The Innovation Forum, organized annually by the Research Network on Innovation (RNI), explores how economics, management, social sciences, and engineering sciences address new challenges, processes, or domains of innovation. The central theme of this edition will be systemic innovation, an essential approach to tackling major contemporary challenges. These challenges primarily relate to the impacts of human activity on the climate, with damages already deemed “irreversible,” according to the IPCC (2022b). 

In this particular context, the RNI 2025 Young Researchers’ Day, organized as part of the Innovation Forum 2025, will take place on October 13, 2025, at the EDC Business School campus in Paris. This event aims to mobilize a new generation of Francophone researchers around the question : “How can universities become indispensable institutions for the emergence and dissemination of responsible innovations?”

The RNI 2025 Young Researchers’ Day will offer a unique opportunity to bring together researchers specializing in the proposed themes, enabling them to exchange ideas in small groups about their research work and inspire new and relevant lines of inquiry.

This event is aimed at all young researchers (PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows) within the French-speaking academic community, particularly those affiliated with institutions that are members of the AUF (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie). Participants will be selected based on their submitted communications. The target audience includes PhD candidates as well as francophone early-career researchers aged 35 or under who have defended their doctoral thesis within the past five years.

Deadline submission of Proposals : April 30, 2025

Conference : October 13, 2025

Organizing Committee : Valentine GEORGET, Valérie MEUFEU TOWO, Dave MOBHE BOKOKO

Scientific Committee : Details available here