III Workshop - Digital transformation in the public sector

CISTI'2026 - 21st Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
Santiago de Compostela, Spain (and online), 17-20 June, 2026
https://cisti.eu/

Dear PSAAR friends, 

We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to III Workshop - Digital transformation in the public sector included in CISTI'2026 - 21st Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (and online), between the 17th and 20th of June 2026.

Authors are encouraged to submit original scientific contributions such as state-of-art reviews and new research perspectives, groundbreaking ideas and/or architectures, solutions and/or applications for real problems, empirical and/or evaluation works, case studies, etc., in conformity with the themes of this workshop. The articles can be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese. 

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Dear PSAAR friends,

The  European Accounting Association Public Sector Accounting Committee  (EAA PSAC) is organizing an online event entitled “AI’s emerging role in public sector financial and sustainability reporting: Implications for practice and research” on Monday, 19 January 2026 at 4.00 pm CET. 

The panelists who are prestigious speakers from academia and the profession are the following (in alphabetic order):

• Deborah Agostino. Associate Professor in Accounting Finance and Control at Politecnico di Milano
• Anatoli Bourmistrov. Professor in Accounting and Management Control at Nord University Business School
• Tjerk Budding.Full professor Public Sector Accounting at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vriej University Amsterdam 
• Tomas Müller-Marqués Berger. Chair of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board, IPSASB  
• Arman Vatyan. PEMPAL Program Leader, PULSAR Program Manager, the World Bank

The moderator of the panel is Sandra Cohen, professor of Accounting at Athens University of Economics and Business and the Chair of EAA PSAC.

The duration of the event is expected to be up to one and a half hours. The event is taking place under the auspices of EAA.

The registration of the event is already open at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZnxDqXudRPuy32fbj6FgAg

Looking forward to meeting you in the event to discuss about the future of public sector financial and sustainability reporting through an AI prism.

Dear PSAAR friends,

We are glad to announce the 18th CIGAR Workshop in 2026, which will be held in June 22-24, 2026, in Valletta, Malta, at the University of Malta at the Valletta Campus | St Paul’s Street.

The workshop theme is “Financialisation and measurement in public sector financial reporting and management accounting”.

Organizing Committee: Josette Caruana and Lucienne Bugeja

As usual, the Workshop is combined with the PhD Colloquium that will take place on the 22th of June while the works of the Workshop will take place on 23-24 June 2026.On the 24th of June, in the afternoon the IPSASB Research Forum will be held.

Important dates

• Deadline for abstract submissions - 31 Jan. 2026
• Deadline for acceptance of abstracts -28 Feb. 2026
• Deadline for full papers - 30 April 2026

For more information, don't hesitate to contact Josette Caruana (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Lucienne Bugeja (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or visit the Workshop’s website at https://www.um.edu.mt/events/cigarnetwork2026/

Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to inform you that there is a special issue running in Meditari Accountancy Research on the main topic “ACCOUNTING INFORMATION USE IN PUBLIC SECTOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT”, which stands out and calls for innovative pieces of research in the area.

The guest editors Susana Jorge (University of Coimbra, PT), Sandro Brunelli (University of Roma Tor Vergata, IT), Eugenio Caperchione (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT), and Liliana Pimentel (University of Coimbra, PT) would like to invite your entity to spread the voice of this SI and to encourage your members and associates to propose valuable research and make the related submission(s).

Further information can be found in the following link: 

https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/accounting-information-use-public-sector-financial-management

The deadline for full paper submissions is December, 31st 2025. 

Accepted papers will be published on a rolling basis and the related journal issue will be released in the late 2026 or early 2027.

The guest editors

Susana Jorge

Sandro Brunelli

Eugenio Caperchione

Liliana Pimentel

Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to let you know about the call for papers for the 6th CIGAR-PMM Annual Issue, which will be published in 2026.

The CIGAR–PMM Annual Issue is not tied to a particular theme. The aim is to publish relevant empirical and theoretical articles on topics related to public sector accounting understood broadly, highlighting the contribution of the CIGAR Network’s research to academia and practice and aiming to bridge the research-practice gap in the fields of public sector accounting and financial management.

The CIGAR annual issue is one of PMM’s eight yearly issues. PMM is aimed at both the public management and public finance communities and was launched over 45 years ago to bridge the gap between research and practice. Its reach is fully international. On the public finance practitioner side, PMM is CIPFA’s official journal and all CIPFA members and students have free access to all content.

An important advantage of publishing in the CIGAR–PMM Annual Issue is that PMM’s publisher makes its entire content free to view for three months after publication.

The editorial team of the CIGAR-PMM Annual issue consists of Marco Bisogno, Josette Caruana, André Lino, Susana Jorge, and Gorana Roje.

Papers for consideration in the sixth CIGAR–PMM Annual Issue should be submitted by 31 October 2025, through PMM’s electronic submission system: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rpmm, selecting the ‘CIGAR ANNUAL PMM ISSUE’. The anticipated publication date is October 2026 (PMM’s Vol. 46, No. 7).

Papers coming from the 20^th CIGAR Biennial Conference hosted in Athens by Sandra Cohen and Sotirios Karatzimas will be particularly welcome. An article summarising the conference is expected to be included in the CIGAR–PMM Annual Issue.

As with all PMM issues, the CIGAR–PMM Annual Issue will also include Debate and New Development articles. Both should be submitted through PMM’s electronic submission system by 28 February 2026.

For further information, please contact Marco Bisogno (Guest Contact Editor) at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Dear PSAAR friends,

We are pleased to inform you that our next EGPA PSG XII Spring Workshop will be held in Coimbra, Portugal, on May 8-9, 2025 at the University of Coimbra - Faculty of Economics (FEUC). Please save the date.

The theme of the workshop is:

BACK TO BASICS: ACCOUNTING INFORMATION USE IN PUBLIC SECTOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

The Workshop’s website is available at:

https://www.uc.pt/feuc/egpa-psg-xii-spring-workshop-2025/

KEY DATES:

Abstracts should be submitted to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For more information please contact the Workshop local organizers at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Organizing Committee and the Co-Chairs of the EGPA XII Permanent Study Group