FinEd/KASVA Newsletter 1/2015
This is a FinEd (former KASVA) Newsletter. Monthly newsletters are sent to all subscribers of the FinEd mailing list and published on the FinEd website.
FinEd call for applications for travel grants open on February 2-28, 2015
The Finnish Multidisciplinary Doctoral Training Network on Educational Sciences (FinEd, former KASVA) opens a call for applications for travel grants for the year 2015. The call is directed for all current members of FinEd, as well as the doctoral students of the doctoral programmes / other units who have expressed their preliminary interest in being a member of FinEd after year 2015.
The travel grants of FinEd are granted for international conferences, scientific seminars, summer schools of other research visits related to the doctoral studies held abroad during the year 2015. Depending on the number of applications, the grants are also given as partial. The priority with the grants is given to the current members of FinEd who work with their dissertation full-time (graduate school, doctoral programme or project financing, grant). If there aren’t enough applications like this, also applications from those who work with their dissertation part-time are taken into account. We aim at an equal share of grants between the universities.
An accepted conference abstract or another specified work contribution is required for the travel grant. See the call for applications and fill in the electronic application by February 28th, 2015. The decisions are announced by March 13th, 2015.
Welcome to the Annual Seminar of the FinEd on June 9-10, 2015 in Herrankukkaro, Rymättylä
The annual seminar of FinEd "Transformations of the Governance of Education in Europe" will be organized in the distinctive conference center Herrankukkaro in Rymättylä, Turku archipelago, on 9-10.6.2015. The first keynote lecturer will be researcher Xavier Pons (University of East Paris Créteil and “Observatoire Sociologique du Changement”, Sciences Po, Paris) with a title "School Evaluation Policies and Educating States" . The invited speakers of the second keynote lecture on "Policy elite interviews in education policy research" are university lecturer, PhD Nelli Piattoeva (University of Tampere) and Post-Doctoral Researcher, docent Jaakko Kauko (University of Helsinki). Read further information and the programme of the seminar and register by March 31st, 2015!
Upcoming conferences and seminars
6th Nordic Conference on Adult Education and Learning, University of Tampere 25.-28.3.2015. Register by 20.2.2015.
Media Education Conference - MEC 2015 (former NBE) , 15-17 June 2015 in Sallatunturi with the theme In the Light of the Midnight Sun. Deadline for abstract submissions 2 February 2015.
CHER 2015, 28th Annual Conference, Global Challenges, National Initiatives, and Institutional Responses – The Transformation of Higher Education, Lisbon, Portugal, 7-9 September 2015. Deadline for proposals 15th February 2015.
Sunny beginning of the year to all the readers of the Newsletter!
The next FinEd Newsletter will be published in February, 2015. If you have something that you wish to be communicated to the FinEd members, please inform the coordinator.