The largest multidisciplinary forum in Europe

16 - 19 July, 2025
Dolní Vítkovice Ostrava

 
30 000+ visitors
200+ inspiring speakers
10+ thematic stages

Dan Ariely (USA)

Professor of psychology and behavioral economics

Irvine Welsh (GBR)

Novelist

Patrick McKeown (IRL)

Breathing Expert and Author

Merlin Sheldrake (GBR/USA)

Biologist and author

Rupert Sheldrake (GBR)

Biologist and author

Fabiola Gianotti (ITA)

Director-General of CERN

Jiří Horáček (CZE)

psychiatrist, psychotherapist

Tateki "TECH" Matsuda (JPN)

Professional MMA fighter
All speakers

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News for the year 2024

Aspen Young Leaders Program

Aspen Institute Central Europe and Meltingpot Forum/Colours of Ostrava Festival share the same values, similar audiences and promote ideas that contribute to the development of our society. Because of their shared values, we have opened this special Call for Applications.

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Experience the speakers of the discussion forum meltingpot through their personal audio-visual messages. The project voices of meltingpot crosses the boundaries of time, location, and themes.
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A magical place full of iron and mysterious alleys

 

A place where the past meets with creativity. This is where thoughts melt and combine.

Meltingpot Forum is part of the largest Czech multi-genre music festival Colours of Ostrava, which is attended by up to 50,000 spectators every year.

Said at Meltingpot 2023

 

"Democracy is like a body. It must be trained, it must be nourished, you must dedicate yourself to it, otherwise it will deteriorate."

Tuvia Tenenbom, writer and journalist

Said at Meltingpot 2023

 

"Sleep is not a credit card. You can't accumulate a debt of sleep and decide to pay it off one day. You'll never fully repay it, and the longer you carry that debt, the interest grows exponentially."

Matthew Walker, leading expert on sleep and author

Said at Meltingpot 2023

 

"A winner, to me, is a person who makes a contract with themselves and fulfills it."

Marián Jelínek, hockey trainer, coach, educator

Said at Meltingpot 2023

 

"The biggest problem in the Czech Republic is a shortage of qualified workforce. For our country to succeed, we need to open the market to hardworking and talented foreigners and actively bring them here."

Petr Fiala, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic

Said at Meltingpot 2023

 

"When we don't know how to breathe correctly, we can look at babies or: they are not influenced by theories of breathing, so they do it naturally, that is, correctly."

Patrick McKeown, breathing expert and author

Said at Meltingpot 2023

 

"We should stop contributing to the growth of our body and, on the contrary, invest in the growth of the spirit. It's the same with Europe. We should nurture the spirit: education, culture, and understanding. True value lies in the spirit."

Tomáš Sedláček, economist, philosopher and author

Said at Meltingpot 2023

 

"Invest in your health while you still have it."

Jiří Dvořák, professor of neurology, campaigner of brain health and healthy lifestyle

Said at Meltingpot 2023

 

"If you are interested in architecture, you enjoy life in a city more. Every walk becomes an experience."

Vladimír 518, producer, rapper, illustrator, set designer

Said at Meltingpot 2023

 

"If we run away from the things that hold us back on the path to happiness, they will always catch up with us. We must confront them, touch them, understand them, and ultimately overcome them."

John Perkins, economist, author, international speaker and activist

Said at Meltingpot 2023

 

"We have only one planet, and for some time now, we have been conducting a truly dangerous experiment on it."

Mark Maslin, professor of earth system science

MELTINGPOT's 2024 PARTNERS

GENERAL PARTNER

VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES

MAIN PARTNERS

Česká spořitelna CEZ

PARTNERS

Heimstaden Luxor
Slezská univerzita Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci Vysoké učení technické v Brně
Asociace profesionálních divadel České republiky Ostravská univerzita VŠB – Technická univerzita Ostrava
PRIGO EURUNI Gilead

IN COOPERATION WITH

Evropská unie

WITH THE SUPPORT OF

US Embassy Prague MS-IC MS Kraj
Dům zahraniční spolupráce Vláda ČR Tvoříme Evropu

OTHERS

Polska Livingstone UN HCR Moon shot Moravské divadlo Olomouc

Stage design partner

Bonami

MAIN MEDIA PARTNER

ČT

MEDIA PARTNERS

Reflex
The MELTINGPOT 2024 project is co-financed from the budget of the Moravian-Silesian Region.