Program Overview

We are pleased to provide a high-level overview of the SOCIN 2026 conference program to assist with your preliminary planning. A comprehensive agenda — including specific presentation and workshop schedules, speaker lineups, and session locations — will be published as soon as it is finalized.

In the meantime, we invite you to review this general itinerary to help you plan your conference attendance and your stay in Warsaw.

Day 1 — Wednesday, October 21, 20026

Understanding Transformation

8:30-9:00 Coffee and registration

9:00-10:00 Opening Ceremony

10:00-11:00 Keynote Lecture — Professor Marion Thain

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:30 Academic Presentations – parallel sessions

Session 1: Artificial Intelligence and Socio-Technical Systems
Session 2: Migration, Borders, and Humanitarian Crises
Session 3: Collective Ownership, Local Resilience, and New Economic Models
Session 4: Corporate Accountability, Law, and Systemic Transparency

13:30-14:30 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 Panel Discussions

Panel 1: Tech4Good
Panel 2: Research4Society. ERUA research clusters invite to Science Cafe

15:00-16:30 Poster Sessions

15:00-17:00 Information Session: Funding for ERUA Research Clusters

16:30-16:45 Coffee Break

16:45-18:15 Matchmaking Session: Collaboration networking

Day 2 — Thursday, October 22, 2026

From Ideas to Collective Action / Shaping Transformation

08:00-11:00 Thematic workshops / study visits

Ten interactive sessions engaging participants in collaborative learning and problem-solving. Open only to registered participants. We will notify you, when separate workshop registration opens.

11:00-11:45 Coffee break

11:45-12:00 Opening of Day Two

12:00-13:30 Keynote Lecture — Professor Frank Moulaert

13:30-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-16:30 Academic Presentations

Four parallel sessions – topics TBA

16:30-16:45 Coffee break

16:45-18:00 Round Table Discussion

18:00-18:15 Q&A Session and Closing of Day Two

Day 3 — Friday, October 23, 20026

For members of ERUA Research Clusters and Work Packages

9:00-9:45 Educational Initiatives for Research Cluster — ERUA WP2 Presentation

9:45-10:00 Coffee Break

10:00-11:30 Research Clusters Session

10:45-12.45 Student Session: Design Thinking in Social Innovation

12:45-13:45 Lunch Break

Internal working meetings of the Research Support Network (RSN)

13:45-17:00 Internal working meeting of Research Clusters