9th Annual Conference

We are pleased to invite you to the 9th Annual Conference of the Association for socioeconomic education and research (AS*EER), held at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences on September 14–15, 2026.

The long-cultivated self-image of economics as a value-free discipline – a standard in large parts of the field – has proven untenable, and not only since the various crisis phenomena of modern global economies. Economic modeling is inevitably based on normative assumptions; even core concepts such as rationality, efficiency, growth, or welfare carry underlying values that require reflection. Nevertheless, the role of normativity, values, and ethics in economics and economic education remains far from resolved. Even the multidisciplinarity of socio-economics does not always find it easy to navigate its own normative dimension.

We therefore invite submissions that critically examine normativity in socioeconomics and the economic sciences and develop perspectives for a normatively informed socio-economic education.

Contributions may adopt different perspectives and address various fields, for example

• A realistic and desirable approach to value judgments in socioeconomics
• Normativity and schools of thought in the field of economic research
• Latent and inherent normativity in socioeconomics
• Normativity as an interdisciplinary topic spanning socioeconomics, philosophy of economics, business ethics, and philosophy of science
• Power and normativity in public economic discourse and policy consulting
• Normativity in higher education and approaches to dealing with value judgments
• Normativity in textbooks, schoolbooks, and teaching and learning materials
• Values and ethics in relation to sustainable development
• Normativity in the politics, pedagogy, and practice of financial education

The two keynote speeches at the event will be delivered by Prof. Dr. Susanne Hahn and Prof. Dr. Christian Neuhäuser.

Organisatorisches

Please submit an abstract for the conference by May 17, 2026, via 2026@soziooekonomie-bildung.eu. The abstract should be in German or English and be between 200 and 300 words in length. Please include the names of all authors, their email addresses, institutional affiliations, and keywords. You will receive notification regarding your submitted abstract (acceptance/rejection) in the course of June.

All authors are invited to submit their abstracts simultaneously for the 12th special issue of the AS*EER. You can find the call for papers for the special issue here.

A PhD Orientation Workshop will be held as part of the conference. The workshop provides fundamental guidance on the requirements, procedures, and framework of a doctoral project. We invite not only current PhD students but also, and explicitly, individuals who are considering pursuing a doctorate for the first time.

Please note that the primary conference language is German.

Monday, September 14, 2026
until
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Venue: 

Hochschule Osnabrück (Prof. Dr. Johannes Hirata, Prof. Dr. Christoph Schank)

Call for Papers (PDF): 

Available for download here

Registration for the conference:

https://eveeno.com/gsoebw2026

Speaker: 

Susanne Hahn
Christian Neuhäuser

Program: 

Coming soon

Accommodation:

Coming soon