Zagreb 2025

Varazdin Development and Entrepreneusrhip Agency & Medimurje University of Applied Sciences in Cakovec

First Call

We are happy to announce the First Call for the International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development - "Resilience in an Unsustainable World: Shaping the Future". Topics are focused, but not limited to recent challenges in modern national economies and business enterprises.

In cooperation with: Faculty of Management University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences Sale - Mohammed V University in Rabat, ENCGT - Ecole Nationale de Commerce et de Gestion de Tanger/ Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Polytechnic "Nikola Tesla" in Gospic, University of Aveiro and GOVCOPP – University of Aveiro


  18-19 December, 2025

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Please consider submitting an abstract for the Conference within next few weeks. We proudly hope to have your distinguish name among authors and participants. After receiving the full texts, The Scientific Committee will decide which papers should be included in the Plenary Session.

Sincerely Yours, President of Scientific Committee
Prof. Marijan Cingula

Topics

Resilience in an Unsustainable World: Shaping the Future

  • Environmental Degradation and Global Instability: A Looming Crisis
  • Sustainability in an Unsustainable Society
  • Systemic Injustices: Unequal Opportunities in a Globalized World
  • Unjust Wealth Distribution: Origins, Consequences, and Mitigation
  • Conflicts and Warzones: Escalations, Trends, Impacts, and Solutions
  • Readiness, Response and Recovery in Health Crises
  • Disaster and Emergency Management
  • Cybersecurity and Mobile Security: Vulnerability Management
  • Financial and Cryptocurrency Frauds: Emerging Threats and Security Measures

Globalization and Challenges of the Modern World

  • Contemporary Economy and Globalization
  • The Economic Impact on Social Development and Democracy
  • Regional Development
  • National Economies Between Liberalization and Intervention
  • International and Local Capital Markets
  • Education and Knowledge Management
  • Towards Modern Welfare Economics
  • Modern Tendencies in Economy and Management of Tourism

Enterprise in Turbulent Environment

  • Building a Resilient Organization
  • The Economics of Modern Enterprise
  • Planning or Predicting: Concepts and Models
  • Corporate Governance
  • Manufacturing: Strategy, Technology, and Organization
  • Human Capital Management
  • Marketing Perspective
  • The Legal Environment of Business
  • Business Continuity
  • ICT Support to Business Activities
  • Corporate Finance
  • Accounting and Auditing

Entrepreneurship Caught Between Creativity and Bureaucracy

  • The Role of SMEs in National Economies
  • SMEs in Global Value Chains
  • Education for Creativity

Fees

ATTENDING FEES:

  • Publishing Full paper/Abstract + presentation: 450 EUR
  • Presentation without publishing: 350 EUR
  • Accompanying co-author: 250 EUR
  • Listener only: 300 EUR

PUBLISHING ONLY:

  • Publishing full paper, without attending: 300 EUR

DISCOUNTED FEES:

  • Early registration (Publishing Full paper or Abstract + presentation): 400 EUR
  • 2nd paper publishing/presenting: 250 EUR

Attending fee includes admission to all sessions, conference kit (including the Scientific Book of Proceedings on CD), admission to the lunch or/and dinner, plus all coffee breaks, according to the conference program.

Conference Fee is not refundable. Payed amount can be used as a stored credit for any of our upcoming conferences.

Payment

  • Bank Institution: Raiffeisenbank Austria d.d. Zagreb
  • Bank/Branch Institution Address: Magazinska cesta 69, Zagreb, Croatia
  • S.W.I.F.T. (BIC): RZBHHR2X
  • Acc. Holder Name: VADEA d.o.o.
  • Acc Holder Address: Mihanoviceva 4, 42000 Varazdin, Croatia
  • IBAN: HR6124840081135190251
  • Purpose: 'Participant's Name - Zagreb 2025'

Deadlines

  • Submission of abstracts for review: October 15, 2025
  • Notification of abstract acceptance: October 20, 2025
  • Submission of complete/full papers for the proceedings: December 5, 2025
  • Notification of full paper acceptance: December 10, 2025
  • Early registration: December 5, 2025
  • Final registration: December 10, 2025
  • Conceiving and finalizing the esd-Conference program: December 13, 2025
  • ESD Conference sessions: December 18-19, 2025

Program

Program will be available few days before the conference.

Venue

Hotel Dubrovnik - Lj. Gaja 1, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Committees

  • Info
  • dcingula@esd-conference.com
  • +385 (0)92 172 7218
  • info@esd-conference.com

Economic and Social Development Conference is property of VADEA,
Varazdin Development and Entrepreneurship Agency