THE FoE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE,
16th Edition Topic: "THE WORLD ECONOMY IN TURMOIL"
23 – 24 October 2025

The Faculty of International Business and Economics,
Bucharest University of Economic Studies

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We are pleased to announce the launch of the 16th edition of the FoE International Conference, which will take place on 23-24 October 2025, at the Faculty of International Business and Economics, Bucharest University of Economics Studies, Romania. Continuing the tradition of previous editions, we aim once again to bring together faculty members, researchers and experts from around the world to debate this year’s topic, “The World Economy in Turmoil”, over the course of two days.

The Conference is centered around the following themes, but not limited to them:
- The global economic system under pressure: global governance reform
- Challenges for EU governance and enlargement
- Global trade fragmentation and restoring
- Energy crises and green transitions
- Strategies for building more inclusive and sustainable economic systems
- Sustainable finance regulations and their effectiveness
- Financial market volatility and debt crises
- Macroprudential policy tools and financial stability
- Health issues in economics
- Demographic transitions and their economic consequences
- Technological disruptions and innovation: impact on the world economy

Important deadlines:
- Early bird paper submission: September 1, 2025
- Notification of paper acceptance/reviewers’ observations: October 5, 2025
- Final paper submission (with revisions implemented) & conference fee payment: October 15, 2025

Please visit frequently the conference website https://rei.ase.ro/cercetare/conferinte/foe/ for new announcements.
We are looking forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you at the conference!


Conference chair:


Executive Conference Chair


Conference Panel Chairs:

Panel Innovation, Resilience and Sustainability in European and International Business


Panel The Economics and Political Economy of European Integration and Globalization


Sub-Panel The Economics and Political Economy of European Integration and Globalization - Regional Economic Resilience: Theoretical Boundaries, Factor Complexity, and Assessment Challenges


Panel Applied Macroeconomics and Financial Resilience


Forum Challenges in Supply Chain in CEE countries / Défis de la chaîne d'approvisionnement dans les pays d'Europe centrale et orientale


Information For Authors

Submitted papers should be up to 8,000-10,000 words including abstract, keywords and references (the Harvard referencing rules need to be followed).

Submitted papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed by our reviewers based on originality, significance, clarity and technical quality. Once accepted for presentation at the conference and revised according to reviewers’ suggestions, papers may be selected for publication in the journals listed here, subject to the authors’ approval.

The selected papers will be forwarded to the editorial board of the respective journal with a recommendation for publication. However, each paper will still undergo the journal’s specific peer-review process, and authors will be notified if additional revisions are required.

The paper must be uploaded in doc or docx format.

All articles must be written in English. If English is not your first language, we recommend verifying your paper with Writefull.

All papers submitted to the conference must be original works and must not have been previously presented or submitted to other journals or conferences.

More information about the conference fees (bank accounts, etc.) is available https://rei.ase.ro/cercetare/conferinte/foe/conference-fees-copyright-statement/


If you are not registered please follow the steps below

Step 1. On-line Registration and Authentication. Deadline: 1st of September 2025

To participate to the FoE International Conference you must first register on-line on this site.

The Registration Form contains: Personal data (name; first name; institution; title; e-mail, password).

Due to the large number of papers expected for this conference, the Conference Committee prefers that an author presents maximum two papers and each paper requires a registration fee.

NOTE! The e-mail and the password provided in the Registration Form will be used to authenticate on the site whenever you access the Conference registration site.


After the authentication on the site, you have to submit your paper/s by filling in the uploading form of each paper (edited in accordance with the Model paper), NO LATER than 1st of September 2025. Please note that this is a FINAL date. Earlier submission is encouraged as it helps us to manage the review process in a timely manner. This is of particular importance if you will need a visa to attend the conference.

This form contains:

1. Author's data:

  • Scientific title, NAME and first name (e.g.: Prof.Dr. POPESCU Ion, Associate Prof.Dr. POPESCU Ion);
  • Contact address, telephone number and e-mail;
  • Institution (affiliation).

2. Data regarding the paper registered/uploaded:

  • The type of the paper (Full-paper with presentation at the conference or Extended Abstract with presentation of research at the conference); Extended Abstract is a longer version of a typical abstract, providing more in-depth information about your research. It should be a well-structured and comprehensive summary of your work, conveying its main points, methodology, findings, and conclusions.
  • The Title of the paper;
  • The panel the paper is affiliated with;
  • The Abstract - will be inserted in the form;
  • The key words;
  • The paper's code corresponding to JEL classification.

3. The paper edited in accordance with the requirements (see the Model paper).
After uploading the full paper, you will receive a submitting notification e-mail.

Step 2. Reviewing the uploaded papers. Notification of acceptance / reviewer’s recommendations. Deadline: 5th of October 2024

After uploading the full paper/s, all papers will be double-blind reviewed by members of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference The Future of Europe, to ensure an adequate scientific standard, that the paper is of a suitable length, the standard of English is adequate and the paper is appropriately referenced. For authors whose first language is not English we recommend verifying your paper with Writefull. Papers can be rejected due to a poor standard of English.

After the double-blind reviewing process, the Scientific Committee and panel chairs will send a notification e-mail of paper/s acceptance or rejection to the author/s. The author/s whose paper/s is/are accepted will contain the notification of paper/s acceptance (with any requested changes after the double-blind reviewing process). The final papers with revisions (if requested by reviewers), must be uploaded on the platform by October, 15th.


Step 3. Acknowledgement of the fee payment for the accepted papers. Deadline: 15th of October 2025

After receiving the e-mail containing the notification of paper acceptance (see above Step 2), you have to confirm the payment of the participation fee NO LATER than 15th October 2024.

Fees are payable in advance.

The accepted papers for publication have to be presented at the FoE Conference, providing at least one author completes registration (including payment) - see the registration section above.

In order to confirm the payment, you have to access the registration site of the Conference, on the account created by you at Step 1, where you have to introduce in the form the information regarding the payment (Receipt no., Bank Payment Order no. etc.) and also you will have to attach in a scanned format the document proofing your payment. Also you have to download and fill in the Copyright Statement, sign it and upload it on the platform.

Here you can find a list for The FoE 2025 Conference fees and the Copyright Statement https://rei.ase.ro/cercetare/conferinte/foe/conference-fees-copyright-statement/


Step 4. The Conference. 23 - 24 October 2025

If you passed the above-mentioned steps, we look forward to welcome you to the Future of Europe International Conference for the paper/s presentation!.