The proposed full title of the symposium is 2026 ISRM International Symposium – EUROCK2026 “Risk Management in Rock Engineering”. The theme is considered to be of high interest to the ISRM members and wider, as it covers the framework and principles in rock engineering that are necessary to achieve high quality rock engineering structures. Provisional Symposium themes are the following: (but not limited to)

• Risk assessment methods
• Rock properties, testing methods and site characterization (incl. planetary rock mechanics)
• Design methods and analysis (incl. EC 7)
• Rock dynamics, crustal stress and earth/marsquakes
• Rock mechanics related to environmental and mining engineering
• Implications of climate change on rocks and rock engineering projects
• Geotechnical aspects of soft rocks and hard soils
• Rock mechanics for cultural heritage
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering.
• Case histories
• Rock Mechanics education and training