Call for Special Session Proposals

The call will start on 7 October.
Deadline: 17 December 2024

The ERSA2025 Congress will feature keynote lectures, roundtables and series of special sessions.
The Local Organising Committee team invites and welcomes proposals for Special Sessions and Special sessions based on research projects.
Special Sessions must be related to the congress theme or especially hot topics within the congress scope. We ask you to take note of the procedure and guidelines regarding Special Sessions at ERSA2025.

A new type of session > "Special Sessions based on Research Projects"

We would like to introduce a new type of Special Session related to research projects. Research project is a flourishing area with the involvement of the majority of ERSA members. This would allow research teams to disseminate the findings that emerge from a research project and could stimulate interaction with the broader research and policy making community. These sessions will be proposed by the leaders of research projects. However, these sessions could/will be open to submissions/contributions from researchers outside the specific research team. These sessions will be named accordingly to provide a clear image of their content and purpose.

If your proposal is based on a research project, please indicate it while you are submitting your proposal through the google form (or by the special session form if you submit by email).

Procedure and Guidelines

What do we offer?
Special Sessions are a label of quality in the ERSA congress and we accommodate for this in several ways:

We aim to allow 20-25 minutes for each presentation slot in a Special Session
Each presentation in a Special Session will be assigned a discussant

What do we ask?

Each Special Session has a minimum of 4 registered presenters
Presenters can apply for a special session on the basis of a (draft) Paper or an extended abstract
Accepted Presentations are based on a (draft) paper that has been uploaded on the ERSA2025 submission portal.

If a special session does not meet the conditions, the presentations will be included in an ordinary session or a refereed session.

How to submit a proposal?

Note: in addition to contact information of the primary convenor, names of any co-convenors, the title, and description of the Special Session, we also ask you to list four interested presenters in your submission form.

Two Ways to submit your Special Session Proposal(s)

1. Via Google Form (preferably)

First, download this word template and complete with a brief description of your special session.
Then submit your proposal via the following Online Special Session Proposal Google Form
Should you want to submit two proposals, please start again the above procedure.
Accepted proposals will be posted on the congress website, before the start of the call for abstracts/papers.

2. Via email

Download and complete this Special Session Proposal Form
Please send the completed form by email to congress@ersa.org.
Accepted proposals will be posted on the congress website, before the start of the call for abstracts/papers.

We look forward to receiving your proposals for Special Sessions.

Should you have any questions, please contact the congress secretariat at congress@ersa.org

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