This year, the Conference is scheduled for one day online – November 20, 2025.

On-line, free access. Links will be send by e-mail only for registerred participants!

The Event will consist of three around 1-1:15 hrs panels including lectures, followed by discussions or question and answer sessions. We plan fifteen-minute breaks between them.

The draft program below includes presentations that have already been accepted. The order of panels will be announced once the list is completed. Please stay tuned for updates.

  • 10:00 – Opening of the Conference
  • Chambers in Transition: Institutional Renewal and Policy Engagement in HungaryPéter Krisztián Zachar (Prof. Ludovika – University of Public Service, Hungary)
  • The Failure of the Hybrid Model of Chambers of Commerce in Spain – Iván Medina (Prof. Universidad de Valencia, Spain), Joan Pere Plaza (Prof. ESCI-UPF, Spain), Rosa Nonell (Prof. Universidad de Barcelona, Spain)
  • Neglect, voice, vote, and lots – trends in membership in chambers of commerce with mandatory membership – Detlef Sack (Prof. Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany)
  • Chambers of Commerce in the Baltic States, Poland and Belarus. Current status. Comparative study – Jonas Pupius (PhD candidate, Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Lithuania), Piotr Marciniak (Assistant Prof. ILS PAS, Poland)
  • Chambers of commerce as inclusive institutions. Models, challenges and requirements – Piotr Marciniak (Assistant Prof. ILS PAS, Poland)
  • 14:30 – Summary of the 4th Conference



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