We are pleased to invite you to the 28th International Conference ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS AND SUSTAINABILITY.
The conference is held on March 26 – 27, 2026. It crosses traditional discipline boundaries and involves a wide variety of interactions ranging from traditional academic disciplines or schools of thought to the reality of business. Many of the issues discussed provide innovative ideas and combine the best academic thinking with the industry expertise development in financial services, public sector/government, information and communications technologies.
Keynote Speaker
Gonul Colak
Professor, Head of Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Sussex Business School
Conference Organization
The conference is held in English. Authors are welcome to submit original and unpublished research papers. Best papers will be invited for a submission to selected journals and Conference Proceedings. The submission of full paper is obligatory for presentation at the ECOS conference. Conference participants are expected to serve as discussants of a paper of another conference participant, but it is not a typical review. You will receive the paper some time ahead to have time to read it and then to encourage the discussion at the conference parallel session.
Conference Outputs
Conference proceedings of full papers.
Conference participants will have the opportunity to send their papers presented at the conference for publishing in one of these journals:
- EJOBSAT (ISSN 2336-6494 Print, ISSN 2694-7161 Online) indexed in Scopus, RePEc, DOAJ
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Review of Economic Perspectives (ISSN 1213-2446 Print, ISSN 1804-1663 Online) indexed in WoS, Scopus, ERIH+, EconLit, EBSCOhost, RePEC and other databases
Only the high-quality papers successfully passing a review process will be considered for publishing.
All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review.
Important Dates
Registration opening: 6. 10. 2025
More information is available in the section Registration & Payment.
Session proposals: 17. 11. 2025
EARLY registration and paper submission deadline: 1. 12. 2025
EARLY notification about acceptance: 11. 12. 2025
EARLY registration payment deadline: 18. 12. 2025
STANDARD registration and paper submission deadline: 12. 1. 2026
STANDARD notification about acceptance: 2. 2. 2026
STANDARD registration payment deadline: 13. 2. 2026
Conference: 26. - 27. 3. 2026
Best Paper Competition
Eligible for participation is every paper with completed succesfull registration and which is accepted to the presentation at the conference ECOS 2025 according to current Terms and Conditions. More information you can find here.
Conference Fields
- Capital Markets, Corporate Finance & Accounting
- Circular Economy in Corporate Finance
- Cybersecurity as a Pillar of Resilience and Sustainability
- Digital Transformation and Sustainability
- Economic Policy
- EU Investment Competitiveness and Productivity
- Law and Economics
- Leadership and Sustainable Workforce
- Public Finance & Taxes
- Sustainable Consumer Behaviour
Scientific Conference Board
- Ing. Peter Albrecht (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
- Ing. Irena Baláková, Ph.D. (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
- doc. Ing. František Dařena, Ph.D. (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
- prof. Ing. Petr David, Ph.D. (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
- prof. Jan Fidrmuc, PhD (University of Lille, France)
- prof. Dr. Jarko Fidrmuc (Zeppelin University, Germany)
- prof. RNDr. Jan Hanousek, CSc. (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
- Dr. Florian Horky (Zeppelin University, Germany)
- prof. Ing. Lubor Lacina, Ph.D. (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
- prof. Karsten Neuhoff, Ph.D. (German Institute for Economic Research, Germany)
- doc. Ing. Svatopluk Kapounek, Ph.D. (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
- Mgr. Martin Lakomý, Ph.D. (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
- Ing. Radek Náplava, Ph.D. (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
- Mgr. Bc. Ondřej Pavelek, Ph.D. (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
- doc. Ing. Bc. Mojmír Sabolovič, Ph.D. (Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic)
- prof. Mgr. Ing. Magdalena Daria Vaverková, Ph.D. (Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland)
- prof. Steven J. Yamarik, PhD (California State University Long Beach, USA)
Organisation Board
Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
- prof. Ing. Petr David, Ph.D.
- Ing. Hana Vránová
- Mgr. Silvie Trávníčková
- Ing. Barbora Šiklová
- Ing. Andrea Prudilová
Contact: ecos@mendelu.cz