Estoril Conferences 2022: A Future of Hope

Our goal: Inspire the PURPOSE GENERATION to take the lead

Thanks to an interactive experience, the Estoril Conference will reshape the future and provide a call to action for an immediate shift in direction. We are launching an exciting program in September 2022 in collaboration with Nova SBE and CEMS, giving you the opportunity to reflect upon the world’s current situation, bring to life engaging discussions around key topics affecting our society and consider solutions to make the world a better place.

Alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals

This initiative explores the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) like climate action, purpose economy, artificial intelligence, and social inequalities to change our world. As drawn out in SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals - the UN SDGs represent an unprecedented political and international agreement on the world’s greatest challenges and the desired global level of progress and collaboration. The Estoril Conference brings together not only academics, practitioners, and experts in various SDG-related fields but also the Youth, tomorrow’s future leaders. It is time to engage universities’ specialized talent and highly motivated students, ready to immerse themselves in the most complex and interdisciplinary topics of the Sustainable Development discipline, as a rewarding experience that results in a social change.

A Hybrid Event

An in-person event in Portugal will be transmitted online, ensuring worldwide access to all participants. The Youth Headline Debate will be broadcast LIVE from Portugal with international academic partners set in different locations for an interactive global discussion (e.g. “Eurovision Song Contest” model) and replicate the model in small twin events locally. A strategic partnership with CEMS, The Global Alliance in Management Education, will lead an interactive global discussion with the schools of the future.

In an increasingly interconnected world, this partnership creates a sense of belonging and commitment within younger generations. It is also a ‘call to action’ for leading Business Schools – as independent institutions – to set the tone and lead the way forward to transform our societies. Several initiatives will be designed in the scope of this partnership, and more news will be announced soon.

The program for the 7th edition, in 2022, will focus on the world’s current situation and discuss solutions to make the world a better place with a biais for action.

Registration is coming soon.  Please refer to the Estoril Conferences website for further details.