Cork (Ireland), will host the 12th International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in 2027 with satellite gatherings in Covilha (Portugal) and Cluj-Napoca (Romania).

After yearly conferences in Zagreb (2023), Pontevedra (2024) and Oslo (2025), the Support Group of the International Conferences on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity decided to slow down and to organise the next one in 2027. In February, a call for expressions of interest was launched also inviting the applicants to explore new creative formats which may be more inclusive and open, more practical and culturally, socially, and politically impactful. Cork, Ireland, was chosen to host the next International Degrowth Conference in 2027.

As in 2018, in an open process with the applicants, it was decided to also organise complementary and articulated regional and thematic gatherings in Covilha, Portugal, and Cluj-Napoca, Romania. A fourth gathering is pending. Further details will be announced soon!

Networks from Malta and France also applied. The former were invited to organise a smaller scale event next year focusing on Degrowth and mass tourism, whilst the team in France would explore the organisation of a conference in 2028 for the 20th anniversary of the first edition of the international degrowth conferences.

Further information, when announced, can be found here: https://degrowth.info/en/conference/cork-2027