ECREA – European Communication Research and Education Association
European Communication Research and Education Association is a scholarly association centred on the study of "media, communications and informatics research, including relevant approaches of human and social sciences". It strives to promote quality of communication research and teaching in higher education across Europe. It counts more than 2700 individuals as members. At present, ECREA's legal seat is located in Brussels, Belgium. ECREA is similar in nature with other learned societies like the International Communication Association and the International Association for Media and Communication Research.
Governance
The General Assembly is the governing body of ECREA that exercises the ultimate authority over the implementation of the association's decisions. The General Assembly is composed of all active institutional and individual members. With simple majority every four years the General Assembly elects the Executive Board which, in turn, appoints from its members the President, the Vice President, the General-Secretary, the Treasurer and the Secretary of the Bureau. Together they form the Bureau, which decides on day-to-day management and organisational matters and acts on behalf of the associations in legal cases. In addition, the Forum of Section, Temporary Working Groups and Networks, and the Advisory Board that can be consulted by the Executive Board and the Bureau.
Conferences and Doctoral Summer School
Every other year, ECREA organizes and sponsors a large-scale international conference, dubbed the . Each conference features keynote speeches, alongside parallel sessions organised by the Sections as well as panel discussions revolving around pre-set topics. 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. 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. The Doctoral Summer School has a long history, even before ECREA became involved, and was organised in the following locations:
ECREA manages two book series. The "ECREA Book Series" was published by Intellect until 2012. A new book series, the "Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education" was started in 2013. Since July 2013, six edited collections have been published in this series, and three more titles will be published later in 2015. Current series editors are Claudia Alvares, Ilija Tomanić Trivundža and Fausto Colombo. All books published in both series feature original work by ECREA members. The intellectual work of the Doctoral Summer School is traditionally published in The Researching and Teaching Communication Series. An edited volume, usually edited by senior scholars, includes what is deemed the best student work alongside the bulk of lectures given by established scholars. These edited volumes are accessible free of charge at .
Publications
The following books have so far been published: edited by Jan Servaes edited by Jan Servaes and Nico Carpentier edited by Bart Cammaerts and Nico Carpentier edited by Karol Jakubowicz and Miklós Sükösd , edited by Andrea Czepek, Melanie Hellwig, and Eva Nowak , edited by Tonny Krijnen, Claudia Alvares and Sofie Van Bauwel , edited by Natascha Just and Manuel Puppis , edited by Divina Frau-Meigs, Jérémie Nicey, Patricio Tupper, Michael Palmer and Julia Pohle , edited by Helena Bilandzic and Geoffroy Patriarche and Paul Traudt , edited by Louise Phillips, Anabela Carvalho and Julie Doyle. , edited by Josef Seethaler, Matthias Karmasin, Gabriele Melischek and Romy Wöhlert , edited by Wolfgang Schulz, Kristina Irion and Peggy Valcke , edited by Geoffroy Patriarche, Helena Bilandzic, Jakob Linaa Jensen and Jelena Jurišić , edited by Nico Carpentier, Kim Christian Schrøder and Lawrie Hallett , edited by Thorsten Quandt and Sonja Kröger , edited by Frauke Zeller, Cristina Ponte, Brian O'Neill , edited by Georgios Terzis , edited by Tiziano Bonini and Belén Monclús
