From 22 to 25 June 2025, the 25th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) took place at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Florence, Italy. This prestigious event brings together leading scholars and researchers in the field of management from across Europe.

This year’s conference theme was “Managing with Purpose”. Presentations and discussions focused on topics such as entrepreneurship, family business, inclusion and diversity in organisations, innovation management, international management, organisational behaviour and human resource management, research methods and practice, strategic management, and more.

For the second consecutive year, the Vice-Rector for International Relations and Development at Kazimieras Simonavičius University (KSU), Deimantė Žilinskienė, participated in the EURAM conference as a panellist and speaker in a symposium panel discussion. Her presentation was entitled “Career, Purpose, Fulfilment – Professional Biographies in Management Research and Education.”

Other participants in the panel discussion included Prof Dr Albrecht Fritzsche (IEDC – Bled School of Management, Slovenia), Frederike Scholz (HU University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands), Joanna Szulc (Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland), and Miguel Pérez Valls (University of Almería, Portugal).