A "Opening session" contou com a presença de: José Amado da Silva | UAL's Rector Ozgur Tufekci | Director of CESRAN International Luís Tomé | Director of Observare-UAL Luís Nuno Rodrigues | Director of CEI-IUL Richard Sakwa foi o Keynote Speech no IEPAS 2020.

O segundo painel "Discussion" teve como tema "NATO's Challenges in View of the Future Strategic Concept" e contou com a participação de: Huseyin Bagci | Middle East Technical University, Turkey Luís Valença Pinto | UAL, Portugal Maria Raquel Freire | The University of Coimbra, Portugal Nuno Severiano Teixeira | NOVA University, Portugal Rafael Calduch Cervera | The Complutense University, Spain Este painel contou com a moderação de Helena Carreiras, Director of the Portuguese National Defense Institute, Portugal.

O painel "Book Discussion" foi abordado o livro "America in Afghanistan: Foreign Plicy and Decision Making From Bush to Obama to Trump" escrito por Sharifullah. O painel contou com a participação do autor do livro e de Rahman Dag da CESRAN International, UK, como moderador.

O painel 10 teve como tema "Neighbours of the EU: What is Wrong with it?" e contou com a apresentação dos seguintes papers: Timea Pál | CEI-IUL, Portugal "Differentation in the EU's Relations with Eastern Neighbours: What Implications for the Promotion of Labour Standards?" Seray Kilic | Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey "Building Resilience in the Neighbourhood: Securitization on the Agenda" Josif Gjani & Jonida Balla | University of Tirana, Albania "The EU after Brexit: New Options for Differentiated Integration?" Ana Belén Perianes | University Institute General Gutiérrez Mellado, IUGM-UNED, Sapin "Challenges and prospects for Future of the EU Relations in Central Asia: The Special Case of Kazakhstan" Este painel contou com a moderação de Ricardo Sousa da UAL, Portugal.

O painel 9 teve como tema "Enduring Conflicts in Eurasia" e contou com a apresentação dos seguintes papers: Bezen Coskun | Swp Berlin Centre for Applied Turkish Studies, Germany "Anatomy of a De Facto State: Abkhazia between Societal and Economic Security" Javadbay Khalilzade | Kent State University, UK "Reassessing Georgian South-Ossetia Conflict: The ARIA Framework as a Possible Conflict Resolution" Rahimullah Kakar | European University of Flensburg, Germany "An Assessment of the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan: The Afghan Peace and Reconciliation Puzzle" Ebru Birinci | Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia "Change and Continuity in Russian Middle Eastern Policy: Israeli Vector" Matthew Lubin | Duke University, USA "Ebussuud Efendi's Cyprus Fatwa and Ottoman Justifications for War" Elena Onu | The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Romania "Impact of Unresolved Conflicts in Ukraine and Georgia on the Euro-Atlantic or Eurasian Orientation of the Two Countries - Comparative Study" Este painel contou com a moderação de Ayla Gol da CESRAN International, UK and Nottingham University, UK.

O painel discussion teve como tema "Impacts of Covid-19 on Greater Eurasia" e contou com a participação de: Andrea Carteny | The Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Bruno CArdoso Reis | ISCTE-IUL, Portugal Luis Tomé | UAL, Portugal Mark Meirowitz | SUNY Maritime College, USA Marlene Laruelle | The George Washington University, USA Este painel contou com a moderação de Luís Nuno Rodrigues, Director of Center for International Studies (CEI-ISCTE/IUL), Portugal.