[Asis-l] ECIR 2016: Call for the ECIR student mentoring programme

[Gianmaria Silvello]

*	1st Call for the ECIR student mentoring programme	*

The 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval

          	   20 - 23 March, 2016
            	   Padua, Italy
             http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/
             https://twitter.com/ecir2016

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ECIR 2016 is offering a student mentoring programme with the objective to help and support students with the writing of their papers to be submitted to the ECIR conference – and hereby increase the quality of submissions.

The ECIR 2016 conference is to be held in Padua, Italy, 20-23 March 2016. For more information about the ECIR ´16 conference, please visit the conference website: ecir2016.dei.unipd.it

If you are a student who plans to submit a paper to ECIR ´16, you may consider the ECIR student mentoring programme. The ECIR student mentoring programme offers help, guidance, and feedback on the writing of your draft paper by assigning a mentor to you, who help you in preparing and maturing the paper for submission. 

How to sign up for the ECIR student mentoring programme: 
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1) You send an email to Jaana Kekäläinen (jaana.kekalainen at uta.fi). In the email you describe the topic of your paper and possibly the problems you might have concerning the paper. Signing up takes place in the period of July 6 - August 7, 2015. 
2) Then we match you with a relevant and competent scholar, basically based on your description of your topic of the paper. 
3) We email you the name and email address of the assigned mentor (August 21, 2015). 
4) You contact by email the mentor with your draft paper (attached the email), including an outline of what in particular you need help with, that is, what you wish the mentor to focus on in the reading of your draft paper. 
5) Having read the draft paper the mentor emails the feedback to you. This may develop into an email correspondence. 

Some notes: 
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•	Please note, when submitting the draft paper to the assigned mentor, the paper should be a completed draft that allows the mentor to provide you with constructive feedback. 
•	Do also note that participation in the ECIR student mentoring programme does not guarantee acceptance of research papers at the ECIR 2016 conference. 
•	Finally, it should be noted that all mentors help out on a voluntary basis and should be acknowledge and respected for this willingness to contribute their spare time.

Dates:
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•	Mentors can be signed up for from: July 6 – August 7, 2015. 
•	Mentors will be assigned: August 21, 2015. 
•	Deadline for submission of full paper to ECIR 2016 is: October 9, 2015. 

We look forward to receive an email from you!
Jaana Kekäläinen & Paolo Rosso 

Jaana Kekäläinen, University of Tampere, Finland 
Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

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