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Digitally Aware Elections event series

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Tuesday 16 April , 18:00-Friday 31 May , 19:30
BSoG, Pleinlaan 5, 1050 Brussels, floor -1 Rome/Lisbon
This event is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.
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The 2024-2029 EU parliamentary term will tackle several key digital policy issues, relating to AI, cybersecurity and critical infrastructure, data protection, online safety, and sustainable digital development. As the EU approaches this pivotal moment in shaping its future digital policy, the BSoG's CD2I Centre is spearheading a sequence of onsite events dedicated to discussing these themes. At each of these gatherings, we invite a digital policy advisor representing one of the European political groups will delve into discussions with fellow panelists and attendees, focusing on their group's digital policy agenda. Fellow panelists will include several other invited experts from a range of different stakeholder groups (academia, technical community, government, industry), each bringing a unique perspective to the conversation.

These engaging discussions are designed to enrich your understanding and spark thought-provoking dialogue, helping you navigate your choices in the upcoming elections with greater insight. In addition, after each event, students participating in the MSc in European Integration at the Brussels School of Governance will write up a short report of each discussion, with the aim to explain the approach of the political group to digital policy for the next legislative term (2024-2029). At the end of the series, and before the election, the students - in collaboration with research staff - at the BSoG will publish a Policy Brief that packages all these individual reports and provides a summary overview of the European political groups’ approaches and intentions for digital policy in the next parliamentary term. All people who register for one or more of the sessions below will receive an invitation to a lunchtime event at the premises of the Internet Society in Brussels that will take place before the election. At this event, our final report and summary overview will be presented and there will be room for further discussion and networking. Come to our sessions and help us shape the future direction of the European Parliament's approach to digital policies in the EU!

Below is an overview of the sessions confirmed so far:

To register for any of these events, please click on their link in the list above and register on the event's separate page.