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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>*** First Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers ***</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>(CAiSE'24)</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><a href="https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/">https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">(*** Submission Deadline: 8th March, 2024 AoE ***)</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The CAiSE conference series has a proud track record of running an international Doctoral</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Consortium affiliated with the event. The CAiSE'24 Doctoral Consortium aims to attract PhD</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications in the Information</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Systems Engineering field. At the Doctoral Consortium, the participating PhD students will</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">have the opportunity to present their research and to get feedback from an audience of peers
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and senior faculty in a supportive environment. There will also be discussions tailored to the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">needs and interests of PhD students.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to ensure that participating PhD students:</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">receive constructive and personalized feedback and advice on their research program by
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">dedicated Doctoral Consortium mentors,</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">provide an opportunity to meet, interact with and learn from established researchers and
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">practitioners in the Information Systems Engineering community,</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">develop a supportive community of peer scholars and a spirit of collaborative research,</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">discuss broader opportunities and concerns related to a PhD study and post-PhD pathways.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">To be eligible for the Doctoral Consortium, the candidate must be a current PhD student</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">within a recognized research institution. We welcome submissions of both late-stage PhD
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">students (having at least 6 months of work after the conference and before their expected
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">completion), and early-stage PhD students (with at least 6 months of work already performed
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">prior to the submission date).
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>WHY SUBMITTING TO THE CAiSE'24 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM?</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The CAiSE'24 Doctoral Consortium will be attended by renowned academics from the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Information Systems Engineering field who will actively participate as mentors for the PhD</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">students accepted to the Doctoral Consortium. The participating PhD students will receive
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">constructive reviews on their submission, as well as personalized guidance by Doctoral
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Consortium mentors regarding their research program and presentation at the Consortium
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">event. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR proceedings (<a href="https://ceur-ws.org/),">https://ceur-ws.org/),</a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">which are indexed in DBLP. Participants of the CAiSE Doctoral Consortium will be subsequently
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">eligible to submit their PhD thesis (after the degree is granted) for a CAiSE PhD Award.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>SUBMISSION PROCESS</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Submissions must be made electronically by the stated deadline via the EasyChair conference</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">system at
<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024</a> .
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Each submission should contain (i) a recommendation letter from the student’s PhD advisor,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and (ii) a paper describing the research plans and the current status of progress (see more
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">details in the Paper Submission Guidelines section). Submissions must have a single author,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">but the name of the PhD advisors should be mentioned in the paper (usually in the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Acknowledgments section).
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Submissions should concern original research. All submitted materials must be in English.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Attendees must have sufficient proficiency in English for being allowed to participate in the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">academic discussions of the Consortium.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Submissions of both early and late-stage PhD students are welcome. Submissions of</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">early-stage PhD students should concentrate on the selection of the research methods to</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">apply, the realization and contextualization of the relevant literature, the expected pitfalls and
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">ways to mitigate them. Submissions of late-stage PhD students should also include preliminary</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">research results and discuss to some extent conclusions and threats.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The recommendation letter from the PhD advisor should include an assessment of the current
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">status of the research, an expected date for the completion of the dissertation, a delineation</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">of the anticipated benefits for the student's participation at the Consortium and details of any
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">submissions associated with the research.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>PAPER CONTENT AND FORMAT</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The paper must:</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">clearly formulate the research questions investigated in the thesis,</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">identify a significant problem in the field of Information System Engineering,</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions,</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">describe the research methods that are applied or proposed and the expected artifacts,</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">outline the contributions of the applicant’s work to the problem domain and highlight their
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">uniqueness,</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">present any preliminary results achieved so far (mainly relevant for late-stage PhD students),</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">conform to the CEURART template using the 1-column layout format (thus, NOT the Springer
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">LNCS format and NOT in multiple column layouts); the most recent template (including
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Word and LaTeX) can be downloaded from
<a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/index.html,">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/index.html,</a>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">contain up to 4,000 words (including everything, e.g., references, tables, figures).</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>REVIEW PROCESS</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Each submission will be reviewed by two members of the Doctoral Consortium Mentoring</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Board. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance, originality, significance, technical</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">soundness, accuracy, clarity and the expected benefits to the student from participating in</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">the Doctoral Consortium. Acceptance is based on the review outcomes.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>ATTENDANCE AND REGISTRATION FEE</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The Doctoral Consortium is held in parallel with the main CAiSE conference on 5-7 June 2024.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The presentations and decisions are expected to take place in person, so attendance in the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">entire Doctoral Consortium is required. To facilitate detailed feedback to the participants,
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">attendance to the Doctoral Consortium is by invitation only, limited to the participants and the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Mentoring Board.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">There is no separate registration fee for participants in the Doctoral Consortium. Participants
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">should register to the main conference by selecting either the “Main conference” option or
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">another option that includes the main conference.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Submission: 8th March 2024 (AoE)</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Notification of Acceptance: 19th April 2024</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Camera-ready Copy: 26th April 2024</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Doctoral Consortium: 5th-7th June 2024</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>QUESTIONS AND INQUIRIES</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Consortium chairs at caise2024_dc@easychair.org .
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>MENTORING BOARD</b></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Raimundas Matulevičius, University of Tartu, Estonia</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Massimo Mecella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Hajo Reijers, Utrecht University, the Netherlands</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Monique Snoeck, KU Leuven, Belgium</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Barbara Weber, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS</b></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Chiara Di Francescomarino, University of Trento, Italy</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece</span></div>
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