Organized by University of Craiova, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, together with its partners: European Institute for Advanced Behavioural Management (EIABM), Saarland University; University of Piraeus, Greece; AFER Romania, Doctoral School in Economic Sciences, University of Craiova 

The conference is equally addressing to practitioners from business environment, economic and political decision factors, academics from the economic higher education, students and PhD students enrolled in economic fields. The aim of the Conference is to create opportunities for scientific debates based on the latest economic trends and developments at European and international levels. Acknowledging and appreciating the interest and contribution to the knowledge and development of economic advanced research and practice, the organizers invite you to participate in the 8th iCOnEc Conference. The aims of the conference are:

• Stimulating the dissemination of existing information and research results made by the teaching staff of our faculty, partner institutions and all the participants to this scientific conference;
• Encouraging the higher education teaching staff, researchers, Master students, PhD students to contribute to the identification of short, medium and long term solutions;
• Structuring, grounding, testing and applying new mathematic models and development strategies of the national economy within risking and uncertain conditions generated by the current economic crisis;
• Identifying some research fields and new possibilities of collaboration and cooperation within the most important areas of the economic life at a national and European level;
• Shaping new projects of collaboration between researchers and teaching staff with the main goal of raising the interest of the business environment for the higher education oriented towards the realities of the economic lives.