Workplace Europe: Mind the Gap!

On 1 July,  eight weeks after the launch of the Conference on the Future of Europe, Studio Europa Maastricht organised a special edition of Workplace Europe in collaboration with the European Committee of the Regions: Workplace Europe: Mind the Gap!

The Workplace discussed the gaps the Conference on the Future of Europe aspires to address, as well as how regions and their institutions can bridge these gaps. In doing so, this Workplace Europe aimed to empower regions and their institutions to claim a seat at the table of the conference. Professionals active in and across the domains of academia, policymaking and civil society discussed how to mind and anticipate the gaps (i.e. the challenges and opportunities)  laid bare by the Conference on the Future of Europe.  In what ways is the conference a wake-up call for regions and their institutions to better facilitate the debate and dialogue on European affairs? And how can they utilise it as a window of opportunity to promote trans-local, trans-sectoral collaboration and democratic innovation? 

Wilma Delissen – van Tongerlo (Mayor of Peel and Maas and member of the European Committee of the Regions), Niccolò Milanese (founding director of European Alternatives), Wolfgang Petzold (Deputy Director Communications at the European Committee of the Regions) and Alvaro Oleart (postdoctoral researcher at Studio Europa Maastricht and the Department of Political Science at Maastricht University) were invited to open Workplace Europe: Mind the Gap!. In a panel discussion, moderated by Beatriz Rios, they discussed European participatory democracy of citizens and regions in light of the Conference on the Future of Europe. The panel discussion was followed by two interactive breakout sessions.  
 
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