Publications

The ERSTE Foundation Tipping Point Talks 2019 – Possibility | Audacity

Editor: Verena Ringler
Publisher: ERSTE Foundation, Vienna
Content: 168 pages
ISBN: 978-3-902673-13-8
Year: 2020

The Tipping Point Talks present ERSTE Foundation’s contribution to the 200th anniversary of the savings bank idea in Austria, curated and realised by Verena Ringler. In 2019, ERSTE Foundation welcomes great thinkers, researchers and pioneers of action from around the globe to reflect on and cross-fertilise each other’s thinking and to embrace an urgent moment of responsibility.

The ERSTE Foundation Tipping Point Talks 2019 – Possiblity | Audacity publication is a retrospective which covers the second two topics with contributions by Marietje Schaake (Possibitlity) and Felwine Sarr (Audacity).

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Florian Bauer

Director Social Finance, Sustainability and Innovation
Since 2023, Florian Bauer has been responsible for social finance, sustainability and social innovation at ERSTE Foundation. Prior to this role, Florian worked in the NGO & Social Entrepreneurship sector for more than 13 years. He led the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), an international multilateral NGO that works to accelerate market-based deployment of renewable energy and energy efficient systems in developing countries, and was Managing Director & COO of the Impact Hub Vienna. From 2020-2023, Florian established strategic alliances with key partners and helped to create innovative semantic technology solutions at Semantic Web Company (SWC), a leading IT company in semantic AI solutions.