Tiger Shark. Image by Kevin Bryant, Flickr.
By Daniel Pauly.
From August 17 to 23, I was in the village of Alpbach in the Austrian Alps, which is, since September 1945 (!), home to an annual gathering of scientists, politicians and other personalities whose mission is to think about European unity, and to make it stronger.
The ‘European Forum Alpbach’ (EFA), as this event is now called, also includes a week during which about 500 people (selected from over 7000 applicants) from European and other countries – PhD students, postdocs, NGO leaders and others – join different seminars to study various topics pertinent to European economic or scientific policies.