About

Haus Europa: For Those Who Feel the Future Calling

Haus Europa is a nonprofit association registered in Tux, Austria. It is dedicated to fostering innovation and leadership across business, civic, and public spheres; rooted in nature, openness, and purpose, and shaped by a growing team of initiators committed to turning ideas into action with impact.

What

We are not creating yet another conference, forum, or think tank.

The world already has enough talking. What it lacks are safe enabling environments where people come together not only to reflect, but to build and act.

Haus Europa is a Do Tank and a Catalyst Lab, a space where courageous leadership, ethical innovation, and pragmatic collaboration meet.

Our mission is to empower emerging innovators and future leaders – expanding beyond traditional innovation networks – to imagine, develop, and implement values-driven, practical solutions to the most pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges.

We provide structured programs, open events, and collaborative labs that nurture systemic thinking, intergenerational dialogue, and civic engagement.

Guided by the clarity of the mountains, we are building an international community in the heart of the Austrian Alps. We bring together people from diverse backgrounds, sectors, and countries to collectively rethink innovation, leadership, and care for the future.

Haus Europa fosters:

Transformative innovation through courage, clarity, and safe spaces
Democratized innovation by elevating diverse and overlooked voices
Tangible outcomes by combining strategic insight with real-world collaboration
Community-driven education and public discourse on ethical innovation, democratic resilience, and responsible leadership
International understanding and cooperation, based on shared values and inclusive dialogue

Why

Communities all around the world face a rapidly evolving global reality marked by profound demographic changes, significant aging populations, escalating climate emergencies, disruptive technological advances including artificial intelligence, shifting geopolitical tensions, declining social cohesion, and complex migration challenges.

As of January 1, 2024, the EU population was estimated at 449.3 million, with over one-fifth (21.6%) aged 65 years and over, a figure expected to reach 30.6% by 2050, significantly straining healthcare, pensions, and social systems (Eurostat, 2024). Globally, climate change is expected to displace up to 1.2 billion people by 2050, intensifying migration pressures and geopolitical instability (Institute for Economics & Peace, 2023). Technological disruption, particularly from AI, places approximately 27% of jobs in OECD countries at high risk of automation, with 60% of employees concerned their jobs might be replaced by AI within the next decade (OECD, 2023).

These realities require entirely new ways of thinking, organizing, and acting.

What brought us here will not take us forward. Too often, innovation has been confined to elite institutions and formal frameworks that fail to tap into the full richness of human creativity and lived experience. Despite a proliferation of conferences, events, workshops, and leadership programs, little has changed where it matters most.

We do not need more talking. We need more systemic thinking followed by doing – innovation implementation.

Haus Europa exists to offer a different response – one that empowers people from all walks of life to ask bold questions, think differently and systematically, and turn new ideas into implementable innovations with systemic high added value that serve the common good. Haus Europa fosters safe spaces where reflection leads to action, where ideas are not just discussed but also tested, and where collaboration across differences becomes a source of genuine transformation.

This is not about replicating what already exists – it is about building what doesn’t yet exist but urgently must.

At Haus Europa, we believe the challenges ahead demand responses that are as complex, creative, and courageous as the times themselves. That is the work we are here to do – together.

In a nutshell:

Haus Europa helps individuals and organizations across all sectors – business, public service, civil society, and the arts – turn innovation into real-world results by developing the human capabilities (supported by technology) and leadership behaviors that make change stick and shift the status quo.
Programs are delivered in a high-altitude Alpine environment, underpinned by a digital platform and community, with progress made visible through concrete artifacts and measurements.
Recognizing that around half of all innovation implementations fail, and that who innovates shapes what gets invented, the Haus Europa methodology systematically addresses the evidence-based failure factors across diverse contexts.
Haus Europa is globally connected: an associate member of CIVICUS (a global alliance of civil society), part of the Civics Innovation Hub network for civic educators, and a member of the Inner Development Goals (IDG) network—promoting skills for a sustainable future.

The entire story of Haus Europa, its purpose, and approach is described in its founding statement here.

Our Methodology — Four Phases of Deep Transformation

Haus Europa creates psychologically safe, enabling spaces where deep listening, courageous systemic thinking, and cross-generational innovation thrive.

I see — Systemic Awareness: Explore reality from multiple vantage points; gain altruistic perspectives; surface biases; map systems and understand yourself as part of larger wholes.
I think — Future-Ready Cognition: Build metacognitive habits; frame personal, civic, and collective needs in future contexts; develop capacity for paradoxical thinking.
We solve — Collective Intelligence: Move from insight to coordinated action; design solutions with multi-stakeholder input. This is where “I” becomes “we.”
We create — Systemic Implementation: Prototype, user-test, and scale sustainably within a supportive innovation ecosystem focused on systemic high added value.

Our work rests on five principles: fact-based pragmatism, radical incrementalism, inclusive innovation, adaptive leadership, and systemic results.

Programme Architecture

We combine high-altitude reflection with hands-on building, reflective thinking, and doing in equal measure.

Cohort Journeys: 6–12 months hybrid format, options for solo innovators (6-10 participants) and organizational teams (5-7 members), blended high-alpine residencies (7-14 intensive days in Tux), online labs, 1:1 mentoring.
Pulse Events: focused gatherings on specific themes/skills.
Planned Outputs: prototypes, pilots, open toolkits, portable micro-credentials and Haus Europa Certificate in Innovation Implementation & Leadership, and building a community of practice that pairs fresh perspectives with lived experience.
Timeline: Programs begin Q1 2025, with Alpine intensives starting April 2026.
Access: Programme fees with comprehensive scholarships available for underrepresented innovators.

Why Join as a Founding Partner and Member

Shape the agenda: name a cohort; co-brand key moments.
See solutions first: co-design focus areas; access the pipeline.
Develop talent: sponsor fellowships; place teams; tap the network.
Be in the room: roundtables in Tux, curated salons, advisory circle.
Access the campus: preferred use of our high-alpine base.
Track impact: regular briefs and outcome dashboards.

Turn urgency into opportunity.

Build the innovation capacity society needs now – around an open table.

Connect with us on our social media channels (links below) or email us at info@hauseuropa.org.

The Symbol Behind the Mission – Mountains and Houses in One: care for our home becomes care for our communities

The Haus Europa logo connects the majestic landscape of the Tyrolean Alps with our vision for innovation and societal transformation. The stylized mountain peaks recall our location near the Hintertux Glacier in the heart of the Alps, while simultaneously symbolizing the classical shape of house roofs – a deliberate play on our name “Haus Europa.”

This dual meaning is intentional: just as we care for our houses as places of living and wellbeing, we must also understand and care for our communities – and our world as a whole – as our shared home. The ascending lines represent not only mountain peaks and rooftops, but also our ambition to reach new heights in purpose-driven innovation and leadership.

Haus Europa expands the pool of innovators and supports them in successfully shifting the status quo on societal challenges. From the Tyrolean mountains, we create a space for transformative innovations, ensuring our collective “houses” – from local communities to our global home – remain places where people can flourish.