2023-08-17 20:00:28
Innsbruck (OTS) – Founded in 1945, the European Forum is of national and international importance today. But outside of Alpbach, the village of thinkers in Tyrol is not very well established. A critical analysis is necessary, also in the state of Tyrol.
Every year at the European Forum Alpbach, questions of the time are discussed and interdisciplinary solutions are sought between science, business and politics. Networking makes Alpbach what it is. At the same time, the university weeks with hundreds of scholarship holders from all over the world, strongly promoted by the former forum president and ex-EU Commissioner Franz Fischler, promote scientific and political dialogue: thinking ahead and reflecting. Of course, the two weeks at the end of the summer are also a show run by local politicians, who publicly state their political positions for the autumn once morest the backdrop of a beautiful mountain backdrop. After all, sales is everything.
In addition, Fischler wanted to anchor the European Forum more firmly in the country and among the population, without forgoing the necessary internationality. He was only mediocre in that because the academic aura dominates too much and people outside of Alpbach have no access to it. Maybe that’s not what you want. That’s why the bitter realization that the village of thinkers is one that would like to stay “to themselves” during the 14 days is almost inevitable. Which brings us to the Tyrol Day.
Fischler brought it up to date in terms of content and positioned it closer to the forum. According to the motto “Think regionally, act globally”. Since last year, however, the “Tyrol Day” has been given much thought. Quite controversial behind the scenes between the forum management under Andreas Treichl and the state of Tyrol. Specifically, the question is how much Tyrol is still possible in Alpbach. And how the Forum can radiate more broadly beyond the Alpbachtal. When Governor Anton Mattle speaks of the need to maintain and further develop the added value of the forum in the long term, this includes exactly these questions.
The “Tyrol Day” should be the door opener for this, Mattle would like to consciously reduce the gap between the university and the non-academic world. This synthesis has hardly been successful so far, but it would naturally create breadth. As far as tradition is concerned, opinions can be divided. But one thing is for sure: the sales of the European Forum live primarily from the pictures of the “Tyrol Day”. From the impressive panorama, the mountains and the spruced up flower village, the riflemen and the music. To reduce everything to that would of course be petty and narrow-minded. However, ruling that out is a fatal mistake.
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