IDEAS 2026
New paths towards prosperity
in the European Union.
Rethinking Governance, Integration
and Collective Well-Being
27 - 29 May 2026 | Brussels, Belgium
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Friday, 29/May/2026 | |||
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
Welcome Desk - Day 3 |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
The EU as regulatory state in a global perspective The operationalisation of the EU’s water regulation framework across four Member States: mapping and explaining shifting and fragmented institutional designs Université de Liège, Belgium Between Green Ambitions and Strategic Interests: Unpacking Policy (In)Coherence in EU Mineral Value Chain Regulation Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium & University of Helsinki, Finland. Reimagining the Economic Constitution of the EU: Resilience, Circularity, and the Pursuit of Sustainable Prosperity Utrecht University, the Netherlands The Competitive Impact of Environmental Standards on European Companies – Economic and Ecological Integration Through the Lens of Globalisation Université de Pau et des pays de l’adore, France |
European Governance towards Shared Prosperity Failure or Resilience? Analysing cooperation patterns in European asylum governance 1: Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium; 2: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Social Convergence or Divergence? Assessing the Distributive Impact of the EU's New Socio-Economic Governance 1: University of Rijeka, Croatia; 2: Permanent Representation of the Republic of Croatia to the EU Economic Democracy and Economic Security in an Operational Framework for Policy-Makers: Promoting Eudaimonic Well-being in the Wellbeing Economy 1: Wuppertal Institut, Germany; 2: JXW Strategy & Operations; 3: University of Florence The Role of Social Partners in the Revamped EU Socio-Economic Governance Architecture 1: Eurofound, Ireland; 2: Faculty of Political Science of Zagreb University, Croatia |
Reassessing the EU's legal instruments for sustainable prosperity Legal Arguments Against Sufficiency Transformation: Is the Legal Architecture of the Common Agricultural Policy Really Incompatible with Sufficiency? University of Eastern Finland, Finland New Paths to Environmental Sustainability: The ‘Do No Significant Harm’ as an Horizontal Principle in EU Governance University of Torino, Italy How Human Rights Principles Improve the Protection of Environment in the Context of Just Transition? University Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Romania European economic policy faced with the imperative of individual happiness. A Legal viewpoint on a political misunderstanding University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Decommodifying social life The Political Economy of Housing in the European Union: Crisis and Governance Beyond EU Competence QMUL, United Kingdom The Wealth Inequality of Real Estate: How Secondary Properties Undermine Pathways to Shared Prosperity in Europe 1: Antwerp University, Belgium; 2: L'Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" From Fragmentation to Framework: Towards Food Citizenship in the European Union Central European University – Democracy Institute, Hungary Prosperity Beyond Circularity: Degrowth and Pluriverse Urbanism for Europe’s Green Transition University of Turin, Italy |
Towards a genuine EU defence policy Rearming Europe: Domestic Governance Ecosystems and the Demand for European Defence Integration 1: University of Antwerp, Belgium; 2: Vrij Universiteit Brussel THE EU’s MUTUAL DEFENCE CLAUSE: LEGAL AND STRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS ON ARTICLE 42(7) TEU IN AN AGE OF RENEWED MILITARY THREATS Dublin City University, College of Europe European state-building and integration compared: towards EU fiscal and military capacity development Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France The Next MFF and EU’s defense spending: Integrating “European Public Goods” into the Union’s budgetary architecture Bocconi University, Italy Strategic uncertainty as a stress test: Differentiated integration and democratic legitimacy in EU defence governance Youth policy center, Morocco |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch - Day 3 |
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Labour and skills in the EU Market and Polity Industrial Policy through Skills Governance: A Study of the Political Economy of the EU’s Union of Skills 1: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; 2: University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Power Resources and the Politicisation of Unemployment during the ‘Golden Age’ of Social Europe Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Regulating grey zones: the EU’s traineeship directive and the limits of harmonization in labour law University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The |
New pathways for EU industrial policy Greening or Competing to Survive? International Pressures and Ideas in the EU’s Green Growth Strategy European University Institute, Italy The New EU Industrial Policy: Evolving Governance Between Innovations and Constraints Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium The Politics and Practices of Joint Procurement in the European Union University of Bremen, Germany European Financial Integration through Joint Procurement: Potential and Legal Challenges European University Institute, Italy |
The European Union and today's democratic challenges International election observation and European democracy Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador Rebalancing Voices: Making Digital Participation Travel Across Europe’s Governance Stack Brussels School of Governance, Belgium Connecting citizens and the EU: How subnational mobilization shapes perceptions of democratic legitimacy Radboud University / The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, The The Governance of Truth in the Green Transition: Climate Disinformation, Greenwashing, and the Need for a New EU Framework to Safeguard Democratic Participation and Collective Prosperity. N/A, Belgium |


