The Lisbon Council convened a deep dive on New Tools for New Times: Mobilising the Metaverse to Boost STEAM Education. Before an audience of education policy experts, business leaders, educators and academics, high-level speakers discussed how tools like the metaverse, 3D printing and more can be harnessed to make science education fit for the future.

The Lisbon Council convened The 2022 UserCentriCities Summit and launched Help Where It’s Most Needed, a new policy brief looking at the cutting-edge of modern public-service delivery. The Summit took place in the margins of the Smart City Expo in Barcelona. Petro Olenych, deputy mayor of Kyiv, keynoted.

On the eve of landmark talks in Sharm El-Sheikh at COP 27, the Lisbon Council launches Driving Innovation to Curb Climate Change: Recommendations for COP 27.

The Lisbon Council convened the High-Level Summit on Coping in an Age of Disruption. The Honourable Julianne Smith, United States permanent representative to NATO, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former president of Estonia, and Professor Daniel S. Hamilton, senior fellow, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and president of the Transatlantic Leadership Network led a thought-provoking and timely discussion.

The Lisbon Council in Brussels and the leading transatlantic think tank Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) in Washington DC co-convened the Digital Decade 2030 High-Level Roundtable.