The
XXI Congress of the World Economy Society World Economy will be held on June 12, 13 and 14, 2019, organized by the Department of Management and Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities and the University of Beira Interior, Portugal.
Its theme is “Sustainable Growth, Competitiveness, Innovation, Tourism and Welfare – New Challenges for the World Economy”.
The congress will take place on the Campus of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences
of the University of Beira Interior, at Estrada do Sineiro s / n, Covilhã, in the center of Portugal and relatively close to Spain (next to and halfway to the provinces of Cáceres and Salamanca).
The Organizing Committee hopes that some of the best communications can be published
in a special issue of the World Economic Review magazine by the WES-World Economy Society / SEM-Society for World Economy, indexed to the ISI / JCR and SCOPUS.
Plenary sessions and round tables and parallel sessions are planned for presentation
of papers, articles and ‘papers’. Applications are also accepted for the organization of special thematic sessions in areas proposed by competitors, but whose communications must always be approved by the Scientific Committee of the congress. This committee
brings together renowned national and foreign researchers and a vast work published internationally.
As in previous years, the José Luís Sampedro Prize will also be awarded although
with some changes compared to previous years (see details of the regulation).
There will be other complementary activities, such as the holding of workshops
/ workshops / plenary conferences and round tables whose topics are currently under discussion and approval.