10:00 – 10:30/ Welcome coffee and registrations

10:30 – 10:40 / Welcome and Institutional Remarks      

Martin Essayan – Trustee of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Marco del Panta – Secretary-General of the European University Institute

10:40 – 11:10 / Presentation of the EMIF Annual Progress Report for Year 3 of Implementation

Pedro Calado – Chair of the Management Committee on behalf of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Fabrizio Tassinari – Member of the Management Committee on behalf of the European University Institute

Joanna Krawczyk – Independent Member of the Management Committee, German Marshall Fund

11:10 – 11:30 / Presentation of EMIF's external assessment

Max Von Abendroth – The Partnering Initiative 

11:30 – 12:00 / Conversation with the EMIF Steering Committee

Emerging challenges and recommendations from the External Evaluation Report of Year 3              

Martin Essayan – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Marco del Panta – European University Institute

Miguel Poiares Maduro – European University Institute

Moderated by:

Paolo Cesarini – Florence School of Transnational Governance, EUI

12:00 – 13:00 / Townhall Session – EMIF's Impact after 3 years

Open discussion with audience after reports presentations         

Moderated by:

Joanna Krawczyk – EMIF / German Marshall Fund

13:00 – 14:30 / Networking lunch

14:30 – 15:30 / Networks of Disinformation in election times in Europe and worldwide   

"Global perspective from NED about the super election year"

Adam Fivenson – National Endowment for Democracy

"On the DISARM Framework and the 2024 EP Elections"

Omri Preiss – DISARM

"Observations from the EDMO Taskforce on 2024 European Elections"

Giovanni Zagni – Pagella Politica

Moderated by:

Joanna Krawczyk – EMIF / German Marshall Fund

15:30 – 16:30 / Election-themed session presentation 

Testimonies from EMIF-funded projects related to recent and ongoing electoral processes, and debate to follow.    

Anna Ørtoft – Empowering Nordic Fact-Checking with Social Data in the 2024 EP Elections

Margot Cassiers – Electi Facts: Euro 2024

Bret Schafer – The search barometer – a tool to understand search engine vulnerabilities ahead of the EP elections

Speaker TBC – The marketplace of (false) ideas

16:30 – 18:00 / Networking reception

09:30 – 10:00 / Welcome

10:00 – 11:30 / Two sides of the same coin: algorithmic accountability and user empowerment

Virginia Padovese – NewsGuard

Maria Giovanna Sessa – EU DisinfoLab

Google (TBC)

Testimonies from EMIF’s grantees:

Guillaume Kuster – Check First

Luis Espinosa-Anke – Cardiff University (Neutralizing Economic Rewards of Disinformation)

TeamLit (TBC)

Moderated by:

Fabrizio Tassinari – Florence School of Transnational Governance, EUI

11:30 – 11:45 / Coffee break

11:45 – 12:00 / How EMIF addresses the main thematic areas targeted by disinformation

Rolf Nijmeijer – EMIF, Florence School of Transnational Governance, EUI

Annachiara Zardini – EMIF, Florence School of Transnational Governance, EUI

12:00 – 13:00 / Flash Talks on Emergent in Disinformation themes

Testimonies from EMIF grantees on four thematic areas: vulnerable groups, health, climate, international crises

Youssef Zeineddine – EMIF, Florence School of Transnational Governance, EUI

EMIF’s grantees invited:

Marie Šafář Postma – Tilburg University, DCA - The dynamics of LGBTQ+ misinformation across Europe. The dynamics of LGBTQ+ misinformation across Europe

Lucila Gisele Alvarez Zuzek – Leiden University - Understanding Misinformation and Science in Societal Debates (UnMiSSeD)

Ioanna Kostarella – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - SHAAZAM

Attila Biro – ro – Debunking Deceit: Defend Ukraine and EU Against Malign Mis/Disinformation 

Moderated by:

Joana Pires Teixeira – EMIF, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

13:00 – 13:15 / Closing remarks                       

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

13:15 – 14:45 / Networking lunch