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The 19th Jonas Pranas Aleksa international interdisciplinary scientific conference

“DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE ROLE IN THE XXI CENTURY: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT”
Main topic of the conference “Democracy in Decline? Security, Trust, and Resilience in Times of Uncertainty”
9th of October, 2026; Šiauliai Academy of Vilnius University (Vytauto str. 84, Šiauliai, Lithuania)

 

Institute of Regional Development of Šiauliai Academy of Vilnius University and partners kindly invite scientists, researchers and practitioners to take the part in the international interdisciplinary scientific conference, which is dedicated to the 147th birth anniversary of Professor Jonas Pranas Aleksa. Participants will share insights from newest research and practice on the challenges to democracy, especially in the areas of security, trust and resilience. The conference will include interdisciplinary discussions in such fields as public governance, public policy, economics, management, etc. This year again a separate European Regional Studies Association (ERSA) Baltic section working group will be organised, focusing on the resilience and competitiveness of regions in the era of uncertainty.

Conference will be held in the hybrid mode: face-to-face in VU Šiauliai Academy (Vytauto str. 84, room 413, Šiauliai, Lithuania) and online mode via MS Teams.

 

Please, fulfil the online Participant Registration Form until September 27th, 2026: 
For more information you may contact organisers: Anželika Gumuliauskienė, e-mail anzelika.gumuliauskiene@sa.vu.lt

 

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Economic Research Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences invites you to the International Scientific Conference 2026 on the theme: "Economic Development and Policies: Realities and Prospects. Global Uncertainty, Economic Transformations, and Technological Change"

The conference will take place on 23–24 November 2026 at the premises of the Economic Research Institute (3 Aksakov Street, Sofia, Bulgaria).

Here is the invitation to the conference. Additional information is available here.

The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing in Web of Science and Scopus. Only papers that are relevant to the conference theme and comply with the formatting and referencing requirements published on the conference website will be accepted for publication.