Conferences and Doctoral Summer School
Every other year, ECREA organizes and sponsors a large-scale international conference, dubbed the European Communication Conference ECC. Each conference features keynote speeches, alongside parallel sessions organised by the Sections as well as panel discussions revolving around pre-set topics. [2] [3]
The venue of the conference is usually a big European city. These are the conference locations and dates;
In the uneven years, ECREA's Sections, Temporary Working Groups, and Networks each organize a smaller event. [8]
Every year, a Doctoral Summer School is organised, during which leading experts and junior scholars discuss the PhD. projects of the participating junior scholars. These so-called student feedback workshops are combined with lectures, presentations, workshops, and seminars. The ECREA Doctoral Summer School represents a supportive environment for up-and-coming European researchers which, it is thought, boosts their early career development. [9] The Doctoral Summer School has a long history, even before ECREA became involved, and was organised in the following locations: [10]
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