Principal Objectives
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, Northern 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!
News
Intensive discussions about the future in the premises of Vienna Economic Forum
The Honorary Member of Vienna Economic Forum Dr. Sonja Sagmeister-Brandner, Author and Journalist, ZIB 2, ORF visited on 12 May 2021 the Secretary General of Vienna Economic Forum, Ambassador Dr. Elena Kirtcheva in the premises of Vienna Economic Forum.
In a "tour d‘horizon" many topics about future collaboration were discussed, among which also about geographic growth of Vienna Economic Forum on other continents as well.
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