BACKGROUND
The EMANES Annual Conference provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to explore socio-economic trends and regional integration in Europe, the Mediterranean, and Africa. Each year, the conference focuses on a key theme reflecting global transformations. The 2025 edition will delve into the concept of regenerative economies—a paradigm that moves beyond sustainability, aiming to restore and enhance the ecological, social, and economic systems upon which prosperity depends.
**EMANES Annual Conference 2025 website: https://conference2025.emnes.org **
This year’s theme responds to growing calls for holistic approaches that not only reduce harm but actively restore natural systems, strengthen communities, and build economic resilience. In a time marked by climate change, conflict, digital disruption, and inequality, regenerative development offers a compelling vision for a future rooted in renewal, interconnectedness, and wellbeing.
For more on past EMANES Annual Conferences, visit: https://conference2025.emnes.org/previous-conferences
AIMS AND TOPICS
The EMANES Annual Conference 2025 invites contributions that explore how regenerative economic approaches can transform the socio-economic landscape of Europe, the Mediterranean, and Africa. These approaches promote systemic change, balancing human and environmental needs, circularity, equity, and local resilience while leveraging innovation, entrepreneurship, and inclusive governance.
Regenerative economies emphasize not just climate mitigation or adaptation, but restoration, reciprocity, and resilience. They require rethinking how value is created and measured—prioritizing wellbeing, cultural richness, biodiversity, and planetary boundaries alongside productivity and growth. Within this framework, the EMANES 2025 Conference seeks papers that engage with new metrics, financing mechanisms, institutional models, and community-led strategies that enable regenerative development.
This year’s conference aims to:
- Advance the theoretical and practical understanding of regenerative economies;
- Explore the transformative potential of circularity, nature-based solutions, and place-based innovation;
- Investigate the socio-economic and institutional reforms needed to operationalize regenerative development;
- Promote partnerships across the EU-Mediterranean-Africa region to co-create inclusive and prosperous futures.
Important dates
Deadline for Papers Submission: October 31, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: November 10, 2025
Registration Deadline (accepted author): November 15, 2025
Conference dates: December 10 (half day), 11–12, 2025
**EMANES Annual Conference 2025 website: https://conference2025.emnes.org **
**EMANES Annual Conference 2025 Call for Papers: https://conference2025.emnes.org/call-for-papers **
This year’s EMANES Annual Conference will be hosted in Barcelona by the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA) and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), in collaboration with the Circular Economy and Climate Institute of the European Public Law Organisation – EPLO, and the EU Funded Projects ReForest (Project Nr. 101060635) and CROSS-REIS (Project Nr. 101136834).
