Join the stage at the EuroFM Conference 2025: Call for Presentations now open!

Call for Presentations: EuroFM Conference 2025

The countdown has begun! On 1 and 2 December 2025, we’re heading north for the annual EuroFM Conference, this year hosted in beautiful Winter Wonderland Trondheim, Norway, in partnership with NTNU University.

Tickets went on sale last week, and excitement is already building. Now, it’s your chance to help shape the program by stepping on stage!

We are now officially opening our Call for Presentations!

Whether you’re eager to deliver a keynote, spark debate in a panel, or host an interactive workshop, we want to hear from you. Presenters will receive free access to the day of their participation. What we’re looking for: 

🎤 Speaker
Deliver a 30 minute presentation that sparks new ideas and invites global perspectives.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Panel Discussion
Join a themed panel with 3–4 other experts. Each speaker gets 3 minutes to pitch their view, followed by a moderated round-table style debate. (45 minutes)

🛠️ Workshop Leader
Host a 45 minute workshop that dives deeper into a specific sub-theme or angle of the day’s topic.

How to submit your proposal
Send an email to the chair of our Program Committee Pat Gaughan (pat@eurofm.org) with:

🔹The day and topic you’re interested in
🔹The type of session you propose
🔹Any relevant details that help us understand your idea and motivation

Submit your proposal

Submission Deadline: May 31, 2025

Submit your abstract to: pat@eurofm.org

EuroFM Student ‘Urban FM’ Challenge winners heading to Minneapolis this September

The first student challenge of the year was hosted as part of the World Workplace Europe conference organized by Pleun van Deurssen and Pieter le Roux, Board members Education for, and on behalf of, EuroFM. The topic for this year was:

”URBAN FM FROM A PLACEMAKING PERSPECTIVE”

And then particularly on what role the facility manager has in co-creating resilient, inclusive, and livable cities. We had 12 Students, from 7 universities, with 7 nationalities, who came together for three days to work on this project. And did so very very well!vWe kickstarted the challenge with an introduction to all, and an instruction to the topic back in February and met for the first time in person during the welcome’s reception. Here, the full assignment was shared and the student challenge officially commenced! Three groups, coached and judged by Ir. Jacob Gerben (Jaap) Wijnja CFM, Erik Jaspers and Niels Peters took on the challenge and worked hard to be able to win tickets to IFMA World Workplace in Minneapolis. They visited the neighborhood, they attended speaker sessions, they spoke to industry professionals, and had a lot of time (and fun) together.

On Thursday they presented their findings, and we were all impressed by how much they had done in so little time. The ideas included student accommodation and use the ground floor to connect young and old and build connections throughout, a community manager who is in charge of bridging the gap between “new” neighbors for the 5000+ houses currently being developed, and a community garden with event space to host different activities for everyone near.

And although they are all winners in my eyes (look what you gained… a professional network, meeting each other, learning new things) eventually the group of Madhu Anbarasan, Felix Wadzah, Eline Rotgans, Isa Crijns, and Adriana Etemi took the win. The judges agreed that their proposal was complete, it was fun, and fitted the assignment. CONGRATULATIONS!! America, here they come! Want to see their presentation? Download it here!

This year, for the first time ever, we even had a sponsor to contribute to the travel expenses. A huge thank you to JLL and OfficeSpace Software for sponsoring this challenge and make it possible for our students to make the journey and continue their networking game!

Well done to all other participants too (Zonne Vroom, Amarens Keizer, Eliška Lukejová, Esmee van den Heuvel, Floor Butzelaar, Carolyne Atieno Otieno, Niels Adams). You all did so well, and you can be immense proud of yourself. We for sure are!

Watch the video of the winning team: