Please read carefully the Call for Contributions
We welcome the submission of the following type of proposals:
- Paper abstracts (academic presentations or experience reports by practitioners or activists);
- Book presentation proposals on topics relevant to the five thematic fields of the conference.
- Session proposals containing the name of presenters, as well as the title and complete abstract of each presentation.
- Workshops or other practice-oriented participatory formats.
- Experience reports (practitioners and activists)
Note: Experience reports by practitioners or activists are a means for self-reflection, as well as to get feedback on their practices through dialogue and exchange with conference participants.The paper/presentation should point out the achievements of the organisation, as well as challenges and strategies developed to deal with shortcomings, constraints and lock-ins.
Abstracts will be published in a book of abstracts with ISBN. In your proposal, please indicate whether you would like to submit a full paper (manuscript) for publication in the conference proceedings. Full papers will be peer reviewed and published in Iscte-IUL’s online repository, where they will be indexed and publicly available.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All proposals should be submitted through the following link and platform: https://ssecommons.eventqualia.net/en/cloud/6ssec4847/account/login/
Please follow the next submission “guidelines”:
- VERY IMPORTANT >>> To submit a proposal registration on the platform is mandatory > one co-author can submit, and co-authors will receive a notification to confirm their co-authorship.
- Selecting the main theme (from 9 themes, see full Cfc) at the entrance to each section is mandatory. You can then add a secondary theme manually inside each section. If it’s not needed, please add ‘N.A.’ in the secondary theme.
- The platform is divided into two sections: ‘Abstracts’ (1) and ‘Sessions’ (2). The ‘Abstracts’ section contains papers, workshops, reports and book presentations. The ‘Panels’ section includes a description of the panel and a description of the sub-presentations.
- (1) All abstracts from papers, workshops, reports and book presentations are limited to 500 words (excluding references).
- Abstracts (maximum length 500 words) should refer to the theoretical and methodological approach, the main argument, and a summary of conclusions/implications for research, activism or policymaking.
- Book presentation proposals (maximum length 500 words) must refer to the theoretical and methodological approach, the main argument, and a brief summary of conclusions/implications for research, activism or policy-making.
- Workshops and other practice-oriented participatory formats should refer a brief (up to 100 words) statement summarising the rationale for workshop and an individual abstract (maximum 400 words each), referring to the theoretical and methodological approach, the main argument, a summary of conclusions/implications for research, activism or policy-making and main references.
- Report Experience should refer to a brief (up to 100 words) statement summarising the rationale for the report and an individual abstract (maximum 400 words each), referring to the theoretical and methodological approach, the main argument, a summary of conclusions/implications for research, activism or policy-making and main references.
- (2) Session proposals should include a description of the panel (300 words) + Individual abstracts for each presentation (maximum 500 words each, excluding references), with the title and author(s), referring to the theoretical and methodological approach, the main argument, a summary of conclusions/implications for research, activism or policy-making and main references.
- Each individual author (or first author in a co-authored submission) can submit a maximum of two proposals.
- Proposals can be submitted in English, French, Portuguese or Spanish.
- The conference presentation must be made in English, as budgetary constraints do not allow us to offer interpretation services on site.
- Once the results have been announced and your paper has been accepted for presentation, please follow the conference registration instructions on https://ssecommons.cei.iscte-iul.pt/registration/
- Conference registration takes place on the same platform used for submissions. The registration portal will open on 31 July for the Early Bird period. See key dates https://ssecommons.cei.iscte-iul.pt/important-dates/