The conference of the Croatian and Slovenian Association of Agricultural Economists HAED-DAES 2025, The Role of Agricultural Economic and Sustainable Transformation of Agri-Food Systems in Central and South-East Europe, was held at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek (UNIOS) in Croatia on 18 and 19 September 2025: https://haeddaes.fazos.hr/program/ . At the conference, Prof. Dr. Štefan Bojnec from UP FM presented a joint paper with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Patricia Blatnik entitled Inclusiveness and Gender Equality: The Case of an Academic Institution, chaired the section Agricultural Trade, Policies and Modelling and participated in the panel In Memoriam of Life and Work of Prof. Dr. sc. Jernej Turk, University of Maribor.