With the 6th issue of Visegrad Insight, we present our readers with one hundred stories of outstanding individuals and teams of individuals from new EU member states and some of their neighbours. They share the courage for innovation, the love of big ideas, and a potential for global outreach. Indeed, some of them are already successful and their work is already known around the world.
Can Visegrad be crowdfunded? The first-ever report on crowdfunding in the region – Olga Urbańska, Maria Staszkiewicz
A roadmap for a new era of growth in Central Europe – Wojciech Bogdan
Digital agenda – Dániel Bartha
The innovation performance of the Visegrad Group Claudio – Castro Quintas
Poland’s innovations – half empty, or half full? – Katarzyna Zachariasz
Startups, look to your neighbours! Why startups don’t network within the V4 and how to change it – Sara Koślińska
INTERVIEW: THE ART OF REINVENTION
The role of innovation in the transformation of political culture in Estonia. An interview with Toomas Hendrik Ilves by Wojciech Przybylski
INTELLIGENT MIND: PHILOSOPHER’S STONE
Changing frontiers – Shlomo Avinieri
Inventing the philosopher’s stone. An interview with Jerzy Buzek by Aureliusz Pędziwol
Monuments and other media – J. A. Tillman
CHALLENGERS: NEW EUROPE 100
Culture challengers – Anna Wójcik
VISEGRAD ABROAD: EXPORTING IDEAS
When the party rocks, it’s good news for democracy – Miriam Lexmann
France, Germany, Poland – a non-equilateral triangle – Eric Maurice
OPINIONS
Tough times ahead. Implications of the European elections for the V4 – Mark McQuay and Roderick Parkes
A world is over. Olaf Osica, director of the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), assesses the challenges and prospects for cooperation of the Central European countries. Interview by Wojciech Przybylski
ESSAY COMPETITION: YOUNG VISEGRAD
The ugly truth of project V4 – Eszter Hajdú
BOOKS: RE-CREATION
On identity and creativity. A conversation with Hungarian writers István Vörös, András Imreh, Péter Zilahy, and György Spiró, collected by Joanna Szczepanik
Book reviews by Marta Pató, Anna Gács, Zuska Kepplová, and Łukasz Saturczak
URBAN SMART CITY
A CEE-led Smart City vision – Anya Ogorkyewicz
ARTS: REVOLUTIONARY DESIGN
Inflatable Czech design – Tereza Kozlová
NEWUROPE100
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