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On June 30, 2025, our Brussels FutureTalks series will enter its next round – the tenth, organized by the Brussels office of DLR Projektträger: “One Health in Action – Transforming Policy, Practice and Planetary Well-being” will focus on the role of environmental health and offer scientific and practical insights into One Health applications.

DLR-PT organises a joint foresight exercise back-to-back with the ministerial meeting of the “Western Balkans Steering Platform on Education & Training, Research & Innovation, and Culture” in North Macedonia.

More and more researchers and decision-makers are using foresight methods to better anticipate future developments and make strategic decisions. As part of the EU project ‘Eye of Europe’, DLR Projektträger has now produced a study on the European foresight landscape.

DLR Projektträger joins a consortium of leading European Foresight organisations to provide evidence-informed Foresight advice on trends, scenarios and policy options to institutions of the European Union.

The 9th edition of the "Brussels FutureTalks" on 20 June will focus on the dynamics of international cooperation and research security. Under the topic "Research Security – Translating Policies into Practical Solutions", EU and national policy makers as well as experts from the field will discuss solutions.

On behalf of the Regional Cooperation Council, DLR Projektträger has conceptualised and drafted the trend study "Unleashing the Potential for Competitiveness: Trends in the Western Balkans". The study identifies and analyses trends and their implications for the region's competitiveness until 2035.

The DLR Projektträger is supporting the further development of European science diplomacy on behalf of the European Commission. The starting signal for this was given at the "First European Conference on Science Diplomacy", which took place on 18 and 19 December 2023 under the Spanish EU Council Presidency in Madrid and online.

How can European countries that need to catch up in terms of research and development be supported? The seventh edition of "Brussels: FutureTalks" explored this question. More than 70 experts and stakeholders from politics and practice discussed what contribution the EU Widening programme can make and what framework conditions will be needed in the

On 15 November 2023, the Federal Cabinet adopted the National Action Plan for the European Research Area. With this plan, the Federal Government is determining the course of its EU research and innovation policy for the coming years. The DLR Projektträger played an active role in the development of the action plan.

Establishing scientific excellence in all EU countries - that is the goal of the "Widening" action program. At the seventh Brussels: FutureTalks on November 20, 2023, experts will discuss what role the program can play in the individual innovation ecosystems in Central and Eastern European countries.

The Brussels Future Talks series organised by the Brussels Representative Office of the DLR Projektträger is going into the next round: On 20 September 2023, experts and stakeholders from the field will discuss the topic "EU Missions Assessment: European Perspectives in Exchange with Experiences from Austria and Germany".

Under the motto "Shaping the digital future together – learning and sharing in smart cities and regions", the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building(BMWSB) is bringing together municipalities in Thuringia in an event organised by the Coordination and Transfer Office Model Projects in Smart Cities (KTS ).

Diplomats from Germany and Europe discussed Europe's future role in the world under the leadership of the DLR Projektträger. The Futures Literacy Laboratory on "The Futures of the EU as a Global Actor 2040" presented new future scenarios.

DLR Projektträger has a new client: in the coming years, it will provide strategic advice to the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) in the fields of Strategic Foresight and Technology Assessment.

Brussels: FutureTalks, the event series organised by the DLR Projektträger’s Brussels office, enters its fifth round on January 26^th. Together with the Mission of Switzerland to the EU, DLR Projektträger invites you to a panel discussion followed by a reception on the topic of Science Diplomacy: From Data to Policy Implementation.

The G20 Summit ended in Bali on the 16^th November 2022. The preceding ministerial meetings on education, research and innovation focused, among other things, on the post-COVID-19 world of work and on digital learning technologies. DLR Projektträger provided intensive support for the BMBF's participation.

The topic of urban diplomacy was on the agenda at the "Brussels: FutureTalks" in early November. In the workshop "Cities as Partners & Innovators in Diplomacy?", 30 high-calibre experts discussed the increasingly important role that cities are playing, especially in diplomatic terms, given the rapid urbanisation worldwide.