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.

Conference Fields

• Capital Markets, Corporate Finance & Accounting
• Corporate Economy & Modern Corporate Governance
• 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

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 Outputs

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

• Review of Economic Perspectives (ISSN 1213-2446 Print, ISSN 1804-1663 Online) indexed in WoS, Scopus, ERIH+, EconLit, EBSCOhost, RePEc and other databases

• MENDELU Working Papers in Business and Economics (copyrights remain at the authors' side), indexed in RePEc

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All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review.

Best Paper of ECOS 2026 Competition

Eligible for participation is every paper with completed succesfull registration and which is accepted to the presentation at the conference ECOS 2026 according to current Terms and Conditions. More information you can find here.

Venue

Campus of Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, Brno, Czech Republic

Language

English

Contact

E‑MAIL: ecos@mendelu.cz

WEB: ecos.mendelu.cz