YKW Alumni

The Young Königswinter Alumni are past participants of the Jung Königswinter Conference. Seeking to build on this one-off experience and the many lasting friendships forged by this conference, past conference attendees founded the Young Königswinter Alumni.

Their first conference was held in March 1995 with participants attending key sessions of the Königswinter Conference parallel with their own programme of discussions and events. Further meetings of this kind took place in tandem with the Königswinter Conferences in Cambridge, Berlin, Edinburgh, Königswinter, Oxford, and Potsdam. In 2003, the Young Königswinter Alumni met in Brussels, a convenient location because of the increasing number of alumni based there and their involvement in the European policymaking process. 

In 2006, the annual conference took place in Istanbul, attracting around 80 participants who explored the question ‘Who are the Turks? Turkey’s place in Europe’. In 2007, the Young Königswinter Alumni Conference was held in Hamburg. It drew the largest number of alumni so far and confirmed the growing strength of the network. In addition to the annual conferences, smaller events are conducted by alumni on an informal basis in Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, London, and other cities. 

Links & Sponsors
Our activities are generously supported by a number of organisations which recognise the value of an ongoing, institutionalised dialogue between decision-makers and opinion-formers for international understanding.

Contact the Alumni
Did you attend the Young Königswinter Conference and have lost contact to the alumni network? Drop us an email at alumni(at)debrige.de and we will put you on the list.