UC Annual Conference 2024

Vienna, 15-16 November 2024

This year, the UC Annual Conference brought together our senior network of scholars, former and current officials, and experts to discuss the present and future of the European security order. A small group of UC Fellows served as discussants to all panels and participated in all sessions, providing feedback and fresh ideas. The conference progressed from broader strategic and analytical panels to more specific and contemporary topics, culminating in practical workshops focused on identifying paths forward and generating ideas relevant for policy.

From our participants:

"As always, the annual conference was a most gratifying experience for me.  I found the final workshop the most productive.  I have a bias toward policy-making.  And it was stimulating to try to work out a policy position in a small group, and it was instructive to hear the different approachs others took. "

"The idea of first speaking about the strategy and then about real world situations is brilliant: this has created an opportunity to frame the reality into some strategies. This approach seems very meaningful for me."

"I would like to say thank you to you and the entire UC team for planning such a unique and beneficial conference. I cannot emphasize enough how fortunate I felt to be in the presence of such brilliantly minded academics and practitioners. I really took away a lot, and had quite a few perspectives change. "