20 years of EuroSSIG marks also 20 years of Schools on Internet Governance (SIG) worldwide. In July 2007, the first European Summer School on Internet Governance (EuroSSIG) was held in Meissen. But other than the name suggests it was always a global school counting now over 500 alumni’s from across the world. Since then, many national and regional Schools on Internet Governance have been created and the concept established globally.
We would like to thank the EuroSSIG alumni, faculty and donors who came to Meissen and celebrated with us.
Get impressions here. You can view the anniversary presentation as PDF (about 279 MB) or PPTX (about 372 MB).
20th Anniversary of EuroSSIG
Speech by Prof. Wolfgang Kleinwaechter,
Chair of the EuroSSIG Faculty, Meissen, August 1, 2026
Video messages
Amandeep Singh Gill, UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies | Transcript
Vint Cerf, former Google evangelist
Bertrand de la Chapelle, Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network
Renata Mielli, cgi.br
We asked alumnies to share memories
Parallel workshops for personal growth
Workshop 1:
Still here: Staying present in a world that never stops
- Bettina Hallifax, The Journey Presenterin und Conscious Coach
Workshop 2:
Whatever happened to the telephone? Or a short history of how the Internet changed everything
- Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal
Workshop 3:
Speaking up: How to deliver strong interventions
- Hans Seeuws, Business Operations Manager, EURid
Workshop 4:
Negotiation as a personal skill: Finding agreement when everyone has a stake
- Friedhelm Wachs, Negotiation Expert
EuroSSIG receives WSIS Prize 2026 Nomination Award
Two Decades of Building Internet Governance Capacity
In 2003, the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) was created in part to answer a seemingly simple question raised by the first UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS): what is Internet governance? As WGIG members grappled with a definition, another question kept coming up alongside it: where could someone actually study these issues? The answer, at the time, was nowhere.
The European Summer School on Internet Governance (EuroSSIG) was founded in 2007 to close that gap — and this year, twenty years later, it has been named a WSIS Prize 2026 Nomination Award winner in the Capacity Building category, one of the projects recognized in that category by the ITU & WSIS Forum.
