain, Innsbruck.
May 30, 2024 LEADERSHIP CRASH COURSE EU & SUSTAINABILITY
Are you a leader, visionary, or shaper of a team’s, organisation’s, or region’s future and can you converse in German?
European Affairs might not be your daily business, but you’re certainly interested in our common future?
Our bespoke and unconventional seminar day at 2,000 metres above sea level near Innsbruck might be the right format at the right time for you.
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.
