From negotiations to implementation: the EU’s strategic repositioning ahead of COP31
By Anna Perez-Catala (IDDRI), Hanne Knaepen (ECDPM), Mariana Camelo (ETTG), Marta Torres Gunfaus (IDDRI), Steffen Bauer (IDOS), Niels Keijzer (IDOS)
Collective Thinking forGlobal Development
Independent by nature
Aiming at informing and influencing European and international cooperation
International cooperation
Coordinating and facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogue
400 researchers
Distributed across our 6 member institutes to facilitate, produce and disseminate evidence-based knowledge and innovation
Sustainable innovation
Connecting policy-relevant research with EU policymaking and implementation
Working
on a global scale
In the 16 years of its existence ETTG members have extended to 7 European states. Additionally, ETTG has built partnerships with a diversity of governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations and leading think tanks in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe.
Cities that ETTG has directly presented or organised events in the framework of a project.
Geographic areas that have been subject to ETTG analysis.
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Collective action
for greater impact
The strength of ETTG is based on the multidisciplinary expertise of over 400 researchers, covering the EU’s comprehensive external action and international cooperation agenda. ETTG members share a strong belief in collective action to achieve global public goods. As independent think tanks, ETTG members systematically connect with the policymaking world at the level of the EU institutions and member states, with a broad range of civil society actors, through practical research and analysis, and by organising debates, workshops and high-level events.
- Development Finance
- Digital Transitions
- EU-Africa Relations
- EU-Latin America relations
- Food systems transformation
- Green and just transition
- Peace, security and governance
"We analyse and translate the relations between the EU and the South, from policy formulation to implementation.
We provide policy-oriented analyses offering recommendations that take into account trade-offs and dilemmas in development decisions."
Iliana Olivié
ETTG Director