To browse Academia. Annamaria Silvana de Rosa. Christian A Bachmann , Nora Ramtke. As the COVID pandemic spread in Europe during the Spring of , the conference team agreed to go virtual with the conference, due to the foreseeable legal and logistical difficulties in planning and carrying it out in person.
From the outset, planning the virtual conference was flanked by an intensive process of reflection in which the conference team reviewed and adapted its objectives as well as the methods and processes required to achieve these goals.
This process of reflection was significantly more intensive than is the case with on-site conferences, which are based on existing experience and logistical support from the host institutions. The experiences and insights gained are shared in this report in order to assist in planning future conferences. Marcel Cobussen. This paper deals with the efficiency of publication means within the scientific community.
Scientists spend a substantial part of their total time in visiting meetings and conferences, reading publications, writing emails, etc. Thus any improvements in the Gina Sipley. Valentina Andries.
The coronavirus pandemic has required researchers to use online, virtual and remote methods of communicating with participants and audiences. While online and digital ways of working are not new, for many researchers the use of online events such as virtual exhibitions, hybrid outreach or online conferences became the only means of continuing to engage others with their work. Now, emergency measures and temporary pivots to digital ways of working have been replaced by reflection on how digital, remote and hybrid ways of working can be incorporated into future practices.
