The International Research Network on Organizations and Sustainable Development (RIODD) will hold its twentieth conference (https://riodd.net/) in Toulouse in 2025.

This edition is organized in partnership with the University of Toulouse Capitole and the University of Toulouse. It will be held in Toulouse from October 8 to 10, 2025.

Thursday, October 8, 2025, is reserved for doctoral sessions and will be subject to a specific call. The congress will thus run from the evening of October 8 to October 10, 2025.

Congress website: https://riodd2025.sciencesconf.org/

Contact email: riodd2025@sciencesconf.org

Call for proposals

To present your work at the twentieth RIODD Congress:

It is possible to propose thematic sessions related to the congress theme (or related to the general theme of RIODD, namely the links between organizations and sustainable development). We will receive proposals by email or direct submission on the site until March 25, 2025.

Specific calls for communications for thematic sessions will be posted on the congress website and distributed like the general call for communications from April 5, 2025. Communications related to a thematic session should be submitted on the congress website in a reserved tab.

Any communication proposal outside thematic sessions, related to the call for communications or the general themes of RIODD, will be considered. The congress thus proposes a thematic orientation that is not exclusive. Calls for thematic sessions and communications are addressed to all disciplines in human and social sciences, but also to other concerned disciplines, notably engineering sciences, natural and earth sciences.

Calendar reminder

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Tuesday, March 25, 2025 : Deadline for thematic session proposals (open)

Friday, March 21, 2025 Friday, April 4, 2025 : Launch of the call for communications proposals

Friday, May 23, 2025 : Deadline for communication proposals

Friday, July 4, 2025 : Notification of the Congress Scientific Council's decision

2025 RIODD Congress theme:

Navigating Conflicts and Convergences: Unraveling the Dynamics of Social Acceptability in Socio-Environmental Transitions

The Anthropocene age marks a tipping point in the Earth system, the beginning of the great acceleration leading to the exceeding of planetary boundaries. International scientific expertise - the IPCC for climate change and IPBES for biodiversity - warns of the need for profound changes in our ways of living, eating, moving, producing, consuming, and living in general. However, the most recent data indicate that we have exceeded the 1.5°C warming threshold, while the great collapse of biodiversity is confirmed. Most planetary boundaries are thus exceeded. What is blocking progress?

This 20th RIODD congress will therefore focus on the description and analysis of organizational modes that facilitate or block socio-environmental transitions in order to identify levers for action, by questioning the notion of social acceptability. It invites participants to address these questions through a diversity of approaches (theoretical and conceptual approaches as well as qualitative and/or quantitative empirical work) and in a plurality of perspectives (from the angle of actors promoting changes as well as those opposing them) and scientific disciplines. Particular attention will be paid to ongoing experiments where involved actors put social acceptability to work and seek original and innovative ways of doing things.

This congress thus invites a broad approach to phenomena, also taking into account the evolution of the geopolitical context, the multiplication of armed conflicts, the questioning of the rule of law, the polarization of our societies, the growing vulnerability of certain populations, in short, what makes us collectively accept the unacceptable. While the subject is of great topicality in Europe, the examination of historical cases and international comparisons will provide valuable insights.

See the full call for proposals

Thesis Prize and Best Case

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