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Austerity, Communication and the Media

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCEBucharest, 24th - 25th May 2013

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Useful information

Registration fee

Oral presentations

Full papers

Accommodation

Transport

Conference venue

Other


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UNDERSTANDING TRANSITION Austerity, communication, and the mediaINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Bucharest, 24th - 25th May 2013

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Registration for the conference

The conference fee is 50 EUR per person and includes conference materials, coffee breaks, a buffet

lunch and a dinner event. This is a non for profit event. The program of the conference will include only

the participants that paid the conference fee.

Please use the following account to pay the conference fee, until May 1st, 2013,stating For the 2013

conference:

Asociatia Formatorilor in Jurnalism si Comunicare

(The Romanian Association of Trainers in Journalism and Communication)

Alpha Bank, Kogalniceanu Branch, Bucharest

RO83BUCU253102802511EU01

SWIFT BUCUROBU

Unfortunately, we can not provide any financial support covering the travel or the accommodation

expenses. Information on different accommodation alternatives (including accommodation in the Hotel

of the University of Bucharest) are below.


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Oral presentation

For each oral presentation, a time slot of 20 minutes will be reserved 15 minutes for the actual

intervention and 5 minutes for discussions. All conference rooms will be equipped with a computer and

a projector, for power point presentations.

Full papers

The dead-line for the full paper is Wednesday, 15 of May. A selection of the papers will be published in

the Romanian Journal of Journalism and Communication, a peer-review journal indexed, full text, in the

ProQuest and EBSCO databases.

Style of manuscripts

The Romanian Journal of Journalism and Communication - RJJC accepts papers in English, French

and German, with abstracts and keywords in a second language (English, French, German or Spanish).

All articles should have two abstracts (one in English and one in a second language), the title and the

keywords in English and in a second language.

The articles should be typewritten with Times New Roman, 12, at 1,5 spaces. Please keep the papers

under 20-25 pages (notes and bibliography included). Reduce the number of notes as much as

possible; use endnotes (never footnotes!). Citing and referencing should be done in APA style, one of

the internationally recognized academic styles (http://www.apastyle.org/). The illustrations and the

tables should be attached in a JPG, TIF or BMP format, scale 100%, minimum resolution 150dpi or

included in the paper.

Structure of manuscripts

For articles and studies, we favor the IMRAD formula, so please try to follow closely this format:

Title/ Author and institution, e-mail and postal address

Abstract


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Keywords

Introduction/ Background of the paper, Purpose of the paper

Methods/ How is the study done? What corpus of data?

Results

And

Discussions/ What is new? What is important and for whom? Is there a contradiction to what others did?

Why?

Conclusion/ What was done in this article, as compared to other papers? What rest to be done in futureresearch?

Bibliography

Supporting Materials (illustrations, tables specifying where they should be put in the text)

Please sign the articles, indicating you position, your institution, your postal address and an e-mail.

Copyrights

All authors that wish to use copyrighted materials in their articles are responsible to obtain the rights to

use these materials from the party concerned, prior to publication in RJJC. All authors published by

RJJC are kindly asked to agree to offer RJJC and RJJC distributors (for example, academic databases)

the right to distribute their manuscripts to end users with whom there is a contract in this regard.


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Accommodation

There are several hotels in the area, like these ones, several minutes away on foot:

Nr. Hotels Adress/ street Website

1. Sarroglia 4* Vasile Lascar str., 59 http://sarrogliahotel.com/

2 Marshal 3* Str. Dr. Emanoil

Bacaloglu, nr. 2, sector 2

http://www.hotelmarshal.ro/

3 Duke 3* B-dul Dacia, Nr. 33 (Piaa

Roman), Sector 1

http://www.hotelduke.ro/

4. Unique 4* Piata Romana, CadereaBastiliei St.,Nr 35

http://www.hotelunique.ro/

5. Howard Johnson

Grand Plaza 5*

5-7 Calea Dorobantilor http://www.hojoplaza.ro

6. Tempo 3* Armand Calinescu No.

19

http://www.tempohotel.com/

For reservations at conferences rates, please contact

Andreea Sandu

_________________

CLICK TRAVEL

Calea Mosilor 294, bl 42, sc 2, ap 42, sector 2, Bucuresti

Tel: 004 0754.872.835 ( 0754 TRAVEL )

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.clicktravel.ro

YM: click_travel

The University of Bucharests Guest House

Alternatively, the University of Bucharest can offer accomodation in the Academica Guest

House, at Bdul Mihail Kogalniceanu 36-46, at a rate of 25 EUR, one single room per night, with no

breakfast (or 100 RON, a single, and 80 RON, a place in a double room). The Academica Guest House

can be reached by metro, from the conference venue.


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Access from the airport Henry Coanda

All commercial flights land now on the Henry Coanda Airport, also known as Otopeni.

Please check the airport website for transfer information, here -

http://bucharestairports.ro/otp/index.php?&cat=1&article=16. The public transportation station for the

Express bus, metro, trolley and ordinary busses is Romana.

Access from the Northern Train Station

The Northern Train Station (Gara de Nord) is the main train station in Bucharest, where

international trains arrive. From Gara de Nord one can reach the city center by metro or by bus stop:

Romana.

Public transportation

Trolley bus map: http://www.ratb.ro/maps1/Troleibuze.pdf

Bus map: http://www.ratb.ro/maps1/Autobuze.pdf

Night bus map: http://www.ratb.ro/maps1/Trasee_noapte.pdf

Metro (tube) map: www.metrorex.ro

Tariffs: bus in Bucharest 1.3 RON, Metro 2 RON.

Taxi

Several taxi companies function in Bucharest. The tariff should be written on the car.

Cobalcescu: 021 9451; Cristaxi: 021 9461; Meridian: 021 9444, 021 9888; Speed Taxi: 021

9477, 021 9488; Taxi 2000:021 9494;


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Weather

May is a late spring month in Romania. It may be warm but also it may rain. Temperatures

should be above 20 degrees at midday.

Money

The Romanian currency is leu (lei, on plural). The acronym for the Romanian currency is RON /

new Romanian leu. 1 EUR is about 4.3 - 4.4 RON. One should exchange money in a bank (there are a

lot of bank offices in Bucharest) or in the airport. Do not show your money to (fake) policemen on the

street!

Card user you can use your debit or credit cards at the ATM machines and in most of the

shops, hotels and restaurants in Bucharest.

Useful phones

112 European Emergency Number


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Conference venue

The conference Austerity, Communication and the Media will take place in the building of the

Casa Universitarilor, of the University of Bucharest, in the center of the city Str. Dionisie Lupu nr. 46 -

see red mark below.

Map of the center of Bucharest, with conference venue.


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