Promoting regional economic cooperation has been the goal of Vienna Economic Forum since its foundation in 2004, and we are proud that the economic cooperation between entrepreneurs from the member countries of Vienna Economic Forum - Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine - has developed successfully over all these years.

Among the founding members of the Vienna Economic Forum are some of the most renowned Austrian companies and industrialists. The Prime Ministers of the states of the region are, together with the Austrian Federal Chancellor, Members of the Patronage Committee of Vienna Economic Forum. All accredited ambassadors in Austria of the VEF- Members countries take part in the VEF- activities as Members of the Ambassadors Committee. To the organs of Vienna Economic Forum also belong the Honorary Committee and the Cultural Committee of the countries of the region of Vienna Economic Forum.

Vienna Economic Forum, which has been granted the Status of an International Non-governmental Organization and the Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), is constantly growing and developing.

Since 2015, Vienna Economic Forum has also been listed in the Transparency Register of the European Parliament and the European Commission.

In all these years, Vienna Economic has remained true to its founding goals:

• To popularize and promote investment opportunities in the region from the Adriatic to the Black Sea.
• To provide impulses and, based on research, the joint projects required in the region for short-term, medium-term and long-term realisation, and promoting their implementation
• Becoming a place of definition, encounter, and of realising the public and private interests in connection with the various projects in the region as part of a united Europe.

These goals incorporate the vision that led to the creation of the VEF in 2004: to follow a strategy that contributes to economic cooperation and development of the VEF member countries as a region that is growing together, a “VEF economic area”!

The implementation of this strategy is always in focus and determines the planning and execution of all the work of the Vienna Economic Forum team over the years!

Novomatic AG chosen as one of the most valuable brands in Austria

Vienna Economic Forum is pleased to be able to inform about the further successes of the VEF Cooperation partner NOVOMATIC AG, represented on the VEF Board by DI Ryszard Presch as VEF Vice-president.

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Vienna Economic Forum - Cooperation partner NOVOMATIC AG with a successful third NOVOMATIC – Company Day

Vienna Economic Forum (VEF) is pleased to inform about the great response at the third NOVOMATIC Company Day and to congratulate on this successful and very important day for the employees!

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Intensive talks about the future at the BAN KI-MOON CENTRE for Global Citizens in Vienna

On 13. June, Ambassador Dr. Elena Kirtcheva, Member of the Board and Secretary General of Vienna Economic Forum, visited the former Federal President of the Republic of Austria, Dr. Heinz Fischer (2004-2016), Patron of Vienna Economic Forum, for a working meeting at the premises of the BAN KI-MOON CENTRE for Global Citizens in Vienna.

During an intensive exchange of ideas, the challenges of the time, revealing regional, European and global values of cooperation, were discussed.

Public Law, EU Law and Public International Law students from Law School Hamburg for an internship visit at Vienna Economic Forum

After the break due to the pandemic, Prof. Dr. Jörn Axel Kämmerer, Head of the Department for Public Law, Public International and EU Law at Bucerius Law School Hamburg, once again organized an internship trip to Vienna with a group of his students.

In the Vienna Economic Forum (VEF) premises, on 19 May 2022, the students in a very interested and engaged manner discussed various aspects of international law with the VEF Secretary General Ambassador Dr. jur. Elena Kirtcheva. Furthermore, the founding of Vienna Economic Forum and its development as an International Non-Governmental Organization (International NGO), as well as the possibilities of further development as a real International Organization (IO) based in Vienna – which is also a special topic of Professor Dr. Kämmerer’s teaching – were debated.

The lively academic discussion took place in a very friendly atmosphere, determined by a thirst for knowledge, for which the Secretary General Dr. Kirtcheva thanks Prof. Dr. Kämmerer very much.

The two sides look forward to possible future joint activities.

Talks about the future with the President of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye Investment Office Mr. Ahmez Burak DAGLIOGLU at Vienna Economic Forum

After 2-days of successful events in Salzburg and Vienna on economic developments and economic opportunities in Turkey, the President of Invest in Türkiye Investment Office Mr. Ahmet Burak DAGLIOGLU, Member of the Board of Vienna Economic Forum, visited the Vienna Economic Forum premises at Prinz Eugen Straße 58, in the Vienna’s 4th district, on 27 April 2022 to discuss future cooperation.

During the intensive exchange of ideas, the Investment Office President Mr. Ahmet Burak DAGLIOGLU, a long-standing VEF Cooperation partner and Member of the VEF Board and Ambassador Dr. Elena Kirtcheva, Secretary General of Vienna Economic Forum, spoke about new impulses for further and even more active collaboration.

The forthcoming Vienna Economic Talks- Istanbul Meeting 2022 that are to be held on 16-17 May 2022, the 4th Istanbul event through the years that the two parties are organizing together were also the topic of the meeting.

 

The artistic program can be found here.