The 67th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan
Japanese

ER-Symposium

Call for Proposals for the Ecological Research Symposium (ER-Symposium)

We invite proposals for the ER-symposium at the 67th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (ESJ67), which will be held in March 2020.

The ER-symposium is a symposium that invites outstanding foreign researchers by providing their traveling expenses for attending the ESJ meeting.. Invited speakers are asked to contribute to the journal Ecological Research (ER).

As we previously provided guidance in newsletter No. 48 , we are planning to accept more than one foreign speaker to ESJ67 as ER-Symposium speakers.

The ER-Symposium speakers are provided traveling fees and free entry. ER-Symposium speakers are requested to submit an article to ER after the meeting. The article should be related to the symposium.

We look forward to receiving applications from organizers who are planning to invite foreign speakers to ESJ67. Please read the ER-Symposium guideline below.

（Call for Proposals for the ER-Symposium）

  • The speaker invited by Ecological Research is financially supported by ER. The support includes only flight tickets (limited to economy class) and actual expense for accommodation during ESJ annual meeting. Invited speakers by Ecological Research and their accompanying person can participate in all meetings and the banquet for free.
  • The speaker invited by Ecological Research is requested to submit at least one article (original paper and/or review paper) to Ecological Research.
  • Ecological Research can financially support no more than one invited speaker per proposal. (but note that there is no limit to the number of invited speakers who do not expect financial support by ER for the symposium).
  • ER symposium language is English only.
  • ER welcomes people of any non-Japanese nationality as an invited speaker.
  • Symposium proposals are reviewed by the symposium committee of ESJ 67. The number of symposiums that can be enjoyed with financial support is one or more (three people were adopted as invited speakers by Ecological Research for ESJ 66).
  • The ER symposium encourages invitations of international researchers who have not previously been invited as the ER symposium keynote lecturer in the past ESJ meetings. The speakers who have been invited to ER-symposium in the past will be given low priority. Contributing an original article to Ecological Research by the invited speakers is considered as a key requirement of being designated as the ER symposium. When submitting a proposal, the organizer should make sure that all the candidate speakers agree with this requirement and to be listed as an invited speaker. All proposals expecting financial support must be send to the ESJ office by e-mail before 23:59 (Japanese standard time) on 30 August 2019. Judgment for adoption as a symposium receiving financial support will be made in September 2019, and the result will be noticed before the end of the month.
  • For inquires, please contact esj_sympo@mail.esj.ne.jp.
  • The ER-symposium proposal must contain:
    1. Title, abstract, and a list of Authors.
    2. The name(s) of the speaker(s) invited by Ecological Research
    3. The following information: how the invited speakers of Ecological Research add value to the symposium (or why the symposium will lose value without the speakers invited by Ecological Research), what merit ESJ members can receive from articles submitted to ER that are written by the invited speakers of Ecological Research, and any other points that qualify the candidate as the ER-invited speaker of the symposium.
    4. A synopsis of the article(s) that will be submitted to ER.
    5. A list of publications of the candidate ER-invited speaker (up to 5 papers) with the number of citations per each paper.
    Note that the publication list is used as a reference by the symposium committee to confirm that the speakers invited by Ecological Research undoubtedly fulfill the information requested in (3). The ESJ symposium committee also prefers young scientists who have a small number of papers and citations but are active in a hot topic area.

Supplement: At the ESJ67 symposium, there is a system called "the invited speaker" other than "the ER symposium speaker invited by Ecological Research" for whom traveling expenses are not provided. Under the system of "the invited speaker", you can invite superior non-ESJ members (regardless of nationality) as guest speakers for whom the meeting entrance fee is waived. There are no restrictions on the number of people for the invited speaker system. If you are not adopted for the ER symposium, the "the invited speaker" system applies.

Reference: Call for Proposals for the Normal Symposium (common to ER-Symposium)

  • Only ESJ members can be symposium organizers (including co-organizers).
  • To deepen exchanges with various academic research fields, organizers can invite non-ESJ members as guest speakers. The invited speakers are provided with free entry. However, the same non-ESJ member cannot be an invited as a speaker for two consecutive years.
  • The duration of a symposium is c.a. three hours.
  • Registration of presentation titles and speakers’ information (name and affiliations, etc.) should be written in Japanese and English.
  • The deadline for abstract submission for the symposium is the same as that for the oral/poster presentation submission.

If you have any questions about applying to the symposium, please check the inquiry page

Please read the Symposium guide:
http://www.esj.ne.jp/meeting/67/meetings.html#simpo

We look forward to receiving applications from potential organizers.

Chief of ESJ67 Symposium Committee,
Motohiro Kawanishi