The Department of Economics of the University of Parma in collaboration with the CSEAR Italy, is delighted to announce the Sixth Italian Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR Italy 2016) which will be held in Parma (Italy) on 30th June and 1st July 2016.The Centre for Social and Environmental Research (CSEAR) is an international membership-based network that aims to mobilise accounting scholarship to enable a more sustainable society. CSEAR is a world-recognized community of scholars who engage with students, activists, practitioners, policy makers and other interested groups to generate and disseminate knowledge and build capacity on social and environmental accounting and accountability.The CSEAR Italy conferences, which have been organized bi-annually since 2006, provide an interdisciplinary forum for encouraging and facilitating research and debate in social and environmental accounting and accountability. In particular, the Sixth Italian CSEAR Conference gives opportunities to present and discuss research ideas, emerging projects and working/full papers with the purpose of encouraging constructive interaction, engagement and dialogue in a friendly and supportive environment.In addition, we are pleased to announce that this year the 1st CSEAR Italy Doctoral Colloquium will be organized. The colloquium will take place on 29th of June 2016 and will precede the 6th CSEAR Italian Conference (for more information see the page: Doctoral Colloquium) csear2016.unipr.it