[ecrea] Call for participants ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2011

Call for participants ECREA European Media and 
Communication Doctoral Summer School 2011

We are happy to invite PhD students to 
participate in the ECREA European Media and 
Communication Doctoral Summer School 2011 that 
will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 14 ? 27 August 2011.

THE FOCUS

The ECREA European Media and Communication 
Doctoral Summer School 2011 brings together 
members of the European research community to 
this summer school in order to debate 
contemporary issues in media, communication and cultural studies.

The main emphasis of this summer school is on 
providing structural and individuated PhD-support 
for young European scholars, through a variety of 
working forms, including feedback seminars, workshops, and lectures.

The summer school aims to provide a supportive 
international setting where doctoral students can 
present their ongoing work, receive feedback on 
their PhD-projects from international experts and 
meet students and academics from other countries, 
establishing valuable contacts for the future.

THE TOPIC

The summer school is open to the full variety of 
academic work in the broad field of communication 
and media studies. The overall theme for the 
programme - New democratic cultures in a 
globalised European mediasphere provides just one 
of the many topical focal points of the summer 
school. The theme will not be used as a criterion 
for participant selection. All PhD projects 
within the field of communication and media studies are welcomed.

HOW TO APPLY

There are two options to attend the Summer School:

1. For students whose universities are a member 
of the organizing consortium (see the list below) 
the Summer School will provide:

- Summer School materials (including 2 books),
- accommodation, breakfast, coffee and  lunches,
- travel refund*

Payment of a membership contribution of 450 Euros 
for a series of supplementary activities 
(research seminars, round table and social 
events) organised by the Slovene Communication Association is required.

* The full refund is valid for the (cheapest 
possible) travel costs to the summer school 
location (Ljubljana) taking into account the 
maximum eligible costs set by Erasmus IP (see the 
table of maximum costs on the summer school 
website). In order to get the refund after the 
end of the summer school, the students will have 
to send in their original boarding passes and 
tickets, travel agent invoices and receipts to 
the summer school coordinator no later than 
September 5 2011 (date of stamp). Otherwise no refund will be provided

2. For students whose universities are not a 
member of the organizing consortium but are 
either individual or institutional members of 
ECREA, the Summer School will provide:

- Summer School materials (including 2 books),
- accommodation, breakfast, coffee and lunches.

Payment of a membership contribution of 550 Euros 
for a series of supplementary activities 
(research seminars, round table and social 
events) organised by the Slovene Communication Association is required.

CREDITS

The summer school gives full recognition to the 
activities of participating students who are 
awarded 10 ECTS credits for their participation 
in the full programme (including the 
supplementary activities). Six of the best 
student presentations and all abstracts of 
student projects will be published in the Summer 
School Book. The total number of students will be 
limited to 45, up to 35 from consortium members and 10 students through ECREA.

GRANTS

There will be 2 grants provided to students who 
are unable to otherwise raise registration and 
travel fee. There is a separate application and 
selection procedure in order to apply for these 
grants. The application will be available through 
the summer school website after March 1, 2011.

DEADLINE

The deadline for applications for the summer school is April 15, 2011.
 A wide range of student papers is sought for, 
and it is not necessary to fit into the yearly 
theme of the doctoral summer school. The working 
language of the summer school will be English; 
therefore a sufficient understanding and ability 
to express oneself in this language is expected.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND QUESTIONS

For more information and registration, please 
visit the summer school website http://www.comsummerschool.org.
All questions concerning the application 
procedure and other information can be directed 
to the Programme Director of the Summer School

Ilija T. Tomanic ((ilija.tomanic /at/ fdv.uni-lj.si) or (ilija.tomanic /at/ gmail.com))


APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Stage One
When applying, each interested student is 
expected fill out a form on the Summer School 
website (http://www.comsummerschool.org). Prior 
registration on the website is necessary (the 
approval of the website account is not automatic 
and may take up to 3 days.) Uncompleted 
applications will not be eligible. Applications 
can only be submitted via the summer school website.
This application form will include:
1. a short CV according to the provided forms
2. a 400 word abstract of the PhD project
The deadline for submitting the application is 
April 15, 2011. Notification of acceptance will 
be sent during the first week of May 2011.

Stage Two
Students whose abstracts are accepted will be 
expected to provide the following documents and 
information in the second phase:
1. A 10-page (3000 words) paper on their PhD 
project as a whole. The 10 page paper should be a 
report of the student?s ongoing doctoral research 
and not a conventional conference paper or a 
report of findings. Rather, it is expected that 
the student will briefly present the focus of the 
research and then take up aspects of the research 
process: methodological, theoretical and 
practical issues on which he/she would like to 
receive feedback. (Deadline: June 15)
2. A set of questions (maximum 1 page) with 
questions or problems that students would like to 
be discussed during the workshops. This one page 
needs to be part of the same Word/PDF file that 
also contains the 10-page paper. (Deadline: June 15)
3. Based on the abstracts and titles of other 
student papers, everyone is expected to choose up 
to 3 papers they would be interested in being a 
respondent. This preference will be taken into 
consideration while setting up student working groups. (Deadline June 20)
4. By the start of the Summer School, each 
student has to prepare a 10-minute seminar 
presentation covering the main points of their 
work. Each student is also expected to actively 
participate in the discussions of their own and 
other people?s work. In order to ensure maximum 
benefits of the seminars, everyone will have to 
read other participants papers before the Summer School begins.

CONSORTIUM OF UNIVERSITIES

The Intensive Programme is supported by Socrates 
Erasmus IP project grant, the European 
Communication Research and Education Association 
(http://www.ecrea.eu), the Department of Media 
and Communication Studies, Faculty of Social 
Sciences, University of Ljubljana 
(http://www.fdv.uni-lj.si), a consortium of 22 partners universities:

?University of Bremen DE,
?Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) HU,
?University of Roskilde DK,
?University of Tampere FI,
?Lund University SE,
?University of Arts Berlin DE,
?Charles University CZ,
?University of Ankara TR,
?University of Tartu EE,
?Vrije Universiteit Brussel BE,
?University of Stirling UK,
?University of Erfurt DE,
?University of Bergen NO,
?Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) LT,
?Jönköping University SE,
?University of Sacred Heart Milano IT,
?University on Helsinki FI,
?University Stendhal, Grenoble 3 FR,
?London School of Economics & Political Science UK,
?University of Westminster UK,
?Autonomous University of Barcelona ES
?University of Ljubljana, SI
and the Finnish national research school.



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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
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