European Journal of Communication (EJC) and ECREA invite Ph.D. candidates who are members of ECREA and its YECREA to apply for the EJC-funded grant supporting the PhD candidate´s attendance at the 9th European Communication Conference in Aarhus, 19-22 October 2022.

The amount of the grant is 1500 EUR. It covers conference fee, travel and accommodation costs and daily allowance to support excellent Ph.D. candidates with limited opportunities to participate in international academic events. The applications will be judged by Peter Golding (one of EJC Editors) and ECREA representatives Christina Holtz-Bacha, Félix Ortega and Irena Reifová. The committee will evaluate the applications according to the following criteria: originality, methodological rigour, and significance to the field of media and communication studies.

The grant holder will be invited by the European Journal of Communication to develop the paper proposal into a full paper, which will be considered for publication in the European Journal of Communication (no guarantees of publication).

The Ph.D. candidates who want to apply for the EJC-funded grant must meet the following conditions:

• must be selected for the program of 9th ECC in Aarhus
• must be ECREA/YECREA member at the time of the conference
• must submit short CV
• must submit extended abstract of the accepted paper up to 1000 words (no bibliography)
• must submit letter from his/her supervisor (confirming that the applicant has no other or very limited opportunities to get funding from other sources)

The deadline of the applications is 3 June, 2022. All the requested documents must be submitted in PDF format to the email: info@ecrea.eu.