AGORA European Green Deal’s founding director Verena Ringler was invited to Radio Televisione Italiana’s „Future Forum“ radio show with Susanne Barta.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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? 

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.

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.

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).

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, 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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