Split 2025

Varazdin Development and Entrepreneurship Agency & University North

First Call

We are happy to announce the First Call for International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development "Shaping the Future of Sustainable Shipping – Green Transition and Technological Developments". Topics are focused, but not limited to recent challenges in modern national economies and business enterprises.

Co-organizer / Co-publisher: Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Split


  23-24 October, 2025

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Please consider submitting an abstract for the Conference within next few weeks. We proudly hope to have your distinguish name among authors and participants. After receiving the full texts, The Scientific Committee will decide which papers should be included in the online Plenary Session.

Sincerely Yours,
Organizing Committee President

Domagoj Cingula

Topics

Conference specific topics

  • Marine Engineering
  • Navigation
  • Maritime Safety and Security
  • Marine Ecology and Blue Economy
  • Energy Efficiency and Green Shipping
  • Impact of Emerging Technologies and Sustainable Development on Maritime Education and Training
  • Transportation and Logistics
  • Management of Marine Systems
  • Port Economics, Management and Policy
  • Nautical and Cruising Tourism
  • Information Technologies in Shipping
  • Marine Automation and Electronics
  • Bleeding-Edge Technologies and Innovation
  • Applied Mathematics and Programming
  • Autonomous vessels
  • Maritime Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
  • Maritime Law
  • Maritime Healthcare
  • Human Resources in Maritime Transport
  • Maritime Education and Training
  • Marine Defense

Globalization and Challenges of the Modern World

  • Contemporary Economy and Globalization
  • The Economic Impact on Social Development and Democracy
  • Regional Development
  • National Economies Between Liberalization and Intervention
  • International and Local Capital Markets
  • Education and Knowledge Management
  • Towards Modern Welfare Economics
  • Modern Tendencies in Economy and Management of Tourism

Enterprise in Turbulent Environment

  • Building a Resilient Organization
  • The Economics of Modern Enterprise
  • Planning or Predicting: Concepts and Models
  • Corporate Governance
  • Manufacturing: Strategy, Technology, and Organization
  • Human Capital Management
  • Marketing Perspective
  • The Legal Environment of Business
  • Business Continuity
  • ICT Support to Business Activities
  • Corporate Finance
  • Accounting and Auditing

Entrepreneurship Caught Between Creativity and Bureaucracy

  • The Role of SMEs in National Economies
  • SMEs in Global Value Chains
  • Education for Creativity

Fees

ATTENDING FEES:

  • Publishing Full paper/Abstract + presentation: 450 EUR
  • Presentation without publishing: 350 EUR
  • Accompanying co-author: 250 EUR
  • Listener only: 300 EUR

PUBLISHING ONLY:

  • Publishing full paper, without attending: 300 EUR

DISCOUNTED FEES:

  • Early registration (Publishing Full paper or Abstract + presentation): 400 EUR
  • 2nd paper publishing/presenting: 250 EUR

Attending fee includes admission to all sessions, conference kit (including the Scientific Book of Proceedings, Online version).

Conference Fee is not refundable. Payed amount can be used as a stored credit for any of our upcoming conferences.

Payment

  • Bank Institution: Raiffeisenbank Austria d.d. Zagreb
  • Bank/Branch Institution Address: Magazinska cesta 69, Zagreb, Croatia
  • S.W.I.F.T. (BIC): RZBHHR2X
  • Acc. Holder Name: VADEA d.o.o.
  • Acc Holder Address: Mihanoviceva 4, 42000 Varazdin, Croatia
  • IBAN: HR6124840081135190251
  • Purpose: 'Participant's Name - Split 2025'

Deadlines

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING DEADLINES:

  • Submission of abstracts for review: September 7, 2025
  • Notification of abstract acceptance: September 12, 2025
  • Submission of complete/full papers for the proceedings: October 7, 2025
  • Notification of full paper acceptance: October 12, 2025
  • Early registration: October 12, 2025
  • Final registration: October 17, 2025
  • Conceiving and finalizing the esd-Conference program: October 20, 2025
  • ESD Conference sessions: October 23-24, 2025

Program

Program will be available few days before the conference.

Venue

University of Split, Faculty of Maritime Studies, Ruđera Boškovića 37, 21000 Split, Croatia

Committees

  • Info
  • dcingula@esd-conference.com
  • +385 (0)92 172 7218
  • info@esd-conference.com

Economic and Social Development Conference is property of VADEA,
Varazdin Development and Entrepreneurship Agency