If nothing else, the European Ambition Institute exists to remind ambitious people that you can just do things.
In Europe, you can just do things. The mainstream paints a picture of decline and stagnation. Like Europe’s great builders, we refuse to accept this diminished future.
It is a fact that many of Europe’s best founders are raising capital from US investors and building their businesses there. Technologists trained in Europe’s great research institutions continue to cross the Atlantic seeking bigger missions and better compensation. European capital, accumulated through decades of industrial leadership, flows en masse to global megafunds rather than homegrown firms. 
We view this reality not as a permanent failure of the European system, but as a grand challenge.
How can Europe become the best place in the world for founders to build great things?
This question is central to European prosperity and resilience. Urgency must be met with boldness. Boldness takes courage. Courage requires conviction. We believe that this conviction is held by enough people to make a difference. These people are founders, policy-makers, operators, creators, investors, and capital allocators who share a common enemy of European retrograde. They each recognise that it is when you are fighting for your survival that you need ingenuity the most.
The European Ambition Institute exists to amplify and support those who believe “you can just do things” – those who continually question broken norms and reshape them with a concrete vision that unlocks societal progress and human flourishing. 
We do this by bringing together small, highly focused task forces aimed at breaking down the barriers that impede European ambition. Every person involved possesses a radical solution to a specific problem being tabled. Together, these people have the confidence to set absurd objectives and the combined faculties to achieve them. 
How can we build a fusion power plant in Europe by 2030?How can we reduce the permitting timeline for energy infrastructure to under 6 months? If regulations cannot change fast enough, how can we innovate around them?Why can't Europe lead the world in building AI data centres?How do we build a scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computer with a million logical qubits by 2030 in Europe?What would it take for Europe to build the first zettascale computer capable of simulating the entire biosphere in real time?How can we grow a world-class biomanufacturing hub with 10,000 highly skilled workers in a technology hub of Europe?
These aren't pipe dreams when you have the right people in the room: regulators who understand the urgency, determined founders with great technology, capital providers ready to back ambitious timelines, and storytellers capable of showing the public that the greater the obstacle, the more glory there is in overcoming it.
Alongside these builders, we are upgrading Europe’s Optimism Infrastructure. We open-source the learnings from these solution-oriented events and track the actions that come out of them – ambition benefits from accountability.
The next chapter of European innovation will not be written by those who say “this is how things are done,” but by those who ask “why can't we do this differently?” 
Join us in proving that Europe's greatest innovations lie not in its past, but in its abundant future.
Because in Europe, you really can just do things.