Conference

CEPS Ideas Lab 2025

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Day 1 - Monday
Day 2 - Tuesday
Where
The Square
Mont des Arts, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

This event is accessible by invitation only.

Conference

CEPS Ideas Lab 2025

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After a 2024 dominated by elections, rising geopolitical tensions and looming challenges that cannot be avoided, 2025 promises to be yet another year of turbulence, where a ‘new normal’ is beginning to take shape throughout the global order. With new leadership and agendas emerging in key nations, being able to predict the resulting dynamics of global geopolitics is no easy task.

This is why the EU will need to rely on its own strengths, as traditional allies become less predictable. This is easier said than done due to growing populism and anti-European sentiment across Member States, exacerbated by disinformation campaigns and the increasing influence of social media platforms and key digital figures on the democratic process.

Ideas Lab 2025 will showcase CEPS’ interdisciplinary and data-driven research that seeks to analyse and influence these developments. Join us on 3 and 4 March for two days of thought-provoking discussions at the Square with some of Europe’s boldest thinkers, policymakers and innovators, as well as a truly immersive evening reception at Plein Publiek. Through Ideas Lab’s wide array of sessions, participants will have the opportunity to explore actionable solutions to some of our most pressing challenges, such as digital sovereignty, the energy transition, sustainable trade and the future of work in the age of AI.