EUROCALL 2026 - Evidencing your contribution to our community.

 

This short clip shows our community welcoming new EUROCALL members to their first conference at Belfast this year. We value our members and enjoy meeting up face to face for fellowship and exchange of ideas. 

This year's annual conference was vibrant and well supported. The host location - Ulster University's Belfast campus - provided wonderful opportunities to explore the music and culture of the island of Ireland too. 

(left to right) Toni Patton (secretary) Ana Gimeno, Caoimhín Ó Dónaill, Kate Borthwick, Mirjam Hauck)

We trust that you enjoyed your conference but we want you to take a souvenir with you! We issue an open badge to every Presenter and Participant and these will come to you in the next few days. You should get an email from us through our Open Badge factory (check your spam folder) and that has details of how to pick up and display your badge. You can even print off a .pdf of your badge to use as evidence of your conference attendance. We have a playlist on our You Tube channel to help with an queries. Open Badge Passport has a useful mobile app you can download too. 

Here is an earlier post from this blog about how EUROCALL uses Open Badges:

All you need to know about using your Open Badge

Multilingual Tutorials are available on the Open Badge Factory You Tube channel so you can make the most of your badge by using it to connect with other badge holders or just to keep a record of your commitment to professional development. 

Keep the warm glow of conference with you all year round!

Calling all CALLers!

 

Screenshot of the EuroCALL 2023 website

At last we are able to prepare for the return of the face to face EuroCALL conference. How exciting! We are sure you can't wait to get together for the most wonderful in-person intercultural fellowship at the amazing University of Iceland. 

The call for papers has been launched, you can find it here on the conference website, along with all the details of the themes, organisers and venue. Please get the dates in your diary and join us in person this year. 

As ever we are starting the social activity immediately. The conference has an Instagram account  where you can start to explore the sights of this amazing setting and a Facebook page where you can meet each other. EuroCALL's usual social media accounts will also use the hashtag #eurocall2023 to aggregate and curate interactions as we go through the year. 

Conference presenters and participants will be issued with our EuroCALL digital badges and, coming soon - there will be further exciting news of EuroCALL must have items! 

Our exec team and conference organisers are working hard to ensure that this conference will be memorable for all, reviving past traditions and creating new ones together. 

We are calling all CALL-ers for our most inclusive conference yet. 

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Getting 2021 underway: EuroCALL AGM paves the way for this year's conference.

 

EuroCALL AGM in zoom January 22nd 2021

The invitation to attend our Annual General Meeting:

It was unusually joyful as formal meetings go, especially given we are still in the throes of a global pandemic! You can find all the documentation for the AGM on the EuroCALL website by logging in to the Member's Area.

 

Despite our regrets about missing our physical visit to Copenhagen, we reflected on the fellowship we had enjoyed at the Gathering in the summer where circumstances had led to many new experiences. Our first ever visualisation of our community on our Gathering map and our first ever You Tube channel. Our Treasurer delighted all with his media rich presentation which included a soundtrack and a reminder that EuroCALL has to be prepared whatever the weather:

And so, with this in mind we continue our preparations for the future. The Eurocall 2021 conference website is up and plans are quite advanced despite the many uncertainties. You can follow updates on twitter too. This year we will have a blended conference with some in person possibilities. See the website for details. 

As ever, there will be a rich, research-informed programme, many opportunities to network and learn from this wonderful community. Our Special Interest Groups will host workshops or symposia on the second day and these will be open to all comers online. The conference committee wish us to continue to build upon the wonderful fellowship we all enjoyed at the Gathering and we need your help to help ensure the future of this organisation through expanding our membership. 

Please spread the word, encourage friends and colleagues to join EuroCALL and we can all support each other in overcoming the challenge that is teaching and learning in a global pandemic. 

Mutual support in difficult times: a message from EuroCALL

A message from the EuroCALL executive:

Dear EUROCALL Community,
We hope this message finds you and yours well in these uncertain times.

What we are doing

The EUROCALL Executive and the Copenhagen Team have been working together on a Plan B for August. It is clear that we cannot hold our usual conference at Copenhagen in the current circumstances. Instead we intend to organise on online ‘gathering’ this year (around the same time as the Copenhagen conference would have taken place) and not the full conference. The gathering will consist of workshops and SIG symposia only. Details of this online event will be sent shortly. Regarding our current accepted submissions - our intention is to carry over this year’s successful submissions to next year. The exact details of the process will be announced once the Executive finalises details with the Copenhagen team.

What we hope you can do

At this difficult time, and in order to support the ongoing work of our EUROCALL family, we would encourage you to please renew your annual membership as normal. You can renew via the EUROCALL website. Given the circumstances, we have decided to offer the 65€ online membership to everyone. This reduced rate will be available to all until 31st August 2020. The fee for participating in the August ‘gathering’ (for those who are not already members) will be 65€ and will also entitle attendees to EUROCALL annual membership. Please visit our website to join. 

What we hope to do next year

After a pause of one year, it is hoped that our Danish colleagues will be in a position to host at EUROCALL2021. The team are still in discussions about this with their University. We will confirm what is happening regarding 2021 at the end of May. Our colleagues in Paris have confirmed that they will be making preparations to host EUROCALL2022.

We are deeply grateful to all our Members for your continued loyalty. Your support is helping us to sustain our association through a time of great uncertainty. Thank you for making this possible.
I look forward to updating you further at the end of May when I will also confirm the details of the ‘gathering’.

Until then: stay safe and be well!

Mirjam (on behalf of the EUROCALL executive committee)