Dear colleagues,

we kindly invite researchers, practitioners and organisations to attend the 6^th Foundational Economy Conference “Exploring the Foundational Economy for a Just Transition” that will be held in Vienna from the 14^th to 16^th September 2023! The deadline for uploading contributions is the 15^th of April 2023.

Contributions ...

-  individual or co-authored academic (theoretical-conceptual, methodological and/or empirical) papers
-  individual or co-authored policy papers
-  self-organised thematic sessions with 2-3 academic and/or policy papers as well as
-  self-organised panel sessions focussing on practice

... on all topics relating to the Foundational Economy, and particularly submissions addressing the following themes and issues:

- Feminist perspectives on care and the Foundational Economy
- Industrial ecosystems in support of the Foundational Economy
- Digital infrastructures and the Foundational Economy
- Energy infrastructures and systems, including issues of governance and regulation
- The dialectics of growth and shrinking: the Foundational Economy and post-growth approaches
- Challenges for public budgets & finance in enabling the transformational potential of the Foundational Economy
- Intersectoral and cross-sectoral approaches for the Foundational Economy

Please visit the conference website for more information and a first tentative schedule of the conference: https://www.tuwien.at/ar/ifip/fec23

Papers and session proposals can be submitted here: https://www.conftool.net/fec23/

We kindly ask you to distribute the invitation and the call for papers and contributions in your organization, your networks or mailing lists that you consider suitable.

We would be very happy to meet many of you in Vienna.

Best wishes,

Michael Getzner, TU Wien