The conference is sponsored by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) and its scheme "Scientific Meetings and Consultations". 

The aim of this scheme is to facilitate academic networks and collaboration in the (inter)national context within the natural and physical sciences, including collaborations with other scientific domains, by means of scientific meetings and consultations. The programme supports the exchange of research and ideas as well as the formation of research communities.

LOT unites about 400 faculty members and 300 PhD and RMa students and provides a meeting point to further national and international communication for the benefit of linguistic research and education. Researchers from the participating institutes share knowledge, work together on theoretical and methodological matters, discuss their data and research in seminars and lecture series and in collaborations of various other kinds.

Frontiers' Journal Section: Multimodality of Communication

This section explores the challenges raised by the inherent multimodality of all forms of communication. The conference will be accompanied by a Research Topic in this section, more information will follow soon. 

Visual Communication frames the study of the visual as a fundamental aspect of communication in order to understand the place of the visual in a broader social and cultural context. The journal addresses the role of the visual in relation to other semiotic resources, to communication in general, and to questions of meaning. The journal invites contributions on the nature of contemporary, historical, and future semiotic landscapes - through theory, empirical analysis, practice, and/or critique.

Manuscript Submission via: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vcj.

Multimodality & Society consolidates and advances the development of multimodal research theory, methodologies, and contributes to empirical understanding of how multimodality shapes the social landscape of interaction and communication. 

Manuscript Submission via: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mmas.

University of Groningen Press is an open access publisher. We provide a publishing platform for journals, books, open textbooks and inaugural lectures by teachers and researchers working at or with the University of Groningen. The open access publishing model enables any interested reader around the world to find and access the information.

The Jantina Tammes School is one of the research schools at the University of Groningen and hosts the conference in the House of Connections.