TRIGGER Newsletter #5

May 2022

INTRODUCTION

Dear Readers and Friends of TRIGGER

We want to share with you in this Newsletter the relevant activities, reports, blog posts and interview videos that TRIGGER organised in the past months. We hope you enjoy our implemented work to understand actorness, effectiveness and influence in global governance of the European Union.

The Project Coordinator invites you to read about selected project insights in the WP4 Final Report, wherein you can find specific output of the TRIGGER project and better understand its relevance in the governance arrangements and regulatory frameworks.

Digital Transformation and Trends in Artificial Intelligence (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

This event was held at the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) on April 28th 2022. Jyldyz Bakashova moderated and opened the event, which included greetings on behalf of the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic and the presence of Chairwoman of the Committee on Social Policy of the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic – Dinara Ashimova. Murat Dzhumataev, President of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic, held a presentation on “Artificial intelligence and new challenges of science in the Kyrgyz Republic”, which was followed by Jyldyz Bakashova’s presentation on “Digital government in the context of digital transformation”. The participants were then invited to hold an open debate on the boundaries between human creativity and AI, the challenges laying ahead for this field of science and the regulatory environment to be envisioned for the safe use of AI.

The full press release can be found here

Ideas Lab 2022 (Brussels, Belgium)

The 9th edition of the CEPS Ideas Lab event will take place on June 1st 2022 at Blue Point Brussels. This interactive event will bring together CEPS Young Thinkers of Europeans and experienced experts in EU policymaking – the objective is to address the topic of how the EU can re-establish peace and prosperity; or whether this is an impossible dream.

The 2022 Ideas Lab event will feature a “Lab Session” dedicated to topics such as strengthening the EU’s role as a global governance actor, EU migration diplomacy and social investment in the EU. After a message by CEPS Chairperson  Joaquín Almunia and a presentation on “What do Europeans expect from the EU now: What do recent elections and opinion polls tell us” (in cooperation with Bertelsmann Stiftung), the afternoon will feature a “Food for Thought” session, addressing Europe’s next refugee crisis, the implications of soaring energy prices and the geopolitical implications of the Ukraine war

Find the full program of the Ideas Lab event here and stay tuned to TRIGGER’s LinkedIn and Twitter account for more information on the TRIGGER-related session at the event.

Final Conference (Brussels, Belgium)

The Final Conference of the TRIGGER project will be held on May 31st. The project partner will meet at CEPS and present COCTEAU – the novel tool for citizen engagement – as well as a number of “alternative futures” for the EU, based on foresight scenarios. This discussion, moderated by Marco Brambilla and Clément Perarnaud will feature Kalypso Nicolaidis, Alberto Alemanno and Roberto Verganti.

After a short coffee break, Gaby Umbach will moderate a session on foresight in policy making, which will welcome Nikos Kastrinos and Philine Warnke as the speakers discerning on the EU’s alternative futures.

In the afternoon, TRIGGER researchers Klaus Jacob, Julia Teebken, Clément Perarnaud, Sara Ronco and the Young Thinkers, moderated by Andrea Renda, will take stock of the EU’s actorness and effectiveness across different policy sectors. In this session, they will present the deep dive finding and provide recommendations addressing the EU’s gaps and areas for improvements.

Additionally, an academic debate on actorness, power and legitimacy will take place under the name “Building bridges: perspectives on EU and its future”. This will be a conversation with Vivien Schmidt, moderated by Andrea Renda who will then proceed to conclude the Final Conference and provide the final remarks of the day.

Following the Final Conference, a number of project partners will stay in Brussels for another day to attend the 2022 Ideas Lab event. Make sure to follow TRIGGER on LinkedIn and Twitter for insights and testimonials from the Final Conference and the Ideas Lab event!

SELECTED PROJECT OUTPUTS AND INSIGHTS

AGGREGATOR Repository

AGGREGATOR stands for ‘Atlas of Global Governance REGulation and Europe’s AcTORness’. It is the TRIGGER project's online database that offers access to the datasets on global and EU governance developed in TRIGGER on:
 
• Global governance regimes, tools and approaches;
• International Regulatory Cooperation;
• Transnational private regulatory regimes;
• Measuring governance performance as a global governance instrument;
• EU differentiated integration;
• EU multilevel governance and human resources.

AGGREGATOR functions as the central data repository of the datasets developed by the TRIGGER consortium. Files are downloadable from the website. Moreover, data from the datasets have been transferred into dynamic data visualisations to display certain parts of data and dynamic presentations have been created on the timelines of governance development in the four policy areas analysed by TRIGGER, i.e. climate change; data protection; development policy and relations to Africa; and the Sustainable Development Goals. Finally, insights from TRIGGER research results on EU actorness and effectiveness are available both in descriptive form and for download in a separate section on EU actorness

All TRIGGER videos can be found here. Below, you can find the 3 most recent videos:

 
The youth and future thinking – the 4 essential skills in the post-pandemic era - YouTube

 
The TRIGGER global governance scenarios | Interview with Aaron Rosa and Svetlana Ivanova

 
Why is foresight getting increasingly important for policy makers?
Interview with Aaron Rosa and Svetlana Ivanova

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TRIGGER project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme, under the Grant Agreement number 822735. This newsletter reflects only the author’s view and the Commission is not responsible for any use that maybe made of the information it contains.

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