[ecrea] Call for Participants: ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2014

Call for participants

ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2014

We are happy to invite you to participate in the ECREA European Media 
and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2014 that will take place in 
Bremen, Germany from August 3-16, 2014.

THE FOCUS

The ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2014 
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: Journalism, Representation and the Public Sphere. 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 below) 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 560 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 660 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 grants 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 deadline for 
a grant application is May 25, 2014. Application is possible through the 
summer school website.

DEADLINES

The deadline for applications for the summer school is March 31, 2014.

Applicants from consortium universities and affiliated partners of the 
summer school must 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. 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 31, 2014. 
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 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: 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 maximum 
benefits of the seminars, everyone will have to read all other 
participants' papers before the Summer School begins.


List of 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:

• European Communication Research and Education Association
• Finnish national research school
• Research Network “Communicative Figurations” (Universities of Bremen 
and Hamburg)
• International League of Higher Education in Media and Communication 
(MLeague)

The European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2014 is 
funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and Communicative 
Figurations, ZeMKI, University of Bremen.

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