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ECREA’s Executive Board and the Local Organizing Committee of the 2020 ECC in Braga are closely monitoring the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic as we are concerned about the health and well-being of our members and conference attendees.

The conference dates (2-5 October, 2020) remain unchanged at the present time but we wish to announce changes to the deadline for the acceptance of invitations and the registration period to take account of this period of uncertainty and give more time to make decisions about attendance.

The new deadline for accepted proposals confirmation of attendance is June 15 2020. Registration will open on the same day and the early bird registration will be correspondingly extended.

To reiterate, our intention at present is to go ahead with the physical conference in October but we will review this on an ongoing basis as well as engaging in contingency planning. We are not contemplating a virtual conference as an alternative to the physical conference.

Please take care of yourself, your family and your loved ones. Further updates will follow in due course.

The 2020 ordinary General Assembly of ECREA will open on Monday 25 May (6:45 CEST) and will close on Friday 29 May (23:45 CEST) 2020. We invite all the members, who are eligible to vote, to participate and cast their votes online.

The Assembly deals with a number of important issues, such as Approval of ECREA Executive Board Report for 2019 and the Budget Plan for 2020.

WHO CAN VOTE

Please note that only individual members and institutional coordinators are entitled to vote. If you are a member through an institution, you do not have the right to vote but need to communicate to your institutional coordinator. If you do not know who your institutional coordinator is, please ask ECREA’s Administrator at info@ecrea.eu. In line with ECREA Statutes, each individual member has one vote and each coordinator of an institutional member holds five votes.

All members, who are eligible to vote will receive a separate email with voting credentials and a link to dedicated online area when the General Assembly opens on 25 May 2020.

ECREA is happy to announce a new promotional leaflet. The main goal is to invite new scholars and students to become ECREA members. It can be distributed at conferences, workshops, and different academic meetings. Feel free to spread it.

You can download the leaflet here: EcreaLeaflet_WEB.pdf

ECREA announced new cooperation with European Journal of Communication (EJC) and the European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS). The grant to attend ECC 2020 will be provided by EJC and the Prize for the Best Paper will be awarded by EJCS to ECREA young scholars in connection with ECC 2020 in Braga. Both journals will offer publication opportunities to the grant and prize holders! The deadline for EJC Grant Application has been updated to 3 July 2020.

The European Journal of Communication Young ECREAN Conference Grant

European Journal of Communication (EJC) and ECREA invite Ph.D. candidates who are members of ECREA to apply for the EJC-funded grant supporting the PhD candidate´s attendance at the 8th European Communication Conference in Braga, 2-5 October 2020. The applicant must have a paper proposal accepted for ECC 2020. The grant will be awarded to the applicant with the best accepted paper proposal. The amount of the grant is 1500 EUR. It covers conference fee, travel and accommodation costs and daily allowance and it is meant to support excellent Ph.D. candidates with limited opportunities to participate in international academic events. The grant will be judged by Christina Holtz Bacha, Malgorzata Winiarska Brodowska and Irena Reifová in collaboration with the editors of the EJC. The grant holder will be invited by the European Journal of Communication to develop the paper proposal into a full paper, which will be considered for publication in the European Journal of Communication (though with no guarantees of publication).

The Ph.D. candidates who want to apply for the EJC-funded grant are invited to submit the following documents:

• Short application letter explaining motivation to participate at ECC 2020 (150 words max.)
• Copy of paper proposal which was submitted and accepted for ECC 2020
• Curriculum vitae
• Letter of reference from supervisor or mentor

The deadline of the applications is 17 April, 2020 3 July 2020. All the requested documents must be submitted in PDF format to the email: info@ecrea.eu.

More information on the EJCS Prize are here.

The ECREA Young Scholars Network (YECREA) and ECREA as well as Local organisers of the conference are closely monitoring the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic and the implementation of preventive measures across Europe. The intention of the organisers at present is to go ahead with the physical conference in October but they will review this on an ongoing basis. They will continue to inform members and participants in case of any changes to plans.

The ECREA Young Scholars Network (YECREA) and ECREA invite applications for:

• 12 ECC 2020 grants for young scholars who are ECREA PhD members and are accepted to present at ECC;
•  At least 4 out of the 12 grants will go to soft-currency ECREA PhD members;
• Grant for regular ECREA PhD members: conference fee waiver + €250 travel/accommodation;
• Grant for soft-currency ECREA PhD members: conference fee waiver + €350 travel/accommodation;
• Deadline for application: 15th of May 2020.

