Klaus Schönberger and Ute Holfelder from the cultural analysis division of the University of Klagenfurt, together with Barbara Maier who represents the University in the public sphere are leading the University of Klagenfurt's participation in Echoes. As cultural anthropologists they research cultural heritage, folklore & European Ethnology, combining ethnography with artistic research.

The University of Klagenfurt is a critical research hub in the Alp-Adriatic region, with over 10700 students from 83 countries. 4 faculties cover Interdisciplinary Studies, Humanities, Technical Sciences and Management & Economics. These are connected by 7 transdisciplinary research clusters, eg sustainability, education & visual culture. The University of Klagenfurt in general & the Humanities faculty in particular encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, promoting multilingualism & intercultural education, particularly with regard to the local Slovenian minority. The institute for culture, literature & musicology (ICLM) combines languages, cultural theory & cultural management.

The university will focus on echoes in the Görtschitztal region of Carinthia in the wake of the catastrophic events leading up to & ensuing from the poisoning of the landscape in 2014 through chemical waste from a cement factory. Artists & researchers will investigate the repercussions not just for the landscape but particularly for the inhabitants of the region in an academic & artistic series of encounters with the local population. The ethnographic aspect will focus on the inhabitants' self-perception in their native environment, using "selfies" & interviews to explore layers of identity. Artists from the network partners' groups will be invited to explore the landscape, creating new work based on a view from "outside", looking into an affected region & its people, carrying their echoes on in artworks. Exhibitions will be presented in partner countries & the results published in the project book. Focus:  audience participation; art mobility; interdisciplinarity; socio-cultural catalyst.

Zahra Mani & Karin Schorm founded Mani d.o.o. in 2005.

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Working in the Istrian peninsula, Mani is dedicated to the dissemination and development of contemporary cultural practice in non-urban environments.

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Artists, curators, writers, thinkers, performers and audiences are invited to lay aside preconceived notions of what art is, or how culture works, and enter into an open-minded, communicative and conscious perception of new and traditional cultural practice.

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Mani d.o.o. was co-organizer of  the EU co-funded project "Phonart - the Lost Languages of Europe" 2010-2012.

Mia Zabelka, composer, musician and curator, founded Enterprise Z in 2002.

The cultural organisation, which is dedicated to the realisation of contemporary art performance projects in public space, has pioneered a number of regional, national and border-crossing initiatives that provide a platform for artists and create synergies between audiences, cultural actors and curatorial groups.

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Enterprise Z was co-ordinator of the EU co-funded project "Phonart - the Lost Languages of Europe" 2010 - 2012 and curates a number of cultural events in Austria including the biennial Phonofemme Festival, which was launched in Vienna in 2009, the regular "Klangfest" events and artist residencies at Klanghaus Untergreith, Global Kids (workshops for children), amongst many other initiatives.

The team of Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt conducts a field research project in the polluted landscape of Görtschitztal, where soil and cattle fodder were contaminated by waste from local factories. One aim of the project is to retrieve images of Görtschitztal which go beyond that of the "poisoned valley", which dominate the media reports. At the moment we gather data relating to the inside- and outside-perceptions of the echoes of this "hidden landscape". Together with students of Klagenfurt University we made fieldtrips and interviewed inhabitants of Görtschitztal to learn more about their point of view. First results will be presented in our workshop in February 2017.

This autumn's Klangfest was held from 28 to 30 October and is dedicated to "The Sound of Europe". It is part of the project entitled "ECHOES FROM INVISIBLE LANDSCAPES“.
Enterprise Z's first contribution to this initiative is the project "The Sound of Europe" at Klanghaus Untergreith, where sounds, tones and noise were collected on a trip across Europe and compiled to form a sound map of the continent. These recordings made in cities including, among others, London, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Bucharest, Warsaw, St. Petersburg, Lisbon and Brussels reflect the cultural and social diversity of Europe. One central aim of this collection of sounds was to locate artistic and cultural activities that are largely undiscovered and thus "invisible".

"The Sound of Europe" is a sound installation that will be presented at the Sound Gallery of Klanghaus on the three festival days. Artists and creatives who entered into resonance on these trips will present their work. The Klanghaus lends itself as the resonating body that amplifies the echoes generated by the agents of cultural reflection and making them heard across geographic regional borders.