On 20th and 22nd June 2023, an annual conference of the Society For the Advancement of Socio-Economics, entitled ‘Socio-Economics in a Transitioning World: Breaking Lines and Alternative Paradigms for a New World Order’, took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. During the conference, the Research Center was represented by members of the ITEM consortium: Aleksandra Lis-Plesińska, Marek Jaskólski and Rafał Szymanowski, who presented a paper, titled An emerging socio-technical imaginary of electric mobility transition in Poland? Expectations, embeddings, disappointments and reconfigurations.