[AISWorld] Call for Workshops - ECIS 2015 in Muenster

[Remko Helms]

~~~ Call for Workshops - ECIS 2015 in Muenster ~~~

Important deadlines:
- Any time until September 19th inform workshop chairs about your 
"intention to submit"
- Until October 10th full workshop proposals have to be handed in

The European Conferences of Information Systems (ECIS) increasingly 
attract co-located workshops on topics that relate to Information 
Systems. Continuing this trend, the 23rd ECIS in Münster in May 2015 
aims to feature a number of co-located workshops. We invite the IS 
community to propose Pre-ECIS workshops to be held prior to the ECIS 
conference. The main event will be held from Tuesday 26th (Welcome 
Reception) until Friday 29th of May 2015. Workshops can be scheduled on 
the 26th of May 2015. The duration of a workshop could be one day or 
half a day. The number of workshops may be limited because of space 
limitations. You are invited to submit an "intention to submit" workshop 
proposal any time until September 19th 2014 to the Workshop Chairs.

This should be an informal email, describing briefly the theme of the 
workshop. The idea is to try and give early feedback to proposers about 
similar workshop proposals and enable them to consider merger ahead of 
time. Please do not hesitate to ask questions or raise issues.

You are then invited to submit a proposal (up to 2,000 words long) for 
evaluation by the *10th of October 2014*.

Please be mindful of specifying in your proposal:
- Title of the workshop
- Main contact
- Workshop organizers (incl. contact details)
- Theme of the workshop
- Format of the workshop (incl. duration)
- Justification for being ECIS pre-conference workshop (suitability to 
ECIS audience)
- Names of the program committee (initial list)
- Plan for proceedings and publications / journal special issue
- Target audience and expected attendance (historical data may help here)
- Planned acceptance rate (if applicable)
- Schedule for the workshop (deadlines etc.)
- Special equipment needed (assume projector and screen + flipcharts 
will be available)
- Prior experience of the proposers in workshops organization

The decision about acceptance/rejection of workshop proposals will be 
made by the Workshops Chairs in consultation with the Conference and 
Program Chairs. Evaluation criteria include overall quality and the fit 
with respect to the expected ECIS 2015 program as well as venue 
capacity. Note that proposals are especially encouraged on emerging 
topics and should not already be covered by the main conference. Also 
tutorials on teaching, research (methods and tools) and academic careers 
are welcomed. The organizing committee will help in organizing for the 
rooms and technology and will provide catering at a fixed cost per 
participant.

The organizers of accepted workshops will be responsible for their own 
reviewing process, publicity (e.g., website and call for papers), and 
proceedings production. They will be required to closely cooperate with 
the Workshops Chairs and the ECIS 2015 local organizers to finalize all 
organizational details. Workshop attendees must pay the ECIS 2015 
workshop registration fee. If workshop attendees would also like to 
attend the main conference, they as well have to pay the conference 
registration fee. Workshop registrations and payments will be done via 
the conference registration system and thus the payments to the 
facilities will be taken care of by the local ECIS organizers. In 
particular, local organizers may require that all workshops adhere to 
specific requirements regarding the general timetable, registration and 
catering.

Workshop organizers must inform the Workshop Chairs of the numbers of 
submissions and acceptances as these numbers become available. Workshops 
may be cancelled for extremely low submissions or registrations at the 
early registration deadline. Please note that the duration of the 
workshop might be adjusted based on the number of submissions received. 
Only accepted workshops are official ECIS 2015 workshops and enjoy 
support for the organizing committee. Please send your intention to 
submit a proposal for a Pre-ECIS workshop by the 19th of September 2014.

Further deadlines:
- Any time until September 19th, workshop proposers may send an 
"intention to submit" message to the workshop chairs.
- Until September 26th, the Workshop Chairs will administrate the 
intentions handed in up to this point and, if necessary, suggest mergers.
- Until October 10th, the full proposals have to be handed in.
- November 7th, notification of acceptance of proposals and start of 
detailed discussions of workshop requirements and possibilities.
- November 21st, final decisions (considering space at the venue). 
Workshop leaders can start sending out their CFP.

Workshop Chairs:
- Katerina Pramatari (Athens University of Economics and Business - 
AUEB, Greece)
- Remko Helms (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)

Please submit your intention to submit as well as your proposal to 
wschairs at ecis2015.eu, which will reach both of them.

We look forward to receiving your proposals!

Katerina & Remko
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