10 May 2021

9H30-10h00| Opening Session

10h00-11h30| Roundtable 1

Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council and the priorities of the trio

Moderator: Filipe Caetano (TVI-Portugal)

Francisco Seixas da Costa (OBSERVARE-UAL)
Luís Simón (Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS), Brussels School of Governance Elcano Royal Institute)
Ana Bojinović Fenko (University of Ljubljana)
Madalena Meyer-Resende (IPRI-NOVA)

11h30-11h45 | Break

11h45-13h00| Roundtable 2

The EU’s Strategic Compass: The Way Forward

Moderator: Leonídio Paulo Ferreira (Diário de Notícias)

13h00-14h30 | Lunch break

14h30 – 16h00 | Panel 1: Transatlantic relations

Moderator: Bruno Cardoso Reis (CEI-Iscte)

Patricia Daehnhardt (IPRI-NOVA): The reconstitution of transatlantic relations
Vira Ratsiborynska (Vrije University Brussels): Shared resilience against hybrid threats: EU-NATO approaches
Miguel Borba de Sá (University of Coimbra) and Victor Beirith (Federal University of Santa Catarina) : Transatlantic Alliances in Times of Hegemonic Decay: European Aggravations of Venezuelan Political Crises and the Future of Europe in the Emerging World Order
Ana Belén Perianes Bermúdez (University Institute General Gutiérrez Mellado-UNED): The transatlantic link since Obama´s Pivot to Asia: Prospects for future and challenges for the emergence of the EU as a global actor

16h00-16h30 | Break

16h30-18h00 | Panel 2: Security and Defense

Moderator: Luís Valença Pinto (OBSERVARE-UAL)

Manuel Herrera (CEI-Iscte): The European Union as a global/regional actor in the field of Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Marco Marsili (CEI-Iscte): Russia vs. EU: Confrontation in a Contested Neighbourhood. A Challenge to the Helsinki Accords
Ines Marques Ribeiro (CEI-Iscte): The EU’s resilience in security and defence: a critical geopolitical perspective
Adrian Pogacian (ReThinking Europe): Political Strategies in a Multi-Polar World. Where is EU in all this story?

18h00-18h15 | Break

18h15 – 19h15 | Roundtable 3

Chang(EU) talks: EU’s capacity to act: strategic sovereignty, autonomy, resilience

11 May 2021

[tbc] 9h30 – 11h00 | Panel 3: Resilience and Narratives

Moderator: Ines Marques Ribeiro (CEI-Iscte)

Carlos Morgado Braz (International Centre for Policing and Security/University of South Wales): Right-wing extremism and the new dimension of terror in Europe: historical parallels as a double-edged sword
Rebeca Gradíssimo (Iscte): “Homo Europaeus” A cultural construct
Solvita Denisa-Liepniece (Vidzeme Univesity of Applied Science): Deep media literacy to increase cognitive resilience
Vanda Amaro Dias and Maria Raquel Freire (CES, University of Coimbra) : (In)securitization practices in the Mediterranean: an analysis of EU Operations

11h00-11h30 | Break

11h30 – 13h00 | Panel 4: Climate

Moderator: Ricardo Sousa (OBSERVARE-UAL)

Fábio Reis (CES, University of Coimbra): Towards an EU Climate-Resilient Peacebuilding
Michael Richter (ITN (MSCA Grant) at the University of Bremen) and Niklas Mayer (University of Maastricht): EU Foreign Relations and Climate Change – Paper Tiger or Game Changer? The Cases of Africa and the EaP

13h00-14h00 | Lunch break

14h00 – 15h30 | Panel 5: Asia

Moderator: Daniel Cardoso (OBSERVARE-UAL)

Sofia Ribeiro-Lemos and Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira (University of Minho): Dealing(s) with a Rogue: Comparing US and EU Strategic Narratives vis-à-vis North Korea
Daniel Marcelino Rodrigues (OBSERVARE-UAL): The EU and Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy
Luís Filipe Pestana (Beijing Normal University): China’s “Polar Silk Road”: challenges and opportunities for the EU
Eva Sali (Fudan University): EU-China relations: how strategic and autonomous is the EU?

15h30-15h45 | Break

15h45 – 17h00 | Panel 6: Global South

Moderator: Urban Jaksa (CEI-Iscte)

Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira and Daniella da Silva Nogueira de Melo (University of Minho): The European Union’s Actorness in South Atlantic
Osman Sabri Kıratlı (Bogazici University): Public Perception of the EU in Global South
Joana Vidal Lopes (OBSERVARE-UAL): Challenges from the Mediterranean Refugee and Migrant Crisis in the European Union
Lars Niklasson (Linköping University & SIEPS): EU and Africa on the right track? Contradictions of the proposed EU strategy for Africa

17h00 – 17h15 | Break

17h15 – 18h45 | Roundtable 4

The EU, USA and China

Moderator: Helena Carreiras (IDN)

18h45 – 19h00 | Break

19h00 – 20h00 | Closing Remarks

Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues (Rector, Iscte)
His Excellency, the Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva