EURINT 2026 special sessions
[-] Regional Pathways in the Green and Digital Transitions
Chairs: Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (London School of Economics and Political Science); Alexandra Sandu (London School of Economics and Political Science); Maria Tsouri (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) Across Europe, green and digital change is progressing unevenly. Some regions manage to combine decarbonisation, digital uptake, and socio-economic change, while others struggle with delayed growth, widening disparities, or political tension. This special session aims to bring together work that reflects on these different regional experiences, without assuming a single or linear twin transition path. We invite empirical and conceptual contributions that examine regional development under twin transition pressures, including questions of resilience, governance, labour markets, skills and education, innovation, infrastructure, and social inclusion. Papers may take comparative or place-based perspectives, draw on long-term data, or focus on specific regional contexts. The session aims to offer an open space for discussion across disciplines, linking academic research with current EU debates on cohesion, competitiveness, and just transition policies. To register for this special session, please follow the instructions on this webpage. The deadline for registration: 1 March 2026[-] Mechanisms of Inequality: Organizational, Technological, and Institutional Dynamics in
Contemporary Europe
Chairs: Professor, PhD Oana Carmen Țugulea; Phd. Student Diana Dănăilă; Phd. Student Elena Silvaș (căs. Constantin) (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) This special session examines how do organizations, technologies, and institutions function when structural inequalities persist despite cohesion goals? Rather than prescriptive solutions, we create an analytical space for understanding the processes and mechanisms through which inequalities are maintained, transformed, or challenged across European contexts. We approach inequalities as structural conditions affecting differential access to resources, information, technology, and institutional capacity. Individual and collective behaviors - of digital natives, employees, entrepreneurs, and consumers are examined as embedded within organizational and technological contexts rather than isolated phenomena.The session focusses on: Contextualizing Inequalities (examining how crisis communication, risk, and uncertainty interact with existing disparities); technological and organizational Responses (investigating AI applications, neuromarketing innovations, and institutional strategies) and on synthesis and Implications (identifying cross-cutting patterns through moderated roundtable discussion). By encouraging interdisciplinary dialogue among emerging scholars the session supports reflection on building a Europe that is both economically dynamic and socially cohesive. To register for this special session, please follow the instructions on this webpage. The deadline for registration: 1 March 2026[-] CITY-Focus special session | Shaping Smarter Cities: the CITY-FOCUS Experience
Chairs: Alexandru Bănică, Cristian Încălțărau, Gabriela-Carmen Pascariu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) The special session focuses on the current changes in cities and metropolitan areas in the European Union in the context of multiple challenges related to climate change, military conflicts and economic crises. This session is organised in the framework of the research project: City-Focus - City: Future Organisation of Changes in Urbanisation and Sustainability, project code CF 23/27.07.2023, financed through National Recovery and Resilience Plan for Romania within project call – PNRR-III-C9-2023-I8 PNRR/2023/Component 9/Investment 8. [Financed by the European Union – NextGenerationEU] Read more.
[-] About Europe - Young researcher Special session - dedicated to bachelor and master students
awarded within the Students scientific sessions in European studies
Chairs: Bogdan Ibanescu & Ciprian Alupului (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) Since 2022, the EURINT international conference has included a special section dedicated solely to undergraduate and master's students, known as the "Young Researchers Session." This session showcases the award-winning works presented at the student conference.[-] SAGES special session | SAGES: research insights and future directions
Chairs: Ramona Tiganasu, Bogdan Ibanescu, Mihaela Clincu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) This special session is dedicated to well-being and highlights the need for interdisciplinary perspectives to assess and integrate it in various policies. Within the session we aim to explore diverse ways of shaping well-being by examining its determinants, spatial inequalities, natural capital, and socio-economic dynamics. This session is organised in the framework of the research project: SAGES: Spatial Analysis of Growth, Environment and Sustainable Well-being – code CF 20/27.07.2023, contract no. MCID – DGGCPNRR 760275/26.03.2024, financed through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan Call no. PNRR-III-C9-2023 – I8_runda 2 Read more.
[-] Regional Pathways in the Green and Digital
Transitions
Chairs: Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (London School of Economics and Political Science); Alexandra Sandu (London School of Economics and Political Science); Maria Tsouri (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) Across Europe, green and digital change is progressing unevenly. Some regions manage to combine decarbonisation, digital uptake, and socio-economic change, while others struggle with delayed growth, widening disparities, or political tension. This special session aims to bring together work that reflects on these different regional experiences, without assuming a single or linear twin transition path. We invite empirical and conceptual contributions that examine regional development under twin transition pressures, including questions of resilience, governance, labour markets, skills and education, innovation, infrastructure, and social inclusion. Papers may take comparative or place-based perspectives, draw on long- term data, or focus on specific regional contexts. The session aims to offer an open space for discussion across disciplines, linking academic research with current EU debates on cohesion, competitiveness, and just transition policies. To register for this special session, please follow the instructions on this webpage. The deadline for registration: 1 March 2026[-] Mechanisms of Inequality: Organizational,
Technological, and Institutional Dynamics in
Contemporary Europe
Chairs: Professor, PhD Oana Carmen Țugulea; Phd. Student Diana Dănăilă; Phd. Student Elena Silvaș (căs. Constantin) (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) This special session examines how do organizations, technologies, and institutions function when structural inequalities persist despite cohesion goals? Rather than prescriptive solutions, we create an analytical space for understanding the processes and mechanisms through which inequalities are maintained, transformed, or challenged across European contexts. We approach inequalities as structural conditions affecting differential access to resources, information, technology, and institutional capacity. Individual and collective behaviors - of digital natives, employees, entrepreneurs, and consumers are examined as embedded within organizational and technological contexts rather than isolated phenomena.The session focusses on: Contextualizing Inequalities (examining how crisis communication, risk, and uncertainty interact with existing disparities); technological and organizational Responses (investigating AI applications, neuromarketing innovations, and institutional strategies) and on synthesis and Implications (identifying cross-cutting patterns through moderated roundtable discussion). By encouraging interdisciplinary dialogue among emerging scholars the session supports reflection on building a Europe that is both economically dynamic and socially cohesive. To register for this special session, please follow the instructions on this webpage. The deadline for registration: 1 March 2026[-] CITY-Focus special session | Shaping Smarter
Cities: the CITY-FOCUS Experience
Chairs: Alexandru Bănică, Cristian Încălțărau, Gabriela-Carmen Pascariu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) The special session focuses on the current changes in cities and metropolitan areas in the European Union in the context of multiple challenges related to climate change, military conflicts and economic crises. This session is organised in the framework of the research project: City-Focus - City: Future Organisation of Changes in Urbanisation and Sustainability, project code CF 23/27.07.2023, financed through National Recovery and Resilience Plan for Romania within project call – PNRR-III-C9-2023-I8 PNRR/2023/Component 9/Investment 8. [Financed by the European Union – NextGenerationEU] Read more.EURINT 2026 special sessions
