Asserting the future: public policies for Portugal, volume I and II, is Institute of Public Policy’s first book, in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and respects to the final product of the project Asserting the future. Specialists from the most diverse areas of public policies integrated a long process of study, reflection and debate, now assembled in these two volumes, which counted on Paulo Trigo Pereira and Viriato Soromenho-Marques as coordinators of these works.