On behalf of the organizing committee of the 25th International Scientific Conference "Engineering for Rural Development", it is our honour and pleasure to invite you to participate in the conference, which will be held on May 27-29, 2026, at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Jelgava, Latvia.
Registration is available at the homepage of the conference (http://conferences.lbtu.lv/en). Note that registration is possible using on-line form only. The registration is possible until January 15, 2026. The Organizing Committee will not consider the applications sent after this date.
Summary of the report should be between 1500 and 2000 printed signs and should contain a description of the problem, methods and main results of the research. The primary conformity assessment of articles is based on the submitted summary.
The decision about the compliance of the report with the topics of the conference and inclusion in the program will be reported to the authors before February 01, 2026, with the requirements for the articles enclosed.
There will be two options for participation: on-site and on-line. The sections rooms will have online conference equipment so that both report types will be possible.
The topics of the conference are as follows:
· Agricultural machinery
· Husbandry
· Renewable and conventional energy
· GHG emission, waste management
· Agroengineering technologies, mechanisms
· Control systems
· Material science
· Transport and logistics
· Fuels and technical liquids
· Modelling and simulation
· Applied ICT in engineering
· Engineering economics
· All similar engineering and technology studies
The conference will be held on May 27-29, 2026, at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Jelgava, Latvia. You can find more information on the conference homepage at https://erdev.lbtu.lv/.
All accepted conference papers are abstracted and indexed in databases:
Elsevier SCOPUS, Thomson Reuters Web of Science, AGRIS, CAB ABSTRACTS, CABI full text, EBSCO Academic Search Complete and etc..
Don`t hesitate to share this information and invite your colleagues, too!
We look forward to your participation.
Cordially yours,
Aivars Aboltins , Dr.sc.ing.
Chairman of Program Committee,
Engineering for Rural Development 2026
Institute of Engineering and Energetics
Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies
e-mail: aivars.aboltins@lbtu.lv
phone: 00-371-29134846