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Hybrid threats are the present and future of international security. They are defined by the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats as actions “conducted by state or non-state actors, whose goal is to undermine or harm a target by influencing its decision-making at the local, regional, state or institutional level. Such actions are coordinated and synchronized and deliberately target democratic states’ and institutions’ vulnerabilities”. The spread of disinformation and the rise in cyberattacks are just two examples of hybrid threats making headlines across the world today.

In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, the EUIA organising team and the partner institutions have decided, with much regret, to postpone the EUIA20 conference for one year, concretely to May 26-28, 2021. Travelling and gathering are likely to remain banned or not recommended until the summer break, so we will change the biennial cycle of the conference. Accordingly, the EUIA20 will become EUIA21 and the next two editions will take place in 2023 and 2025.

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