ECEMP 2026
Climate Change, Energy Security and Competitiveness: Modelling an energy system under stress
21-22 October 2026, Brussels and online
The EU aims to reach GHG neutrality by 2050. The conflict in Ukraine raises the question of energy security in the EU. And, the industry faces strong competition outside of the EU. The challenge for policy makers and modelers alike is to find solutions that are aligned to all of these issues and goals. This year’s ECEMP edition seeks for collaboration between models and modelers to study more than the energy system alone, including competitiveness, strategic resources, policies and social justice.
Themes and topics
ECEMP 2026 is dedicated to showcasing the latest policy-relevant findings derived from analyses and models. The event serves as a meeting point to discuss the latest research trends and collaborations. The topics and themes are therefore centered around (but not limited to):
- Competitiveness and climate, reconciling the green energy transition and competitiveness of European industries in a changing global context.
- Strategic resources, import versus self sufficiency, circular economy, synergies and barriers between the energy transition and security of supply of energy and raw materials.
- Near-term Policies, the feasibility of policies and the post 2030 climate energy framework under various social, technical and economic constraints.
- Social justice, the social aspect of the energy transition in different policies and modelling approaches.
- Market interaction, practical implementation of the green energy transitions, the entrance of emerging technologies in already saturated markets.
- Interoperability, certification, comparison and collaboration of energy system models.
- Interaction of energy and climate models, joint modelling of climate-energy scenarios, stress testing the decarbonised energy system and providing insights for “critical infrastructure”.
- Interaction of energy and integrated assessment models, linking the results of models.
Format
Just like the previous years, the ECEMP is organized as a hybrid event in Brussels. Attendance in Brussels is aimed at presenters and associated projects. Everyone else is invited to join online.
Scientific, industry and policy contributions to the conference are most welcome. In general, we recommend to avoid presentations of planned research, but rather aim for experiences and results.
Abstracts can be presented at the conference without uploading a full paper, as this is not a requirement. Authors of approved abstracts may be invited to submit papers to special issues of a journal yet to be announced.
Your information and the work you want to submit, can be shared through the button above. The button will lead you to a Google form. You only need a Google account when you want to submit your pdf through this form as well (our preferred approach). Otherwise you can send us your work through mail (instructions in the Google form without Google account).
Timeline
| Begin call for abstracts | February |
| Deadline call for abstracts | June 12 |
| Acceptance notification | August |
| Final registration and submission presentation | September |
| Deadline submission paper (optional) | December |
Contact
ECEMP Organizing Committee: Tars Verschelde (KUL, Belgium), Pedro Crespo del Granado (NTNU, Norway), Niina Helisto (VTT, Finland), Erik Delarue (KUL, Belgium), Johannes Emmerling (ECMF)
For further information please contact us at: ecemp@ecemf.eu.
ECEMP 2026 is organized by various projects under the Horizon Europe programme, DGs at the European Commission and other initiatives. The main projects organizing and leading ECEMP 2026 under a joint effort:
