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2026 T7: Cooperating in a brutal world

Think7 (T7) is the official G7 engagement group bringing together leading think tanks and research centres to provide practical, evidence-based recommendations to G7 decision-makers. 

In 2026, IDDRI and the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) are joining  forces to coordinate the T7 for the French G7 Presidency.

Against a backdrop of heightened geopolitical tensions and rapidly shifting alliances, fostering dialogue has become both more difficult and more needed. In this context, engaging among G7 countries and beyond is essential to maintain channels of exchange and rebuild trust in an increasingly fragmented world.

This year’s T7 is bringing together around 50 organisations from G7 members plus Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey, Kenya, Switzerland and Spain.

T7 communiqué & solutions papers

Geopolitical tensions, climate-related crises, and the rise of artificial intelligence are reshaping and intensifying global economic interdependencies. The challenge is not to disentangle these interdependencies—a process that would likely prove both costly and illusory—but rather to manage them more effectively, so that national strategies do not result in collectively suboptimal outcomes.

Under the French G7 presidency in 2026, two priorities take center stage: reducing global imbalances and reforming development finance through mutually beneficial partnerships. In this context, Think7 (T7), which brings together more than 50 think tanks from G7 countries and beyond, put forward practical recommendations across four areas: industrial policy coordination, the future of development finance, economic security, and the governance of innovation and artificial intelligence.

Read the Communiqué

Advancing T7 recommendations: see the key milestones and meetings 

The T7 is structured around four pillars that respond to the French G7 Presidency, two managed by IDDRI and two by ECFR. These pillars comprise thematic task forces that will carry the work. They deliver short solution papers (one per Task Force) with practical recommendations and a final communiqué to inform G7 discussions in the run up to the G7 Summit of 15-17 June in Evian. Documents will be made available on this page that will be updated throughout the year.

ECFR’s dedicated T7 webpage

 

 

We know that G7 work is a very ambitious task, and that we will definitely need the support of civil society, non-governmental institutions and, not least, think tanks, as they are the ones most likely to bring forward ideas that we may not yet have.

Raphaël Noiray, Head of the G7/G20 Mission, International Summit

 

 

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T7-U7 outcome document

The present note is the outcome document of the Think7-Urban7 roundtable Resilient cities: derisking investments and enhancing insurability held at the Urban7 Summit in Nancy, June 4, 2026. This joint Think7 and Urban7 initiative connects think tanks, cities and the private sector from G7 and G20 to discuss concrete technological, financial, and policy issues and solutions to strengthen a muti-scale approach to resilience. Based upon the present note, the roundtable will further feed in the 2026 United Nations High Level Political Forum (HLPF) and the T20.

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With the financial support of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
 

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