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Tonight’s Freiblickinstitut debate, Is solidarity in Europe fading?, has now finished, but we’ll be back with a live debate from Warsaw on the 8th October. For people who missed the debate, a full audio recording is now available on the event page and video highlights will be uploaded in the near future.

Ursula Baatz is a philosopher, journalist and author. Following her studies, Ursula originally worked as a teacher of religious education, before moving onto the University of Vienna’s philosophical and Evangelical-theological faculties, following the acquisition of her doctorate in philosophy. From 1974-2011, she worked for the ORF [Austrian State Broadcaster], primarily at the radio station Ö1, where she was responsible for…

Sandra Monterroso is a Guatemalan artist and designer, currently residing in Vienna, Austria, where she is undertaking a PhD in at the Viennese Akademie der bildenden Künste [Academy of Fine Arts]. Known for her performance art, as well as her work in video art, installations and mixed media, she looks to relate her work to questions about power structures, gender…

Tally Einav is an executive officer in the Office of the Deputy to Director General Mr. Taizo Nishikawa at UNIDO [United Nations Industrial Development Organisation]. Her office co-ordinates and spearheads the UNIDO’s efforts to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals process and to promote the UNIDO ISID [Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development] mandate. Information valid as of autumn 2015.

Petra Dannecker is the head of the Vienna University’s Department of Development Studies, where she also works as a professor of development sociology. Before working in Vienna, Petra studied in Konstanz and Bielefeld, starting with political science, English and sociology and ultimately writing a development sociology doctoral thesis on Markt, Staat und Ethnizität [The Market, State and Ethnicity]. Petra has…

Daniel Bacher is a project officer and a legal advisor working at Dreikönigsaktion – Hilfswerk der Katholischen Jungschar [the development co-operation agency of the Catholic Children’s Movement in Austria] in Vienna. Daniel works on the Dreikönigsaktion’s Ghana programme where he is in charge of providing legal advice and organising networking projects in Africa. Information valid as of autumn 2015.

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Live streamed from the Vienna Humanities Festival, 24.09 // Live aufgenommen beim Vienna Humanities Festival, 24.09 (in German / auf Deutsch!) In an increasingly sectarian environment, the former senior FPÖ politician and founder of the Liberal Forum, Heide Schmidt, speaks to the managing director of the European Forum Alpbach​, Philippe Narval, about her own political past, the need for serious…

Samira Shackle is a predominantly freelance British journalist, writing mainly on politics, terrorism and gender, with a particular focus on the Indian subcontinent. She writes frequently for the New Statesman, The Guardian, The Times, Vice and Deutsche Welle and her work has also appeared in Al-Jazeera, the Independent, Prospect, Monocle, Grazia, Dawn (Pakistan), the Express Tribune (Pakistan) and other outlets.…

Christian Moos heads the European and International business division of the Deutscher Beamtenbund [German Civil Service Federation] and works in an unpaid facility as the general secretary of Europa Union Deutschland. Before entering his current roles, he worked for a member of the German Bundestag and fulfilled different roles within the Deutscher Beamtenbund, first in its Brussel’s office, then as…

Daniel Trilling is the editor of the New Humanist magazine and has reported extensively on refugees at Europe’s borders. His work has been published by The Guardian, Al Jazeera, the London Review of Books, Newsweek, the New Statesman and many more outlets. In 2014, his work was shortlisted for an Amnesty media award and his first book, Bloody Nasty People:…

Ece Temelkuran is one of Turkey’s best-known journalists and political commentators. She graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law in 1995 and has been a journalist since 1993. She published her first book (Bütün Kadınların Kafası Karışıktır (Women are all Confused)) in 1994 and, until recent political upheaval caused her to lose her job, she had written columns for Milliyet…