Following the first conference of December 2025 at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), this year’s edition focuses on droughts as a systemic hazard generating risks across ecosystems, infrastructures, health, food systems, the economy, governance, and social equality. In November 2025, CERAC published the Belgian Climate Risk Assessment (BCRA), which illustrates how droughts play a role in 12 out of 28 key risks. Although “drought” may sound narrow, its cascading effects relate to nearly all planetary boundaries as well as multiple related societal systems.

Below follows a non-exhaustive list of some relevant drought-related topic examples:

• Ecosystems & Environmental Dynamics

• Food Systems

• Infrastructure & buildings

• Health, Human Rights & Social Dimensions

• Economy, Finance & Governance

• Systemic & Cross-Cutting Perspectives

Submissions should be submitted before June 10th, 2026. CERAC and a scientific committee covering all universities will select abstracts in early Summer and publish the program and registration form in September 2026.

Further information : here