Nicola Forster

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Nicola Forster (2018)

Nicola Forster (born March 29, 1985 ) is a Swiss politician . He is the founder of the think tank foraus , President of the Science et Cité Foundation , Co-President of the GLP of the Canton of Zurich and an entrepreneur.

biography

Nicola Forster is the eldest of three sons of a primary school teacher and of the school psychologist Jürg Forster. His great-grandmother Irma Schaichet came from Hungary as a concert pianist, his great-grandfather Alexander Schaichet came to Zurich from Russia as a conductor and violinist , where he founded the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Nicola Forster studied law in Zurich, Lausanne and Montpellier.

Even before graduation, he led the youth campaign for the eastward expansion of the free movement of persons with the EU. After graduating Forster had an internship contract with a law firm for 8500 francs a month in your pocket, but decided to borrow money from his parents to the 2009 foreign policy think tank foraus to start. Today foraus has around 1000 voluntary employees, fifteen permanent employees, and a global turnover of 1.2 million francs. In addition to the two offices in Zurich and Geneva, there are spin-offs in seven countries. In 2017 he was one of the founders of the State Laboratory , which made new methods and techniques available to public administration.

Forster advises ministries, foundations and think tanks on public participation projects. He is the founding curator of the Global Shapers Bern of the World Economic Forum , has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Science et Cité since 2018 and sits on the board of the Global Diplomacy Lab and the Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe . His main occupation are lectures - from TEDx to company events - as well as moderation at home and abroad

politics

After the SVP won its “Initiative against mass immigration” against bourgeois and left-wing parties, trade unions and business associations on February 9, 2014 , Forster was one of the co-founders of the liberal movement Operation Libero . On November 20, 2018, Forster was unanimously elected co-president of the Zurich GLP cantonal party together with Corina Gredig, Zurich municipal councilor. Forster and Gredig led the GLP to an election victory in the cantonal elections in March 2019 and declared that in the first half of 2019 the number of members had increased by a quarter to 1,100 people and the number of sympathizers to 2,400.

