Launch of PISA 2009 Results
The Lisbon Council had the privilege of hosting the European launch of PISA 2009, a ground-breaking OECD study on international student performance that put education squarely on the policy-making agenda…
Summits
Skills and Human Capital High-Level Working Group
The High-Level Working Group on Skills and Human Capital convened under the timely theme Creating and Maintaining Human Capital in an Age of Transformation. During highly interactive breakout sessions key…
Book Launch: Public Sector Innovation
In a forceful intervention, Christian Bason, director, author and Ph.D fellow at MindLab, the Danish innovation agency, introduced his new book Leading Public Sector Innovation: Co-Creating for a Better Society.…
The 2010 Euro Summit: Economic Governance for Sustainable Growth
Two days before the European Council decided on a historic overhaul of euro-area economic governance, Olli Rehn, European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs delivered The 2010 Ludwig Erhard Lecture,…
Unleashing the Digital Single Market by an Ambitious EU Data Policy
Vivane Reding, vice-president of the European Commission and commissioner for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, vowed to use EU justice policy to strengthen the single digital market and announced that…
The 2010 Government of the Future Summit
Convening just two days before the June European Council, the Government of the Future Summit convened under the timely theme of ‘Exiting the Crisis: Citizens, Society and State Transformation in…