The grants are intended for YECREA members (visit yecrea.eu/membership to learn how to become a YECREA member) in order to support access to the academic community of media and communication scholars by attending ECREA’s biannual conference from 2nd to 5th October 2020 in Braga, Portugal. The ECC 2020 grants include the waiver of the conference fee and partial reimbursement for costs of travel and accommodation.

Grant awards will be made based on several criteria, of which the most important is the applicants’ access to financial resources (e.g. from your home university, third-party funded projects or national funding institutions). The grants will be awarded only to young scholars whose presentation has been accepted to the programme of the conference. The applications will not be reviewed in terms of academic quality. However, applicants should preferably submit abstracts as first authors to the ECC conference programme.

The grants will be provided on the basis of reimbursement. The relevant claim form, digitalized invoices and receipts documenting actual costs must be submitted electronically to treasurer@ecrea.eu in addition to the submission of the original documents posted to the ECREA accountants: RSM Belgium, Lozenberg, 22 b3, B1932 Zaventem, Belgium. The applicant will be reimbursed up to the amount of the subsidy that was granted to the particular applicant.

Application & Timeline ECC Grants 2020

Applicants are expected to complete and submit the following Application Form: ecrea.eu/event-3749204 .

If selected for a grant, you will be asked to send a proof of acceptance to the conference (forwarding e-mail of acceptance of your presentation) as well as some evidence of your PhD or post-doctoral research status (e.g. prove of enrollment or link to your home university profile).

To apply, please complete the form no later than by 15th of May 2020. We will notify the applicants by 5th of June 2020. All grantees should confirm their attendance till 15th of June.

Timeline ECC Braga

Important dates are:

• 15th June: Participants need to confirm their participation at the ECC (deadline updated)
• 15th June: Registration opens
• Early bird registration deadline will be extended, please see the conference website for updates.

For further information, please contact the YECREA management team (Johan Farkas, Corinna Lauerer and Norbert Šinković): yecreanetwork@gmail.com .

ECREA is delighted to announce new cooperation with European Journal of Communication (EJC) and the European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS). The grant to attend ECC 2020 will be provided by EJC and the Prize for the Best Paper will be awarded by EJCS to ECREA young scholars in connection with ECC 2020 in Braga. Both journals will offer publication opportunities to the grant and prize holders!

The European Journal of Communication Young ECREAN Conference Grant

European Journal of Communication (EJC) and ECREA invite Ph.D. candidates who are members of ECREA to apply for the EJC-funded grant supporting the PhD candidate´s attendance at the 8th European Communication Conference in Braga, 2-5 October 2020. The applicant must have a paper proposal accepted for ECC 2020. The grant will be awarded to the applicant with the best accepted paper proposal. The amount of the grant is 1500 EUR. It covers conference fee, travel and accommodation costs and daily allowance and it is meant to support excellent Ph.D. candidates with limited opportunities to participate in international academic events. The grant will be judged by Christina Holtz Bacha, Malgorzata Winiarska Brodowska  and Irena Reifová in collaboration with the editors of the EJC. The grant holder will be invited by the European Journal of Communication to develop the paper proposal into a full paper, which will be considered for publication in the European Journal of Communication (though with no guarantees of publication).

The Ph.D. candidates who want to apply for the EJC-funded grant are invited to submit the following documents:

• Short application letter explaining motivation to participate at ECC 2020 (150 words max.)
• Copy of paper proposal which was submitted and accepted for ECC 2020
• Curriculum vitae
• Letter of reference from supervisor or mentor

The deadline of the applications is 17 April, 2020. All the requested documents must be submitted in PDF format to the email: info@ecrea.eu.

The European Journal of Cultural Studies Prize

The European Journal of Cultural Studies Prize is open to all Young ECREAns. This prize is for the best paper submitted by a YECREAn (member of YECREA Network) to the Braga ECC conference. The value of the prize is 1500 EUR and subsequent publication in the journal is envisaged.

The papers should follow the submission guidelines of the EJCS https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/ECS and be submitted to info@ecrea.eu by 31st July, 2020.

The prize will be judged by Goran Bolin, John Downey and Tanya Lokot in collaboration with the editors of the EJCS and will be awarded at the ECC in Braga in October 2020.

For more information on EJC Grant and EJCS Prize please contact ECREA at info@ecrea.eu.

ECREA will be awarding 13 grants to doctoral candidates participating in the 2020 ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School.

