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[ecrea] Call for participants ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2011
Tue Feb 15 16:56:24 GMT 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)
Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium
T: ++ 32 (0)2-629.18.56
F: ++ 32 (0)2-629.36.84
Office: 5B.401a
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