Innovative Strategies for Europe's Future
| In June 2007, the LCF and the University of Augsburg jointly organized a conference that should help find ways to make Europe reach it's goals from the Lisbon Agenda. |  Horst Hanusch and Joseph Bigio with the conference poster |
 Gunnar Eliasson, Horst Hanusch, Pier-Paolo Saviotti and Markus Ferber | Pier-Paolo Saviotti and Markus Ferber stressed in their keynote addresses how the Lisbon Agenda and innovative ideas are at the heart of making Europe fit for the next decades in this globalised world. We all heard, that this is not a short term exercise, but a long run struggle, which we cannot choose not to have, but have to face up to, and which is not necessarily bad but offers huge chances and will likely see Europe come out as a winner. |
| "Energy meets Ecology: Future Strategies for Europe" Furthermore, we saw a very lively debate concerning our energy supply over the next years and decades. The audience took a particular interest in asking questions about our sources of energy in a traditional and in an innovative way. We learned many interesting facts, thoughts and ideas that can show us how to combine challenges in the fields of energy and ecology without forgetting the economics behind it. |  Andreas Pyka giving his speech |
 Benedikt Fehr | A Common Financial Market: The Future Call for Europe? When we gathered on Friday morning, five distinguished experts from financial fields gave us an insight on the currently ongoing changes in the market and its consequences and effects on the financial structures in Europe and beyond. The LCF will keep offering our ideas on how to advance the European financial market to best support innovation and thus the rise of our standard of living and the future of our children. |
| A European Cure for National Health Care Systems? Lastly, we enjoyed a very interesting and fruitful debate on the harmonization of the national health care systems. It was made clear, that this is probably one of the most difficult areas since many national fears and hesitations have to be overcome to find a solution that everyone can agree on. Nevertheless, we are hoping that the LCF's input can help preparing the way towards a better adapted system that will serve us European citizens better. |  Volker Barkmann giving his speech |