Politically, Forster no longer sees the contrasts between left and right, but between conservative and progressive , between representatives of an economic and social opening and representatives of a conservative attitude that opposes technological and international changes . This can be seen in the SP's fight against the framework agreement between Switzerland and the EU, for which Nicola Forster is promoting among opponents and allies. In 2019, Nicola Forster ran as a GLP candidate for the National Council with the support of Operation Libero .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Nicola Forster  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorothee Vögeli: The intrepid. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 11, 2015 ( nzz.ch ), accessed on November 20, 2018.
  2. ↑ Matthias Scharrer school psychologist Jürg Forster: "You talk too much about problems instead of strengths" In: Limmattaler Zeitung . January 2, 2018 ( limmattalerzeitung.ch ), accessed on December 10, 2018.
  3. ↑ Nicola Forster. The cosmopolitan forward thinker , on the homepage of the Swiss executive organization, undated, accessed on November 20, 2018.
  4. ↑ Matthias Daum: Think Tank: He wants to know, not believe. In: The time . February 10, 2011 ( zeit.de ), accessed on November 20, 2018.
  5. ↑ Othmar von Matt: Zurich start-up: “We want us to become Tinder or AirBnB of foreign policy”. In: Aargauer Zeitung . February 12, 2017 ( aargauerzeitung.ch ), accessed on December 11, 2018.
  6. ↑ The key was to get smarter minds on board. Interview with Mathias Morgenthaler, July 9 and 6, 2016, accessed on November 21, 2018.
  7. ↑ Susanne Wagner: This is how Nicola Forster leads the political movement Foraus. In: Handelszeitung . September 11, 2018 ( handelszeitung.ch ), accessed on November 21, 2018.
  8. ↑ Peter Blunschi: More innovation for the administration: Switzerland gets a state laboratory. in watson on January 23, 2017, accessed on November 21, 2018.
  9. ^ Meet the Founders: Nicola Forster. Article from May 6, 2017 on the State Laboratory's website, accessed on November 21, 2018.
  10. ↑ Annkatrin Kaiser, Verena Ringler: Towards open formats: How much co-determination can German foreign policy tolerate? In: IP-Die Zeitschrift. August 26, 2016 ( zeitschrift-ip.dgap.org ), accessed December 11, 2018.
  11. ↑ Nicola Forster on the World Economic Forum website , accessed on September 5, 2019.
  12. ↑ Media release Science et Cité. (PDF) Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Nicola Forster homepage crstl, oJ , accessed on November 21, 2018.
  14. ↑ Florian Schwab: Operation Bern. In: Weltwoche. August 29, 2019 nicolaforster.ch (PDF), accessed on September 5, 2019.
  15. ↑ TEDxZurich-Nicola Forster-says Switzerland needs more brainpower SCS food for thought from October 29, 2010, accessed on September 9, 2019.
  16. ↑ Nicola Forster on digitization. SCS food for thought: Nicola Forster from August 3, 2018, accessed on nicolaforster.ch on September 5, 2019.
  17. ↑ Nicola Forster in an interview with Thomas Haemmerli: Nicola Forster I: About his biography and his career. on youtube on September 5, 2019, accessed on September 9, 2019.
  18. ↑ Reto Flury: The second generation of the Zurich Green Liberals is now taking over. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 20, 2018 ( nzz.ch ), accessed on November 20, 2018.
  19. ^ Hannes Grassegger: Active service. How a bold group of young people fought the enforcement initiative. In: The magazine. March 5, 2016 ( desktop.12app.ch ).
  20. ↑ The cantonal GLP has a new double-headed party: Corina Gredig and Nicola Forster. In: Limmattaler Zeitung . November 21, 2018 ( limmattalerzeitung.ch ), accessed on November 20.
  21. ↑ Green liberals elect Corina Gredig and Nicola Forster as new co-presidium , press release of the green liberals canton Zurich from November 20, 2018.
  22. ↑ Left, greener, more feminine: the new Zurich Parliament. In: Regional Journal Zurich Schaffhausen from SRF. March 24, 2019, accessed August 16, 2019.
  23. ↑ Stefan Hotz: The green liberals in high: "We look forward to the task of building bridges". In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 24, 2019 ( nzz.ch ), accessed on August 13, 2019.
  24. ↑ Reto Flury: From the Jammertal to highs: The Zurich GLP wants to send at least four national councilors to Bern. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 28, 2019 ( nzz.ch ), accessed on August 29, 2019.
  25. ↑ Nicola Forster II: About the GLP and its political positions. Interview with Thomas Haemmerli on youtube from September 5, 2019, accessed on September 9, 2019.
  26. ↑ Othmar von Matt, Raffael Schuppisser: Founder of the foreign policy think tank Foraus: Switzerland is ripe for new ideas. In: Aargauer Zeitung . July 31, 2017 (Interview: aargauerzeitung.ch ), accessed on November 20, 2018.
  27. ^ Zoff about the framework agreement - young “Europa-Turbos” are disappointed by the left. Contribution by Georg Humbel to the TV show Rundschau on January 16, 2019, accessed on January 16, 2019.
  28. ↑ Tobias Gafafer: The "Erasmus Generation" has grown up - and wants to help shape foreign policy. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 12, 2019 ( nzz.ch ), accessed on August 13, 2019.
  29. ↑ Bilanz Rating, Digital Shapers 2019 , accessed on September 27, 2019
  30. ↑ Nicola Forster: Digital Shaper , accessed on September 27, 2019.
  31. ↑ Nicola Forster. The cosmopolitan forward thinker accessed on September 5, 2019.
  32. ↑ Nicola Forster, ashoka.org, accessed on September 5, 2019.
  33. ^ Stiftung Mercator. Fellows accessed September 5, 2019.
  34. ↑ Top 99 under 33 Foreign Policy Leaders on the IHEID homepage, accessed on September 5, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Forster, Nicola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (GLP)
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1985