XVII EAAE Congress
The congress took place in beautiful and cosy Rennes from Tuesday August 29 until Friday September 1. The Board of the EAAE would like to thank the local organising committee and scientific committee for the well-organised and scientifically interesting congress. It was very nice to meet and exchange ideas with collaegues after covid. The Board was also happy to signal the participation and interesting contributions of a large number of young people showing our association has a bright future. The congress was really a success! We look forward meeting you again at the XVIII congress that will be held in Bonn in 2025.

SEMINARS AND CONGRESSES
10th EAAE PhD Workshop Budapest 2024, 5-7 June
The PhD workshop in Budapest welcomes PhD students at any stage of their PhD, as well as students who just completed their PhD at the time of the workshop. Both scientific program and themes will be defined in more details in the next months by the Scientific Committee. The workshop accepts two different types of submissions. In the “finished papers” submission, students present the papers that have been selected for this format (20 minutes for each presentation), and the discussion will be opened by a discussant (10 minutes for each paper) - papers will be distributed in advance. This a ”classic type” of full paper submission considered by most conferences. In the “paper proposals” submissions, the time allocated for each presentation and discussion is 15 minutes. These types of submissions include a broad idea and basic research concept, presented in 5 minutes, followed by a 10 minutes discussion. A website of the workshop with detailed information (fees, location, etc.) will be available starting from October 2023. Contact: Prof. Attila Jambor Chair of the LOC, attila.jambor@uni-corvinus.hu 
 

IATRC Annual Meeting 2023, 10-12 December
The 2023 IATRC Annual Meeting is scheduled for December 10-12, 2023, as a hybrid meeting again at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater Beach, FLorida. The theme is “The Future of (Ag-) Trade and Trade Governance in Times of Economic Sanctions and Declining Multilateralism” and the organizing committee members are Sylvanus Afesorgbor (University of Guelph), Annelies Deuss (OECD), Fabio Santeramo (University of Foggia), and Sandro Steinbach (North Dakota State University). Jonathan Coleman (U.S. International Trade Commission) will organize the non-theme sessions and Missy Sullivan (University of Minnesota) will handle administrative logistics. More information can be found at: iatrc.umn.edu/save-the-date-2023-iatrc-annual-meeting

68th Annual Conference of AARES 2024, 6-9 February
The 68th Annual Conference of AARES will be held in Canberra, Australia from 6 to 9 February 2024. The conference theme is “Grand challenges at the frontier of applied economics”. More information on on the conference is available on: www.aares.org.au/AARES2024

32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE 2024) 2024 2-7 August
New Delhi, India, https://icae2024.in/home/

Call for Papers
The International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) will hold its next triennial conference, the 32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE 2024), from 2-7 August 2024 in New Delhi, India, on the overall theme “Transformation Towards Sustainable Agri-Food Systems”. ICAE 2024 will feature invited and contributed papers and sessions on topics such as healthy and sustainable diets, technological and institutional innovations, agroecology, gender roles and social equity in agri-food systems, environmental and social externalities of value chains, the true cost of food, development of a sustainable bioeconomy, and novel approaches and methods in agri-food systems research and policy analysis, among others.
Many top-notch speakers from all parts of the world have already confirmed their participation. ICAE 2024 invites submissions of Contributed papers (full paper), Contributed posters (extended abstract), Organized symposia (symposium overview), and Pre-conference workshops (workshop overview) by 15 January 2024. Details can be found on the ICAE 2024 website at: https://icae2024.in/home/.  IAAE will support qualifying junior scholars from the Global South with accepted academic contributions through travel stipends to be allocated on a competitive basis.

Introduction EAAE Board 2023-2026
At the General Meeting in Rennesthe following Board members were installed:
José Gil | President
Paolo Sckokai | Vice-President
Jack Peerlings | Secretary General
Wim Verbeke | Treasurer
Romano Donato | Member
Attila Jambor | Member
Sinne Smed | Member
Marija Cerjak | Member
Linde Götz | Member
Doris Läpple | Member

ERAE information
The European Review of Agricultural Economics now accepts review articles, and the ERAE Editors welcome proposals for review articles from EAAE members. Review articles should provide a comprehensive and scholarly account of a topic that has direct relevance to agricultural economics (methodological or applied) and that has not recently been covered in the literature. A pre-submission
enquiry is required. If you are interested in writing a review article for ERAE, please send an abstract, outline, and key references to erae.editorialoffice@oup.com

Q Open makes progress
Our open access journal Q Open is making progress:
• We have been informed by Scopus that they have accepted Q Open for indexing. This is an important first step in being included in the major indexes and achieving an impact factor.
• We have a new manuscript transfer arrangement with the ERAE. Manuscripts submitted to the ERAE, but considered a better fit with the objectives of Q Open can now transferred directly for consideration for publication.
• Q Open is also well on track to reach key-performance indicators on growth in the number of manuscripts and in the turn-around time for review.

Finally, we need further support from you.
Q Open invites EAAE members who have written a paper for the EAAE congress in Rennes to submit the paper to the journal. We hope to publish many of the papers before the end of the year. See our website for submission details: https://academic.oup.com/qopen

The Editors (Iain, David, Erwin, Phoebe and Vincenzina)

EAAE Seminars
12/2-16/2, 2024 EAAE seminar 186: System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

Non-EAAE events
Course | Food and health policy analysis using home-scan data | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 4-8 December 2023.
Course | Economic and Policy of Trade and Climate Change | Fiesole | Italy | 2-5 October 2023.
Congress | 17th International Conference of the HAAE | Thessaloniki | Greece | 2-3 November 2023.

Vacancies
NEW | 2 years postdoc position | PSAE and LAMASUS | France | closing date 30 November 2023
NEW | Associate Research Fellow | IFPRI | Nairobi of Washington, DC | Kenya | closing date 8 December 2023
NEW | Postdoc position 2 | University of Florence, Roma | Italy | closing date 31 December 2023
NEW | Postdoc positions 3 | University of Basilicata, Firenze, Genoa | Italy | closing date 31 December 2023