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.

We welcome submissions of high-quality, unpublished manuscripts exploring topics such as, but not limited to:

• Principles and Metrics of Regenerative Economies: New economic thinking, wellbeing indicators, and frameworks to assess regenerative outcomes;
• Circular Economy and Systems Innovation: Designing out waste, regenerating natural systems, and promoting circular business models;
• Green and Blue Transitions: Interactions between land-based and marine ecosystem regeneration, clean energy, agroecology, and sustainable mobility;
• Place-Based Innovation and Territorial Cohesion: Local development strategies rooted in community engagement, cultural assets, and social equity;
• Regenerative Finance and Investment: Blended finance, impact investment, green and nature-related financial disclosures, and novel funding instruments for long-term regeneration;
• Resilient Infrastructure and Nature-Based Solutions: Integration of green infrastructure, water systems, and biodiversity into urban and rural planning;
• Labor Markets and Skills for Regenerative Development: The role of green jobs, care work, community organizing, and lifelong learning;
• Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge Systems: Valuing local and ancestral wisdom in regenerative practices and decision-making;
• Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation for Regeneration: Business models, cooperatives, and startups contributing to environmental and social restoration;
• Health, Wellbeing and Inclusive Development: Intersections between planetary health, mental and physical wellbeing, and regenerative practices;
• Regional Integration and Governance: Policy coordination, participatory institutions, and cross-border cooperation for a regenerative transition;
• Regenerative Cities and Rural-Urban Synergies: Rethinking spatial development for circularity, food systems, housing, and mobility;
• Brain Capital and Natural Capital Nexus: Leveraging human cognition, skills, and creativity in harmony with natural systems for inclusive regeneration.

Papers addressing regional complementarities, integration, and policy coherence between Europe, the Mediterranean, and Africa are especially encouraged.

The Euro-Mediterranean and African Network of Economic Studies (EMANES) promotes research supporting long-term socio-economic visions that are inclusive, transparent, sustainable, equitable, employment-driven, and regenerative. Contributions that align with the broader EMANES research agenda are welcome, including:

• Institutions and labor markets
• Role of MSMEs in inclusive development
• Social business and inclusion
• Health and wellbeing policies
• Creative, cultural, and knowledge economies
• Low-carbon and circular economies
• Human capital, migration, and job creation
• Regional integration and resilience
• Scenario analysis and economic foresight

Deadline for Submission: October 10, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: November 10, 2025
Registration Deadline (accepted author): November 15, 2025
Conference dates: December 10 (half day), 11–12, 2025
Submit by email to: emanes.conference@euromed-economists.org