[ecrea] Reminder ECREA Summer School - deadline 15/3

Call for participants:
ECREA European Media and
Communication Doctoral Summer School 2013

Application deadline: March 15, 2013

We are happy to invite you to participate in the ECREA European Media 
and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2013 that will take place 
in Bremen, Germany from August 11-24, 2013.

THE FOCUS
The ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2013 
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 Dynamics of 
Mediatization: Everyday Media Agency in Europe. 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.

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 at http://www.comsummerschool.org 
<http://www.comsummerschool.org/>) the Summer School will provide:
•        Summer School materials (including 2 books),
•        accommodation, breakfast and coffee during the breaks,
•        travel refund (see summer school website for details)
Payment of a registration fee of 450 Euros is required.

For students whose universities are not a member of the 
organizing consortium, the Summer School will provide:
•        Summer School materials (including 2 books),
•        accommodation, breakfast and coffee in the breaks
•        travel refund (see summer school website for details)
Payment of a registration fee of 550 Euros is required.

The total number of students will be limited to 44, half of them 
from consortium members.

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 registration 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 April 11, 2013.

DEADLINES
The deadline for applications for the summer school is March 15, 2013.
Applicants from consortium universities and affiliated partners of the 
summer school must coordinate their application with institutional 
coordinators (see the list at http://www.comsummerschool.org 
<http://www.comsummerschool.org/>).
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 
<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 March 15, 2013. 
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by April 11.

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 pa-per 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: methodology, theory 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. (Deadline: June 15)
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 maxi-mum 
benefits of the seminars, everyone will have to read all 
other participants' papers before the Summer School begins.

CONSORTIUM MEMBER UNIVERSITIES AND AFFILIATED PARTNERS

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

Affiliated partners of the summer school are:
• BIGSSS - Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences
• COST Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies
• European Communication Research and Education Association
• Finnish national research school
• Otto Brenner Foundation
• Research Network “Communicative Figurations” (Universities of 
Bremen and Hamburg)

The European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School is funded by 
the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and Communicative 
Figurations, ZeMKI, University of Bremen.

Summer School Website: http://www.comsummerschool.org


NOTE: Grants for Central and Eastern European Students

Funding Support for the European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer 
School by the Otto-Brenner-Foundation

With help from the Otto-Brenner-Stiftung (OBS), participants from 
Central and Eastern Europe can apply for exclusive OBS grants that cover 
the summer school fee. Applications are possible with immediate effect 
through the summer school website www.comsummerschool.org 
<http://www.comsummerschool.org/>.

Further information:

Dr. Leif Kramp
University of Bremen
ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research
Phone: +49-421-218-67652
E-mail: (kramp /at/ uni-bremen.de) <mailto:(kramp /at/ uni-bremen.de)>

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