EuroDIG 2025

12 May 2025 - 14 May 2025

Strasbourg, France

Session reports

Note: All listed times are in the UTC time zone.
 

07:00 - 08:15 Pre 2: The Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI and Guidance for the Risk and Impact Assessment of AI Systems on Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law (HUDERIA)
07:00 - 08:15 Pre 3: Exploring Frontier technologies for harnessing digital public good and advancing Digital Inclusion
07:00 - 08:15 Pre 4: Dynamic Coalition on data and trust: Stakeholders Speak – Perspectives on Age Verification
09:00 - 10:15 Pre 6: Countering Disinformation and Harmful Content Online
09:00 - 10:15 Pre 7: Advancing Digital Inclusivity: UNESCO’s Measurement Approaches
09:00 - 10:15 Pre 8: IGF Youth Track: AI empowering education through dialogue to implementation – Follow-up to the AI Action Summit declaration from youth
11:00 - 12:15 Pre 10: Regulation of Autonomous Weapon Systems: Navigating the Legal and Ethical Imperative
11:00 - 12:15 Pre 11: Freedom Online Coalition’s Principles on Rights-Respecting Digital Public Infrastructure
11:00 - 12:15 Pre 12: Resilience of IoT Ecosystems: Preparing for the Future
11:00 - 12:15 Pre 9: Discussion on the outcomes of the Global Multistakeholder High Level Conference on Governance of Web 4.0 and Virtual Worlds
13:00 - 13:30 Opening
13:30 - 14:00 Keynotes
14:00 - 15:15 Opening Plenary: Working Together for a Human-Centred Digital Future – Parliamentary Cooperation for Democratic Digital Governance
15:15 - 16:00 Intergenerational dialogue – YOUthDIG Messages
07:00 - 08:30 Main Topic 1: Why the WSIS+20 Review Matters and How National and Regional IGFs Can Enhance Stakeholder Participation
07:30 - 08:30 Workshop 1: AI & non-discrimination in digital spaces: from prevention to redress
07:30 - 08:30 Workshop 2: The Interplay Between Digital Sovereignty and Development
07:30 - 08:30 Workshop 3: Quantum Computing: Global Challenges and Security Opportunities
09:00 - 10:30 Main Topic 2: Neurotechnology and privacy: Navigating human rights and regulatory challenges in the age of neural data
09:30 - 10:30 Workshop 4: NRI-Assembly: How can the national and regional IGFs contribute to the implementation of the UN Global Digital Compact?
09:30 - 10:30 Workshop 5: Bridging Digital Inequalities and Challenges in Multicultural Societies
12:00 - 13:30 Main Topic 3: Europe at the Crossroads: Digital and Cyber Strategy 2030
12:30 - 13:30 Workshop 6: Perception of AI Tools in Business Operations: Building Trustworthy and Rights-Respecting Technologies
12:30 - 13:30 Workshop 7: Generative AI and Freedom of Expression: mutual reinforcement or forced exclusion?
14:00 - 15:30 Main Topic 4: Transatlantic rift on Freedom of Expression
14:30 - 15:30 Workshop 8: How AI impacts society and security: opportunities and vulnerabilities
14:30 - 15:30 Workshop 9: Between Green Ambitions and Geopolitical Realities: EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act
07:00 - 08:30 Main Topic 5: The Age Verification Dilemma: Balancing child protection and digital access rights
07:30 - 08:30 Workshop 11: São Paulo Multistakeholder Guidelines – The Way Forward in Multistakeholder and Multilateral Digital Processes
09:00 - 09:30 Intergenerational dialogue – reflection of the conference
09:30 - 10:00 Wrap up

The Pan-European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) 2025 will take place from 12 to 14 May in Strasbourg, France, hosted by the Council of Europe in cooperation with the Luxembourg Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.

EuroDIG aims to foster multistakeholder European dialogue to share expertise and best practices and, where possible, identify common ground. It brings together national perspectives and applies and shapes European values. It is the place to initiate discussions and, therefore, a decision-shaping initiative. The year-round process culminates in an annual event.

For more details and to take part in this open and inclusive event, visit the official EuroDIG 2025 page.