The Congress will bring together humanities and social sciences (HSS) researchers, scientists, academicians, experts, engineers, developers, administrators and other HSS research-related professionals and practitioners from all over the world. The aims are to promote multidisciplinary dialogue and mutual cross-fertilisation of ideas and methods; to offer a place for participants to present, discuss, and showcase innovative recent and ongoing HSS research works and their applications or development; update on- and explore new ways and directions; and take advantage of opportunities for contacts, interaction, and international collaboration and networking.

All areas of Humanities and Social Sciences research are invited: anthropology and ethnology; applied mathematics, statistics and sciences for HSS research; archaeology; area studies; arts; business administration; classics; communication studies; cultural studies; demography; development studies; economics; environmental studies; epistemology; gender studies; geography; history; history and philosophy of science; history of art; information science; international relations; languages and cultures; law; linguistics and language sciences; literature; musicology; philosophy; policy, epistemology and methodology of multi-, inter-, trans- and cross-disciplinary HSS research; political science; psychology and cognitive science; religion; research policies, administration and strategies; and sociology.

The languages of the Congress are English and French.