Corresponding to the year’s theme “State Financing and Business Financing at a Crossroads” the first Convoco Forum was held at the Gwandhaus in Salzburg on the 19 of June 2010. Dr. Corinne Michaela Flick as well as Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Paul Kirchhof gave an introduction to the topic of the day “Learnings from the Financial Market Crisis”. Afterwards Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Otmar Issing explained his standpoints.