The Conference brought together special envoys and coordinators on combating antisemitism, Jewish communities as well as members of the European Commission working group on hate crime that EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) facilitates. The event was hosted by Austrian Federal Minister for EU and Constitutional affairs, Karoline Edtstadler.

To date, special envoys and coordinators from 11 EU Member States (AT, DE, CR, ES, HU, IT, LV, LU, NL, ROM, SK) have joint the avant-guard group to develop the methodology by signing the Vienna Declaration denouncing antisemitism, highlighting the threat to our democracy, promoting knowledge sharing and developing a common methodology for recording antisemitic incidents. Further Member States are expected to join.