How can progress be actively created against the backdrop of a multidimensional world? "United in a Fragile World - Defining the Fineline between Progress and Improvement" focusses on the differentiation of both term in order to overcome current challenges and to build a better future.

This year's Trilogue Salzburg is focussing on trust and deals with the question how politics, business and culture can build up innovative ways of promoting understanding and relation management.

Mis- and disinformation, propaganda and manipulation have always been part of human communication – they are as old as the lies one is sometimes tempted to tell. 

The 17^th Trilogue Salzburg, hosted by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, will address the question whether democracy remains the uncontested and undisputed form of government as it has been postulated during the last decades.

Fighting a Ring of Fire or Building a Ring of Friends?

a Critical Requirement for Governance, Social Cohesion and Competitiveness

Creating a Culture of Innovation

 The Global Race for the World's Most Valuable Resource

New approaches to achieving a sustainable world economy - Do we need a “domestic policy” for our globalized world?