The Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) wants to create a platform for European citizens to address the most important challenges for the future of the EU. In a joint declaration, the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission declared to follow up on the recommendations made by the conference. It should reach conclusions by spring 2022 but first, the conference set-up and scope must be defined to start the process in May 2021. In this policy paper, the author Julian Plottka explains how to make the CoFoE a ground-breaking experiment of transnational deliberative democracy.