The meeting constitutes the first joint event by the ELI and UNIDROIT this year and will be followed by two more public Project-related events in 2018. On 5–7 September 2018, the ELI Annual Conference in Riga (Latvia) will host a panel on the Project. Later, on 26–27 November, a public Conference will be held in Trier (Germany) in cooperation with the Academy of European Law (ERA), preceded by closed working sessions for participants in the Project.