General information

We would like to invite all ICO Members to ICO's 11th national networking event: the ICO National Spring School, on 17-18 March, 2022, at the University of Twente.

Networking event

The ICO National Spring School is a biennial, two-day networking event for all ICO Members: PhDs, staff and postdoc-members. During this event, ICO members can meet, mingle, and learn about the projects of other ICO members, while the PhD-candidates can practice their presentation skills in a safe environment.

At the ICO National Spring School, you can

  • learn about new developments in educational sciences during the presentations of the PhD-candidates;

  • meet kindred research spirits during the Meet-your-Theme Group-session;

  • and informally catch up with long lost colleagues at the conference dinner.

During both days a lunch will be offered.

We suggest you to stay in a hotel nearby to be present for the full programme and the NSS Dinner on Thursday evening. In due time, we will provide you with some information of available hotels and hostels in the area in case you need to find yourself a place to stay.

PhD candidate presentations

The focus of the National School is on the ICO PhD-candidates. PhD's will present their project, either in a Junior Presentation (for 1st and 2nd year candidates) or in a Senior Presentation (3rd or 4th year candidates). The Junior Presentation can be either a Poster Presentation, or a Round Table Session. The Senior Presentation is a Paper Presentation. More information about the different presentation types can be found on the website, on the pages on Presentations.

How to prepare?

For all presentation sessions it is required to send in a paper and an abstract before 11 February, 2022 at the latest. All papers will be accepted automatically. Send in your paper and abstract before the 11 February, using the submission form. More information on how to prepare can be found on the pages "Poster presentation", "Round Table presentation", and "Paper presentation".

ICO staff and postdoc members: our discussants and chairs

While the PhD-candidates are presenting their work, all attending ICO staff and postdoc-members will have a role either as chair of a session, or as a discussant. Of course, we will try to give all staff and postdocs the opportunity to be present as an auditor at the presentations of the projects they are involved in themselves, either as a promoter or as a supervisor. If you have any special wishes regarding the presentations of your PhD-candidates you want to attend, please let us know, using your registration form.

Registration and deadlines

  • Registration is open from medio December until 11 February 2022.

  • Send in your paper and abstract before 11 February, using the submission form

  • Do you want to be present, but cannot attend both days? No problem! You can also register for just one day.

Registration Fee

Day programme:

  • no fee

NSS conference dinner, Thursday 17 March:

  • max. € 55,00 (including drinks)

More information

Observers

We would strongly recommend attending the ICO National Spring School to all our members. As a PhD, if you are not yet ready to present your work, or if you have already done so in previous years, you are warmly invited to join us as an observer in order to meet people from the ICO network, and to learn from all presentations, discussions and workshops.

Workshops

All visitors to the National Spring School can attend the workshops. There will be room for ca. 20 people in each workshop. More information about the workshops can be found on the page "Workshops."

Special session

Meet Your Theme-Group-session: The aim of this session is for the theme group coordinators to meet with PhDs and staff members with a research interest in a specific theme. It is an informal meeting where you can shortly meet face-to face to inform each other about the courses offered within ICO by the theme group as well as discuss what kind of workshops would be of interest for future courses or ICO's International School.

More information on the various ICO Theme Groups can be found on the ICO Website.

We are looking forward to meeting you all again!

The organisation committee,

Miriam Knoef,
Mara Kirschner,
Caroline Vonk