This may be of interest to those working at the intersection of ‘systems’ and ‘evaluation’ and/or public policy: the Call for Abstracts for hashtag#EES2026 is now open: https://lnkd.in/dNieqnzz
Submissions are accepted until 31 March 2026. The conference takes place in Lille (France), 26-30 October 2026.
Do consider submitting an abstract to share relevant work with the evaluation community gathering there.
Since 2025, EES has been a member organisation in the IFSR, and relevant contributions from the ‘systems’ field to the conference are very welcome and desired! One of the main themes of the conference is “Systemic Learning: Complex societal challenges demand more than isolated interventions. Therefore, this conference will allow us to explore system-level approaches that drive transformational change, and how evaluators can navigate complexity while maintaining accountability and learning, which is critical to healthy democracies.”
Several accepted strands may align with your proposals, including one from EES’ Thematic Working Group on ‘systems approaches in evaluation’.
More information also here.
Go to ‘Call B’ to submit proposals.
It would be great to see many participants joining from the systems community, for further cross-fertilization between these two meta- and transdisciplines, who can mutually benefit from learning from and with each other, and join forces.
Systems Community of Inquiry 