Brussels, 30 November to 3 December 2026
30 November to 3 December 2026What happens in Brussels
Four days: one text per day from Monday to Wednesday, then adoption by consensus on Thursday.
The exercises use fictitious countries and figures, so that everyone can speak freely about real problems.
What each delegation brings
Your group’s view on investment data
Which of the data that financing institutions ask for are generally available in your sub-region, and where the main gaps are.
Your group’s view on the common data
For the twelve kinds of data in the draft standard, which should be common to all countries, optional, or national only.
Your group’s ideas for the Community
How the Community should work together and what it should prioritise in 2027. ITU merges the three CoP positions into the draft Charter and Work Programme.
Each CoP meets and sends one common position to ITU by 26 November.
Programme day by day
In the morning, financing institutions explain what they need from a broadband map before they put money into a network. In the afternoon your group plays the part of neighbouring countries preparing a joint request to a donor for a cross-border corridor, using only the data those countries have. The exercise shows where the data do not yet fit together.
Your group hands over: A list of what was missing, and why. It opens the first text, on using maps for investment.Your group agrees the minimum every country should collect in the same way, what can stay optional, and who is responsible for keeping the data up to date. Then you apply that minimum to Monday’s corridor proposals.
Your group hands over: The draft common data standard, with the points still open.You sit with your own sub-regional group. You decide what the Community is for, how it is chaired, what each institution takes on in 2027, and with which resources. No institution is committed without its agreement.
Your group hands over: The draft Charter and the 2027-2028 work programme.In the morning you visit the European institutions and meet the Member of the European Parliament who follows the next EU external financing instrument. In the afternoon the three texts are reviewed, amended and adopted by consensus in plenary. Reservations are recorded by institution.
Your group hands over: Three adopted texts, published after the meeting with the record of positions.How each day feeds the adoption
Agenda
Broadband data and investment readiness
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-09:45 | Opening remarks |
| 09:45-10:15 | Group photo and coffee break |
| 10:15-10:30 | Presentation of the programme |
| 10:45-12:00 | Session 1. Panel: broadband data requirements of financing institutions |
| 12:00-12:45 | Session 2. Investment readiness |
| 12:45-13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45-15:15 | Session 3. Simulation 1: corridor investment scenario |
| 15:15-15:35 | Coffee break |
| 15:35-16:20 | Session 4. Simulation 1: the three corridor proposals presented to the donor panel |
| 16:20-17:15 | Session 5. Simulation 1: donor panel assessment and key takeaways |
Towards a common data standard
| 09:00-09:15 | Opening: European regulatory and broadband mapping practice |
| 09:15-09:45 | Session 6. Results of Day 1 and the draft Investment Mapping and Prioritisation Guidance |
| 09:45-10:15 | Coffee break |
| 10:15-10:45 | Session 7. Data standardisation as a condition for investment readiness |
| 10:45-12:00 | Session 8. Simulation 2: mandatory, optional and country-specific features |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:30 | Session 9. Simulation 2: applying the minimum requirements to the corridor proposals |
| 14:30-15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00-16:00 | Session 10. Simulation 2: results, challenges and key takeaways |
| 16:00-17:00 | Session 11. Agreement on the draft Common Data Standards and Data Sharing Framework |
One Regional Community of Practice
| 09:00-09:15 | Session 12. Results of Day 2 and introduction to the Community of Practice |
| 09:15-10:45 | Session 13. Workshop: designing the Regional Community of Practice |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-12:30 | Session 14. Workshop: co-drafting the Work Programme 2027-2028 |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:00 | Session 15. Presentation and comparison of the sub-regional proposals |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00-17:00 | Session 16. Results, challenges and key takeaways |
Adoption of the outputs
| 08:30-08:45 | Meeting point and badges |
| 09:00-12:00 | Session 17. Study visit: European institutional and legislative processes |
| 12:00-12:45 | Session 18. Meeting with the Rapporteur of the Global Europe Instrument |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 | Session 19. Adoption of the outputs and next steps |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00-16:30 | 2027 outlook |
| 16:30-17:00 | Closing and ITU Academy certificates |
Draft agenda; sessions and timings may still change.
How the week is organised
- Monday and Tuesday in mixed groups of three to four countries, led by a regional association; Wednesday in your own sub-regional group.
- Templates and reference data are handed out in the room.
- The chairs of the three CoPs present the texts on Thursday. The CoP positions received by 26 November are already merged into the drafts.
- Venue, hotels and registration are on the event page.