How Can Culture Advance Inclusive Leadership, Shape Policy, and Promote Social Justice?

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Our Programs

These programs explore how culture in all its forms can bridge diverse perspectives, amplify underrepresented voices, and inspire collective action toward a more equitable and just world.
 


Our Themes

Inclusive Leadership

Developing diverse, values-driven leaders who reflect the societies they serve and expand access to power and participation. 

Culture as Catalyst

Championing culture as a force that bridges divides, transforms mindsets, and reimagines what shared progress can look like. 

Participation and Voice

Affirming every community’s right to visibility, participation, and voice in shaping cultural and civic life. 

Reimagining Systems

Exploring how cultural, civic, private, and public institutions can collaborate to build systems that are more equitable, sustainable, and accountable. 

Creative Imagination

Recognizing the power of artists and cultural practitioners to envision alternatives, spark dialogue, and move societies toward justice. 

Bridging and Belonging

Building empathy, understanding, and shared purpose across differences to foster trust, inclusion, and collective imagination for better solutions in an interconnected world. 



Latest Insights

Culture Testimonial
The Value of Each Story: Researching Fair Migration Policies in Austria
Salzburg Global Fellow Tanishka Murthy reflects on how the Public Policy New Voices Europe Fellowship guided her qualitative research leadership on migration and visa policies
Jun 15, 2026
Culture Opinion
How Corruption Is Exacerbating the Climate Crisis
Salzburg Global Fellow Wahidullah Azizi on why mitigating corruption risks in climate finance is critical to effective climate action
May 28, 2026
Culture Update
Coming Together To Rethink Cultural Institutions, Infrastructure, and Investment
Fellows aim to redefine how culture is valued and sustained to build more connected, equitable, and resilient cultural ecosystems
Apr 08, 2026
Culture Update
Choose Your Own Adventure: A Strategic Framework for Narrative Building
Salzburg Global Fellows have developed a tool for designing empathy-driven narrative interventions capable of bridging divides in pluralistic societies
Mar 30, 2026
Culture Update
Connecting, Collaborating, and Leading at the Creative Bureaucracy Festival
Fellows of the Public Policy New Voices Europe program brought fresh perspectives to Berlin’s international gathering of public sector innovators
Mar 20, 2026
Culture Opinion
Beyond Contestation: Climate Justice Across Continents
What debates about Indigeneity in Africa can learn from Latin American Indigenous-led climate justice movements
Mar 16, 2026
Culture Update
Welcoming Cohort 5 of Public Policy New Voices Europe
28 emerging leaders and change agents from across Europe will explore what it takes to steer technology, society, and governance in the right direction, in a digital age
Mar 11, 2026
Culture Update
Announcing the First Cohort of the Asia Policy Leadership Forum
Leaders and changemakers from across Asia will address the opportunities and challenges at the intersection of technology, society, and governance
Feb 25, 2026
Culture Update
“Who Do You Think You Are?”: Beyond Fragmentation: Rebuilding Trust and Cohesion in European Democracy
In the Henry Brandon Memorial Lecture, Daniel Sachs invites us to ask what role we each play in renewing democracy
Feb 23, 2026

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