The Europa-Forum Wachau in the Göttweig Abbey

The Europa-Forum Wachau and the Salons offer you the opportunity to personally participate in the future of Europe.
We have a responsibility for the European idea, so we want to think ahead together with you.

Martin Eichtinger

Präsident des Europa-Forum Wachau

With the Europa-Forum Wachau we have an acknowledged European discussion forum which deals with current challenges in a common Europe. It is our concern that the citizens and our youth should also be strongly involved.

Johanna Mikl-Leitner

Governor
of Lower Austria

Europa-Forum Wachau

The Europa-Forum Wachau was established in 1995 on the occasion of Austria's accession to the EU. Since then, the aim has been to promote the topic of Europe and passionately communicate it to the citizens.

Since that time, 289heads of government, 39 ministers of foreign affairs, EU commissioners and over 12,000 representatives of the world of business, diplomacy, culture, politics and the media have attended the event at Göttweig Abbey.

Jean Claude Juncker, Viktor Orbán, Manfred Weber and Frans Timmermans have already been active participants in the Europa-Forum Wachau.

Salon Europa-Forum Wachau

The new format of the Europa-Forum Wachau was supplemented for the first time in 2019 with six civil dialogues "Salon Europa-Forum Wachau" in advance.

The Salon acts as a think tank for central European topics. Guests from politics as well as experts from business, technology, culture, science and the media discuss current social challenges. The Salon also serves as a forum for involving the public in the Europa-Forum Wachau.

Participants can vote on relevant topics using online voting software for their mobile phones. The most important statements will influence the Europa-Forum Wachau and will be discussed further. The salons will be supported scientifically by the Danube University Krems.