Porto & North Forever pact
Designed for Global Impact
The Porto & North Forever Pact is more than a legacy initiative — it’s an open invitation to co-create change. Born from Porto’s spirit of discovery and collaboration, the Pact connects global innovation with local action, turning the ICCA Congress 2025 into a living lab for how events can leave measurable, human, and lasting impact.
Together, we’re charting a new course, a more inclusive, innovative, and sustainable future for our business events industry — one that continues long after the final session.
The Three Tracks of Change
Each track of the Porto & North Forever Pact offers a different way for you to get involved and make a difference — to experience, contribute, and help shape the legacy of the ICCA Congress 2025.
1. Inclusion
Belonging. Opportunity. Empowerment.
Because inclusion starts with participation — and it starts with you.
Our Shared Objectives
- Empowering vulnerable talents and communities through real participation in the Congress workforce.
- Co-designing an event model where everyone belongs — including people with disabilities, neurodivergent participants, and the LGTBIQ+ community.
- Fostering inclusive event design skills among delegates, suppliers, and organisers.
How You Can Engage
- Join social integration initiatives with local partners creating real job opportunities for vulnerable talent.
- Experience accessible, universal design across venues and sessions.
- Learn to see events through the eyes of underrepresented communities.
- “Learn to Break” with local youth, connecting art and inclusion through creative collaboration.
- Wear a lanyard crafted by participants in social reintegration —a small symbol of empowerment and shared purpose.
Every connection helps build a more inclusive global events community.
2. Innovation & Creativity
Curiosity. Collaboration. Creativity.
Because innovation happens when people connect across borders and disciplines.
Our Shared Objectives
- Inspiring local youth, students and emerging leaders to pursue careers in the Business Events industry.
- Strengthening international collaboration and creative production through local and global partnerships.
- Highlighting Porto & North’s creative identity as an open destination for ideas, art, and exploration.
- Meet local moderators, MCs, and speakers during the event, reflecting the region’s diverse voices and creative leadership.
- Join the Creative Edge track: where performances and co-creation labs merge art, tech, and human connection, learning to look at the industry in a different way.
- Meet and support students and professors, the (emerging) leaders shaping the future of business events. Exchange with them about challenges and opportunities in the industry!
- Enjoy one of the many artistic performances within the congress — showcasing the region’s creative vitality.
- Smile at our local ambassadors: a citywide network of passionate hosts and volunteers helping you to make the most of your experience.
3. Well-being
Responsibility. Regeneration. Harmony.
Because sustainability is not a goal — it’s a shared responsibility.
Our Shared Objectives
- Spreading the economic benefits of the Congress across the Porto & North region.
- Improving liveability and well-being for residents, stakeholders, participants, and visitors.
- Reducing CO₂ emissions and resource impact through smart mobility, responsible sourcing, and circular practices.
- Supporting physical and mental well-being for all stakeholders involved — from staff to suppliers.
How You Can Engage:
- Participate in the congress programme across iconic and community venues throughout the city, ensuring that every neighborhood touched by the event benefits socially, culturally, and economically.
- Join the Smart Mobility Plan: swap your Uber for a metro, tram, or even a water taxi — and discover the city sustainably. Or even embrace the Walking Congress concept, connecting venues while exploring local neighbourhoods.
- Learn how carbon tracking and circular sourcing practices reduce impact through EarthCheck’s green production programme.
- Participate in the Well-being Programme: mindfulness, care initiatives, and recognition for staff, suppliers, and volunteers.
At this event, every action you take contributes to a regenerative model of events.
Together, for a Bigger Purpose
By joining the Porto & North Forever Pact, you’re part of a movement proving that business events can create shared value — including people, inspiring innovation, and caring for communities and the planet.
Be part of the Porto & North Pact — together, forever.
The Forever Pact Ecosystem
Partners and Change-Makers
The Porto & North Forever Pact is powered by a diverse network of partners — institutions, municipalities, universities, creative industries, and social organizations — who share one common purpose: to make every event a catalyst for positive change. Together, they bring this vision to life through collaboration, expertise, and commitment
The Forever Pact Ecosystem
Partners and Change-Makers
The Porto & North Forever Pact is powered by a diverse network of partners — institutions, municipalities, universities, creative industries, and social organizations — who share one common purpose: to make every event a catalyst for positive change. Together, they bring this vision to life through collaboration, expertise, and commitment
Impact & Legacy Consultant Partners
Meet4Impact · Vale Consultores
Methodological
design, impact strategy, and legacy measurement for social and environmental
outcomes
Inclusion & Training
Capacity
building, skills certification, volunteer and workforce integration programmes
Social Inclusion & Community Empowerment
Social
reintegration, accessibility, and inclusion through art, design, and community
participation
Art, Creativity & Cultural Expression
Local Artists · Street Artists · Ballet Douro · Griffin · Ocubo · Agora – Cultura e Desporto · Municipality of Barcelos · Municipality of Gondomar · Caretos de Podence · Municipality of Miranda do Douro · Municipality of S. João da Madeira · Vinhos Verdes Municipality of Viana do Castelo · Municipality of Vila Verde · Municipality of Lamego
Artistic
performances, traditional heritage expressions, and creative activations
merging contemporary art, technology, and cultural identity
Sustainability & Logistics
Municipality of Porto · Andante Tour · AIM Group International · Btrust · STCP · EarthCheck
Smart
mobility planning, sustainable production standards, carbon measurement, and
circular logistics implementation
Legacy & Destination Partners
Strategic
governance, regional coordination, and international promotion of the Congress
legacy
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