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News & insights regarding our work.

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.

AGORA IN ACTION AT THE VIENNA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE

We tremendously enjoyed working with the International Commission on the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) in Vienna on an early-stage stakeholder scouting and visioning exercise. A productive process with Birgit Vogel, Executive Secretary and Ivan Zavadsky, former Executive Secretary, inter alia. Their vision: A healthier, safer, cleaner Danube. Did you know that the entire Danube River basin comprises 19 countries, making it the most international river basin in the world? 

TIME TRAVEL: CULTURAL HISTORY OF SUSTAINABILITY

From the origins of sustainability thinking and action to today's hands-on European project management: It has been great to join the European Studies track at UAS Burgenland and to work with an outstanding group of Masters Students since January this year.

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY ALLIANCES FOR FUTURE

An engaging evening with Gilles Pécoult, French Ambassador to Austria, convened by Gerda Füricht-Fiegl, Programme Director European Studies at UAS Burgenland. He speaks about France's European vision. He highlights President Emmanuel Macron's Signature project, the ambition to support 60 European University Alliances by mid-2024.

We are a Registered Trademark!

AGORA European Green Deal enters 2023 as a registered trademark with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). This concerns classes 41 (mainly services consisting of all forms of education or training) and 42 (scientific and technological services and research and design relating thereto; industrial analysis, industrial research and industrial design).

A MARSHALL PLAN FOR THE CLIMATE

Which lessons can we can draw from the Marshall Plan for the green transition in Europe? - This is what Verena Ringler discussed on stage with Irene Giner-Reichel of the Global Forum on Sustainable Energy, Wolfgang Petritsch, President of the Austrian Marshallplan Foundation, and Oliver Ruppel of University Graz, inter alia.

GREEN FILMS IN THE HEART OF EUROPE

Green films, nature films, and high-quality documentaries and narrative films on the theme of planetary care make for a vibrant, emerging field. An incoming generation of filmmakers has set out in recent years to venture into this and set new standards.

Ouverture to the European Forum Alpbach

Verena Ringler’s guest commentary in the quality daily newspaper, Wiener Zeitung zooms in on the international dynamics of the green transition theme.

SENIOR LECTURER ON SUSTAINABILITY & SOCIAL SCIENCES

We prepare an exciting and cutting-edge university course for the fall 2022 semester at the Management Center Innsbruck. Renown practitioners will join us, including Christina Riegler and Prof. Georgios Kostakos from Brussels.

New member of the Austrian Fundraising Association

Great news! The umbrella organisation for the non-profit sector in Austria decided expeditedly and positively on AGORA European Green Deal’s membership application in July 2022. The association, founded in 1996, serves and supports 330 members across the country.

Austria’s Economic Chamber recommends AGORA EGD

In its opening paragraph, the “European Green Deal – Think Tank tracker” of 7 July 2022 by the Austrian Economic Chamber wko.at recommends readers to follow the work of AGORA European Green Deal and specifically our live contribution at the 1st New European Bauhaus Festival.

AGORA European Green Deal at the Club of Venice 

The new Club of Venice’s magazine features our thoughts and practice on European Green Deal communication.

The daily “Tiroler Tageszeitung” reports about our Alpine Seed Stage 

The main regional daily newspaper, “Tiroler Tageszeitung”, devotes an entire page of its Sunday edition from 12 June 2022 to AGORA European Green Deal’s contribution to the first New European Bauhaus Festival.

Meet our speakers at the New European Bauhaus Festival!

Meet the policymakers and practitioners of our „Celebration of Soil, Seeds, and Senses“ at more than 2.000 meters above sea level. This Side Event of the 1st New European Bauhaus Festival is initiated and led by AGORA European Green Deal.

We go live during the Brussels Opening Ceremony of the New European Bauhaus Festival

AGORA European Green Deal is selected to join Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President, and other EU policymakers at 13.00 hours on 9 June.

Verena Ringler’s Cover Story in the corporate magazine of an insulation company

While #WEF22 puts the spotlight on the private sector’s responsibilities in the green transition, ISOCELLER’s brand-new edition zooms in on AGORA’s role and potential.

Verena Ringler is incoming Helmut Schmidt Fellow. 

AGORA European Green Deal’s director Verena Ringler has been awarded this year’s Helmut Schmidt Fellowship by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS) and ZEIT Stiftung. This allows her to expand her research on Green Transition Leadership across the Atlantic.

Our Celebration of Soil, Seeds & Senses

We have great news for you: we will be part of the first New European Bauhaus Festival. Follow our Celebration of Soil, Seeds and Senses!
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Memo to the German Government

Regions on their way to the European Green Deal. An analysis and recommendations of an early exploration in three Austrian federal states.
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Transition needs Transition diplomacy

A field study from Austria provides Germany’s newly elected government with ideas to take the fear out of the European Green Deal.