The grants are intended to encourage and support PhD candidates with limited economic support and with limited opportunities to participate in international academic events. The grant will cover the Summer School fee.

The deadline for application is 15 March 2020 (midnight CET).

WHO CAN APPLY FOR ECREA SUMMER SCHOOL GRANTS

Only ECREA members are eligible to receive Summer School grants. Candidates who are not members of ECREA must start membership application process by 15 March 2020. In the grant review process, only applications of candidates who have been accepted to participate in the Summer School will be reviewed.

HOW TO APPLY FOR ECREA SUMMER SCHOOL GRANTS

Applicants are expected to complete and submit the application form in which they will be asked about their financial and institutional background as well as their motivation for applying. In the application letter, students should especially specify the reasons for why they should be awarded a grant. The focus should be placed on the stability of the doctoral position (financial support, time given to complete the PhD., etc.), the academic support (in terms of supervision and opportunities for structured feedback), international academic exposure, and all other topics that might seem relevant to the applicant.

Download the application form in Word format.

Download the application form in PDF format.

Please fill-in the application form and upload it in the application form. If you encounter any problems you can email the form to office@ecrea.eu.

SELECTION PROCESS AND CRITERIA

The grants will be awarded based on a number of criteria. The primary aim is to make it possible for young scholars to participate in the summer school, who otherwise would not have the opportunity to participate in a similar event. Evaluations will especially assess applicants’ access to financial or institutional resources. Furthermore, it will be considered in how far an applicant has opportunities to received qualified feedback by high-profile researchers and peers in a way the summer school provides. In the grant review process, only applications of candidates who have been accepted to participate in the Summer School will be reviewed. The applications for ECREA Summer School grants will therefore not be reviewed in terms of academic quality.

The selection process will be carried out by Young Scholars Network – YECREA.

WHAT WILL ECREA SUMMER SCHOOL GRANT COVER

The Summer School grant will cover the Summer School participation fee (840€).

The participation fee covers:

• accommodation for the whole duration of the summer school, including breakfast
• welcome and farewell dinner
• lunch from Mondays to Fridays
• coffee in the breaks
• summer school materials
• WiFi at the summer school venue

The grant does not cover travel to/from the Summer School.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Deadline for applications: 15 March 2020
• Notification of acceptance to the Summer School: last week of March 2020
• Notification of grant selection process: 15 April 2020

CONTACT

You can send questions and inquiries concerning ECREA Summer School grants to office@ecrea.eu.

We are happy to invite you to participate in the ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2020 that will take place at the University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, from 12-21 July, 2020.

The summer school is open to the full variety of academic work in the broad field of communication and media studies. All PhD projects within the field of communication and media studies are welcomed.

The deadline for applications for the Summer School is March 9, 2020 (midnight CET).

APLLY HERE.

READ THE FULL CALL HERE.

We are pleased to announce the opening of a call for host institution for the 2021 and 2022 edition of the European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School.

ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School is established to support integration of PhD students within Europe and beyond into an academic culture in constructive and supportive manner, respectful towards disciplinary differences, inclusive across different aspects of media and communication fields and methodologies. They are intended to facilitate network-building that will last across academic career paths and to promote inclusive intellectual and organisational culture that ECREA stands for.

Interested institutions should contact ECREA's General Secretary Irena Reifová (generalsecretary@ecrea.eu) or International Director Pille Pille Pruulmann Vengerfeldt (info@ecrea.eu) for additional information regarding the Summer School programme and guidelines on budget.

Proposals must be submitted by 15 March 2020.

All documents linked to the call are available HERE.

We are delighted to announce that ECREA 2020 in Braga has received the highest number of submissions ever for the European Communication Conference.

In total, 2020 submissions have been received  - 1770 individual submissions and 50 panels (each with five participants) to Sections, Temporary working groups and Networks.

These numbers are proof of ECREA’s growing relevance for both European and International Communication scholars (Prague, in 2016, had attracted 1986 submissions and Lugano, in 2018, had reached 1913 submissions).

Speaking for the Local Organizing Committee, Helena Sousa said: “we are very pleased with the number of submissions and we are working very hard to make this an exceptional academic event in October”.

The proposals will now be reviewed and authors will be notified until March, 25th. The participation confirmation deadline is April, 15th.

For more information please follow:

Conference website:  http://www.ecrea2020braga.eu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ecrea2020braga/ 
Twitter: @ecrea2020braga