Spring 2024

Welcome to the Alpine Fellowship Journal for Spring 2024.

So far for us, 2024 has been all about the ‘new’. After a wonderful 2023, we leapt into the new year new ideas, new inspiration and, most importantly, new prizes. We announced our new theme and we found a new venue for our symposium.

There’s a lot going on, so here’s a quick roundup and a look ahead to the rest of the year.

Enjoy!

The Alpine Fellowship

2024 Theme

Selecting a theme each year is a delicate art. It must be specific enough to inspire, but not so specific that it begins to close down possibilities. It should be universal enough to appeal across disciplines and countries, but not so universal that it is vague. It should be current and speak to our times, but not so current that it will date quickly.

The theme for 2024 is Language. A theme with which, it’s likely, we can all relate in one way or another. Whether it’s the spoken languages that we use to communicate across distance, eras and cultures, or the language suggested by different art forms and modes, this theme feels relevant and alive with possibilities.

We’re busy curating a symposium programme of experts and thought-leaders who can speak uniquely and insightfully to this topic, and look forward to sharing the content on our YouTube Channel later in the year.

For now, to learn more about our theme, please click the link below:

Alpine Fellowship Symposium 2024

After a wonderful experience at Fjallnas in 2023, a venue perfectly suited to our theme of Flourishing, we were on the lookout for somewhere that could compete.

We found it in the heart of Tuscany, a part of the world famous for art, writing, culture and history.

Fattoria Casamora is abour 45-minutes from Florence, nestled in the stunning Chianti hills. For a multi-disciplinary arts organisation like us, this cradle of the European renaissance is the perfect landing spot.

Find out more about the venue on the link below:

The 2024 Prizes

Our prizes have always been at the heart of what we do. It’s our way of supporting talented artists, poets, philosophers, writers and theatremakers around the world, by giving them much-needed financial support and the oppurtunity to learn, collaborate and network at our annual symposium.

New for 2024, we launched The Music Prize to support talented composer/performers, and the Refugee Scholar Prize, which aims to help academics and students continue their careers and studies in their new home country.

This year, we had an overwhelming response to our prizes, with many of the prizes achieving record numbers of submissions from all over the world.

We’ll be announcing the winners very soon, so keep your eyes peeled (and consider following us on Instagram), and to learn more about our prizes, please click the link below.

Alpine Fellowship at the United Nations Global Refugee Forum 2023

At the end of 2023, we finalised plans to launch the Alpine Fellowship Refugee Scholar Prize. This new prize would offer financial support to refugees to help enable them to continue their academic careers in their new home country.

This prize, offered in partnership with Bard College Berlin, was subsequently pledged to the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees, as a Multistakeholder Pledge aimed at achieving 15% enrolment by 2030 to expanding refugee access to higher education and self-reliance

To celebrate this pledge and to learn more about the subject, we attended the United Nations Global Refugee Forum held from 13-15th December 2023, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Over 4,000 participants attended the Forum including 168 governments and 427 organizations.

It was an incredible gathering and a wonderful learning and networking oppurtunity, and we look forward to welcoming our first Refugee Scholar Prize winners to our symposium this year.

To learn more about United Nations Global Compact on Refugees or to see more pledges, please click the link below:

That’s all for now…

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The Alpine Fellowship

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