The “Interacting with the European Parliament” project http://parliament.europe.bg, co-funded by the European Parliament’s DG Communication and implemented by the European Institute Foundation, the Center for Policy Modernization and Europe Gateway www.europe.bg, organized an International conference “Europe 2020 – the Civic Visions”, who toke place in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 29 and 30 January 2010.
This two-day conference aims at bringing together representatives of CSOs, both grass-root and think-tank organizations, academic representatives and MEPs, giving them the floor to develop visions about Europe's future, on the basis of their concrete experience and practice. The objective of the conference is to come up with a framework on what Europe should look like in 2020, as well as with ideas about the ways to achieve the presented goals and the action that should be taken to implement these.
The "Europe 2020 - Civic Visions" conference had three panels:
    * Panel 1 – The European democracy – mission possible?
    * Panel 2 - European cultural space and identity;
    * Panel 3 - The solidarity in the EU – shared responsibility for development.
Those three concepts has been presented at the conference’s closing plenary session and, taking them together, was try to summarize the civic viewpoints about the key development drivers of EU 2020.