[ecrea] Call for participants ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2012

Call for participants ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral 
Summer School 2012

We are happy to invite you to participate in the ECREA European Media 
and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2012 that will take place in 
Ljubljana, Slovenia from 12 - 25 August 2012.

THE FOCUS
The ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2012 
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 topic of this year's summer school is Media in/and society - present 
trends and developments. The summer school is open to the full variety 
of academic work from the field of communication and media studies. The 
overall theme for the programme provides just one of the many topical 
focal points of the summer school and will not be used as a main 
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:

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 (see summer school website for details)
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.
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.

The total number of students will be limited to 45, up to 35 from 
consortium members and 10 students through ECREA.

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.

GRANTS
There will be 1 grant provided to students who are unable to otherwise 
raise the membership contribution. 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 April 25, 2012.

DEADLINES
The deadline for applications for the summer school is April 5, 2012.
Applicants from consortium universities and affiliated partners of the 
summer school should coordinate their application with institutional 
coordinators (see the list at the summer school website).
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.

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 400 word abstract of the PhD project
2. a short CV according to the provided forms
The deadline for submitting the application is April 5, 2012. 
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by April 25.

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: May 25)
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: May 25)
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 1)
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.

List of Consortium member universities and affiliated partners
The summer school is supported by Socrates Erasmus Lifelong Learning 
Programme project grant and is organised by a consortium of 22 partners 
universities:
o University of Ljubljana, SI
o University of Bremen DE,
o Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) HU,
o University of Roskilde DK,
o University of Tampere FI,
o Lund University SE,
o Loughborough University GB,
o Charles University CZ,
o University of Ankara TR,
o University of Tartu EE,
o Vrije Universiteit Brussel BE,
o University of Stirling UK,
o University of Erfurt DE,
o University of Bergen NO,
o Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) LT,
o Jönköping University SE,
o University of Sacred Heart Milano IT,
o University on Helsinki FI,
o University Stendhal, Grenoble 3 FR,
o London School of Economics & Political Science UK,
o University of Westminster UK,
o Autonomous University of Barcelona ES.

Affiliated partners of the summer school are:
o European Communication Research and Education Association,
o Finnish national research school,
o COST Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies,
o Slovene Communication Association.
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