EAIR 37th ANNUAL FORUM KREMS 2015

You may submit more than one proposal but only one (per main author) will be accepted. There are different types of proposals: single-slot papers, double-slot papers, and other proposals (roundtable/panel, workshop, special interest group). Please indicate the nature of your proposal when submitting online.

Posters are also welcome because they are typically well suited to give overviews of facts, figures and the conclusions drawn from research. They will be displayed to attract the Forum participants’ attention and a presentation is scheduled at the Forum to quickly communicate its ideas and relevance.

All Speakers at the EAIR Forum will be required to register for the Forum and to pay the registration fee. EAIR members will receive a reduction on the Forum registration fee.

Young Forum speakers 35 and under (main authors only)
For young professionals and academics (aged 35 and younger at the time of the Forum) who are working in higher education institutions and other organisations in the higher education fabric (ministries, quality assurance agencies, etc.) EAIR is offering a 50% reduction of the normal Forum registration fee, if the submitted proposal is accepted.

…and EAIR Outstanding Paper Award (for speakers aged 35 and younger)
All authors (including all their co-authors) that are aged 35 and younger are encouraged to submit their paper proposal for the EAIR Outstanding Paper Award. Please tick the box at the end of the proposal form, if you want to participate in this competition. Please take note of the criteria. CRITERIA

• Extended Submission deadline: Monday 2 March 2015.

• Posters: 1 May 2015.

• EAIR Outstanding Paper Award Final Full Paper: 20 July 2015.

• All other Final Full Papers: 31 July 2015.

In order to enable very diverse and in-depth discussions we invite you to propose a topic for a special interest group (SIG), to be held on the first Forum day Sunday 30th of August 2015 for a session of about two to three hours. SIGs are meant to be highly interactive exchanges on a salient and clearly demarcated topic. A submission for a SIG proposal should consist of a short description of about 1500 characters (approximately 150 words) that highlights the specific interest and importance of this topic. The EAIR Executive Committee will offer organisers one Forum fee waiver per accepted “Special Interest Group”. Please make any suggestions to the Forum Programme Committee by submitting the proposal through the submission process outlined above, checking the “SIG” track option.

If the proposal is accepted, you will be invited to write a detailed “full” paper (including the abstract and outline) of 30,000-50,000 characters (approximately 3,000-5,000 words). The paper should be written on the basis of the accepted proposal and according to formatting rules of EAIR. EAIR will publish all full papers on the Forum website which is only accessible to the Forum participants and EAIR members. The abstract of the accepted proposal will be published in the Forum Programme. The deadline for submission of these full articles to the EAIR Secretariat is 31st of July 2015.

Paper Presentation and Language
For paper presentations, you will normally be given a timeslot of 20 minutes to present the ideas set out in your paper plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion. You are also encouraged to propose other formats, including roundtable/panel discussions, workshops, special interest groups, poster presentations and best practice sessions. The Forum language is English.