Call for sessions

Thank you for your interest in hosting a session during the ESP Europe conference in Heraklion, Greece from 10-14 October 2022. 

On this page you can submit your session proposal. The deadline for submissions is 1 May 2022.

One of the aims of this conference is engaging with society and raising societal awareness on ecosystem services. Therefore within this conference we welcome alternative session formats such as discussion forums, world cafes, sessions in which media outputs are presented. Feel free to think out of the box and be creative by proposing alternative session formats.

Submit a session proposal

 

We provide guidance on the options for alternative session formats and the way for shaping your proposal.

• World Café: sessions in format that allows for open discussion around a specific topic. These are usually guided by a list of core questions / topics to be discussed and are facilitated by the session hosts and invite participants to join in order to contribute to a shared discussion.
• Documentaries and other media: Hosts and participants might want to host sessions in which alternative means of science communication are presented to discuss science communication, using and sharing experiences among participants.
• Solution rooms: These sessions are designed to give space to participants to discuss challenges they are facing around a specific topic.
• Speed talk/lightning sessions: Such sessions are designed in a way that participants have a short time (around 5 minutes) to talk about their research topics. Ideally these should be combined with a follow-up discussion afterwards.
• Scientific debates: Such sessions allow for people to debate over a specific question or topic and participants are then polled to measure their opinion on the topic, followed up by group discussions.
• Storytelling sessions: Presenters are called to present their research topics in a format of a story that helps them illustrate their work. They are more suitable for cases in which experiences of individuals, teams, community groups are told like a traditional story. The idea of the “stories” is that they have characters, themes, and an ending point of the story.
• Scientific games: This could be suitable for participants and sessions that might want to ask participants to test software or applications they have been developing. They usually have some time for introduction to the rules of the game, time for playing and a feedback session towards the end.

The deadline for session submission is 1 May 2022.

The Scientific Program Committee will review your session proposal. If your session is reviewed positively, we will send you session host guidelines soon after.

Submit a session proposal