The Conference is organized into four main tracks or themes

TRACK 1 - Local Government: Trends, Challenges and Innovations - This track aims to examine and to discuss current practices, challenges, and innovations in local and urban governance, and to compare local government systems and practices, and its recent reforms, including those associated with digitization, in different economic systems or varieties of Capitalism, in the North and in the Global South.

TRACK 2 - The Responses of Local Governance to the Global Climate Emergency - This track seeks to address the challenges and the policy responses to Climate Change / Climate Emergency, in the field of local and urban governance.

TRACK 3 - Local Government Response Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic - This track aims to explore and to discuss the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on local government and the local policy responses for the post-pandemic.

TRACK 4 - Local Governance, Spatial Planning and Development - This track examines and discusses the role of spatial planning in shaping multi-level territorial governance and the local policy agenda.