Servus,
Warsaw.

Repping Austria.

Adrian

Stephanie

Veronica

David

Laura

Austria,
at a glance.

First proof.

25¢

The fastest way to understand Austrian policy is at the checkout: a price signal too clear to miss.

On-pack

Bottle + can

81.5% return

Pfand bottle and can with deposit-return label

Pfand is the proof.
The system is the story.

Once one everyday mechanism works, the question becomes why. In Austria, the answer is not a single law. It is a woven infrastructure of education, social partnership, housing, environment, and neutrality — built over decades, held together by trust.

Austria's social partners represented around one table

Sozialpartnerschaft.

Before policy becomes law, it usually becomes agreement. Employers, unions, and government operate less like rival camps and more like a standing negotiation architecture for the whole country.

1945

Institutionalised after WWII as a consensus architecture for wages, labour peace, and coordinated policy.

0

Major nationwide strikes since the 1970s, making negotiation itself the country's most durable operating system.

Dual
education.

KlimaTicket.

The same systems logic reaches mobility too: one pass, one country, one green choice made easy.

€3

Per day — whole country

270K+

Tickets sold in year one

Carrots over sticks. Make green the easy choice.

Vienna,
a renters' city.

Then the same logic reaches the city itself: affordability treated as infrastructure, not charity.

60%

Live in social housing

220K

Municipal flats

1920s

"Red Vienna" roots

€650

Average rent for social housing

Home is infrastructure.

Now it must modernise.

220,000 municipal flats.

200,000 limited-profit homes.

Not an icon building — a repeatable urban block: mid-rise density, shared green space, and rents designed to keep ordinary households inside the city.

FHWien der WKW.

1994

Founded

2,876

Students

15,946

Alumni

⅔

International

A practice-first school sitting inside the same Austrian pattern: business, public systems, and execution kept close together.

What travels.

Austria's lesson is not "copy our policies." It is build systems people can actually feel — infrastructure, trust, and cooperation aligned around everyday life.

01

Infrastructure

Systems that serve daily life

02

Trust

The social contract in action

03

Cooperation

Social partners, shared outcomes

04

Systems thinking

The lens that connects it all

What we want to test
in Warsaw

We arrive with one hypothesis: strong outcomes come from strong systems. In Warsaw, we want to see which parts travel, which stay local, and what Poland teaches back.

Approaches

Which social-enterprise approaches are portable across contexts

Impact

What creates impact when the political and institutional conditions differ

Reflection

What we can carry home without flattening the differences

Servus, Warsaw.

Repping Austria.

Austria,at a glance.

First proof.

Pfand is the proof.The system is the story.