Based on the World Café format, participants had the possibility to join discussions on key challenges and essential instruments used for aligning priorities in small table groups. Each group changed tables three times every 20 minutes to contribute to the discussions. In these multiple rounds, different ideas and perspectives on each challenge were gathered and set the basis for discussions on solutions/tracks forward, to be picked up in the second parallel session.

Be it Digital, Green or Health Agenda, in the separate panels participants agreed that our capacity for societal transition needs to include an integrated perspective, include citizens in decision-making processes and act together to face similar challenges.

Dedicated bilateral meetings were organised within the conference to enable the European Partnerships and representatives of the relevant ministries and funding organizations from the WB economies to briefly meet and exchange. Visit our event report entry to find out more about these bilateral meetings and their presentations here.