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Closing event

From Evidence to Action: the EDU-LAB Integrative Conference

Youth transitions to education and labour in Europe and beyond: the outcomes of a complex research programme, brought together in one hybrid conference.

Date Provisional, Nov / Dec 2027
Venue Vienna, hybrid (in person and online)
Format One-day conference, around seven hours
Host EDU-LAB consortium
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Programme framework

The conference closes the series by turning the accumulated evidence into action. The full agenda is still being elaborated; the framework below reflects the current plan of two plenary sessions bracketing parallel thematic sessions.

Detailed agenda to be elaborated
Plenary — opening

Opening plenary

Setting the scene: the EDU-LAB research programme and its headline outcomes, with senior external speakers framing why youth transitions matter for European policy.

Parallel sessions

Thematic sessions

Two parallel tracks dedicated to three or four individual themes drawn from across the project, for example the scientific, societal, economic and policy impacts generated by EDU-LAB.

Track A Selected themes and their evidence base, with discussion.
Track B Further themes, including the impacts generated by the project.
Plenary — closing

Concluding plenary

Synthesis across the tracks, the from-evidence-to-action message, and the outlook for the project’s publications and follow-up work.

Who takes part

  • All EDU-LAB research-stream leads and project teams
  • Coordinators or representatives of the Horizon Europe Cluster 2 projects
  • Senior external speakers from the European Commission, Cedefop, the OECD and similar institutions

Outputs from the conference

Published on this page after the event.

Presentations

The plenary and thematic-session slide decks.

After the event

Recordings

Recordings of the plenary sessions.

After the event

Proceedings

Conference proceedings feeding the EDU-LAB publication programme.

After the event

Interested in the closing conference?

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