Austria's Commitment to the 2030 Agenda

ACTIVE ON NATIONAL LEVEL
DIALOGUE WITH CIVIL SOCIETY
Active involvement
The website “Our Europe. Our Future”
(eu-zukunftskonferenz.at), conceptualised
by the Austrian Federal Chancellery,
provided in-depth information on the
“Conference on the Future of Europe” on
9th May 2021. With 1,505 contributions on
the multilingual digital platform of the
conference at: futureu.europa.eu (Time
frame: 19th April 2021 until 9th May 2022)
Austria belonged to the most active countries
and placed seventh among 27 EU
member states.* Most of the ideas brought
up on the digital platform focused on the
areas: EU in the world, democracy, migration
and climate change.
* This is measured in terms of population size (per
capita). Source: EU Zukunftskonferenz | Aktuelles (euzukunftskonferenz.at)
Expertise in “future labs”
In Austria, events regarding the “Conference
on the Future of Europe” were held
on average every two days from 9th May
2021 to 9th May 2022. About one third of
the events and activities were addressed
to young people. For example, the “Future
labs” are particularly relevant to the implementation
of the SDGs: The aim of the
format launched by Federal Minister Karoline
Edtstadler, was to actively involve the
high-level experts from the areas, such as
industry and economy, arts and culture,
research and science in the debate on the
future development of the EU and generate
specific proposals. You can find a detailed
overview of the events at
www.eu-zukunftskonferenz.at
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