[ecrea] Deadline 15 April - ECREA Doctoral Summer School 2011

ECREA is pleased 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)

Application procedure

Stage One
When applying, each interested student is expected fill out a form on 
the Summer School website. 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, 
the Department of Media and Communication Studies, Faculty of Social 
Sciences, University of Ljubljana, 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.

>Download the Summer School flyer (pdf) here: 
http://fajle.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/ecrea-suso_call-for-students-2011.pdf 

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