Events related to the INFOCORE Consortium

• Final Stakeholder Seminar, Brussels, Belgium. November 16, 2016

  November 16th, 2016 9:00:am,

  On 16th November 2016, the INFOCORE team presented the final conclusions of their respective work packages to expert stakeholders from academia, media groups, policy-makers and NGOs. Each presentation was followed by a Q&A session with stakeholders also invited to give their feedback and suggestions. The final stakeholder seminar was held in Brussels, Belgium.        

• Great Lakes Area Stakeholders workshop, Gisenyi, Rwanda, September 28-29, 2016 

  September 28th, 2016 9:00:am,

  On 28 and 29 September 2016, five researchers from the INFOCORE team, representing almost all work packages of the project gathered with around 50 journalists, academics, policy makers and civil society representatives from the DRC and Burundi. This third INFOCORE dissemination stakeholder workshop took place in the town of Gisenyi (in Rwanda) and aimed at discussing the first provisional findings from the different work packages.

  

• Joint MeCoDEM – INFOCORE Workshop for Early-Career Researchers, University of Leeds, 6th of September 2016

  September 6th, 2016 10:00:am,

  MEDIA AND CONFLICT: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

  INFOCORE has been working closely with another FP7 EU-Project MeCoDEM given the research focus of both projects on the role of media in conflicts, collaboration between the scholars can contribute greatly to the results as well as initiate new research projects in future. This time, following the joint INFOCORE - MeCoDEM panel at ECREA 2014, a joint MeCoDEM - INFOCORE early-career researchers workshop took place at the University of Leeds on the 6th of September 2016, giving an opportunity to doctoral candidates as well as to post-doctoral students to present their own research and approaches to studying media and conflict. The workshop consisted of three panels and a round table where the participants had a chance to present their work and express their opinions on polarisation and nationalism as parts of conflict and democratisation. INFOCORE was represented by two PhD candidates at the workshop: Katsiaryna Stalpouskaya who has reported on INFOCORE’s innovative approach to automated content analysis and Ieva Zakareviciute who investigates the role of visuals in conflict discourses. Both presentations received a lot of positive feedback and valuable comments which can be used in doctoral thesis of Katsiarya and Ieva as well as to further advance INFOCORE’s methodology. Ieva was also one of the key speakers at the round table. More information on the participants and speakers can be found here.

  

• Stakeholders’ workshop, Larnaca, Cyprus, July 24-25 2016.

  July 24th, 2016 9:00:am,

  On July 24 and 25th, 2016 in Cyprus, the INFOCORE team met with journalists, academics, representatives from NGOs, and political leaders. During the conference, the INFOCORE team shared the results and findings from research conducted. These analyses were primarily focused in the Middle East, the West Balkans, and the African Great Lakes, and were expressed through presentations and follow-up discussions in a comparative assessment.

   

• Balkan Stakeholders workshop, Ohrid, July 2-3, 2016

  July 2nd, 2016 4:30:pm,

  

• Advisory Board Meeting II – Brussels – 11 October, 2015

  October 11th, 2015,

  

• Stakeholders Seminars (Media, Policy Makers, Academics, NGOs), Brussels 9-10 Oct 2015

  October 9th, 2015,

  1. Opening panel for the Stakeholder Seminars (Day 1, 9 October 2015)

  INFOCORE’s first Stakeholders’ Seminars took place in Brussels, on October 9th and 10th. In a series of presentations and seminars each Work Package presented to the four main stakeholder groups: policy-makers, academics, NGOs, and media. During these events, researchers from the eight Work Packages came together to share findings from the first fieldwork and first analytic stages of the project. The aim of the Stakeholder meeting was to shape policy debate and to test findings in their respective fields based on feedback from each Stakeholder Seminar. Based on the input from each Stakeholder group the Work Package leaders will advance to the next stage of the project.

    2. Stakeholders Group: Academics 3. Stakeholder Group: Media 4. Stakeholder Group: NGOs 5. Stakeholder Group: Policy Makers   6. Stakeholder Group: All together - Conclusions (Day 2, 10 October 2015)  

• INFOCORE Dictionary Workshop – 20th March 2015

  March 20th, 2015,

       

  Successful INFOCORE dictionary construction workshop at the School of Journalism and PR in Skopje: Getting ready to automatically recognize important conflict-related contents in different languages.

• General Assembly II – 16th & 17th November

  November 16th, 2014,

    The second General Assembly of the INFOCORE Consortium took place from 16 to 17 November 2014 in Lisbon.

• Advisory Board Meeting I

  November 15th, 2014,

  November 15, 2014 - Lisbon, Portugal

  INFOCORE Project Coordinator, Romy Froehlich opens meeting
   
  Advisory Board Members: Prof. Dr. Scott Althaus, Dr. Philip Seib, and Arne Köning
   
  Advisory Board Members: Giacomo Mazzone and Patrick Leusch

• Working Groups Content Analysis and Working Group Interview Analysis Meeting, Munich, 7-8 July 2014

  July 7th, 2014, LMU Munich, IfKW

  
  Working Groups Content Analysis and Working Group Interview Analysis Meeting, Munich, 7-8 July 2014

  The Content Analysis Methodological Group developed a practical and intense agenda in order to clarify the conceptual framework and move towards the definition of the methodological strategy. The first day, all the group members learned to use the specific software that will allow them to perform the automatic content analysis. On Tuesday, the different WPLs presented their goals and discussed on specific issues such as the periods of analysis, the collection of data, the preparation of dictionaries in different languages and the qualitative approach to the corpus.

  The Interviewing Methodological Group of the INFOCORE focused on three main aspects of the research project: First, all Interviewing Working Packages (WP's) presented the respective conceptual framework papers and discussed the areas where further clarification and improvement is necessary. This is to serve as a basis for the construction of the complete methodological frameworks of the respective WP's; Second, the Interviewing WP members discussed organizational issues regarding the execution of the research - this entailed coordination issues to ensure better quality of the research results and; Finally, Interviewing WP members in a joint session with the Content Analytical Group discussed the issue of interconnectedness of the research across different areas. WP members agreed on the general conclusions of these discussions and in the following months will take action to implement them into the respective research plans.

• General Assembly & Kick-off Meeting

  January 17th, 2014, GGI Brussels

  
  From 17.-19. January 2014 the INFOCORE’s kick-off meeting and first General Assembly took place in Brussels. The event officially launched the administrative and research activities of the three-year project (1/2014-12/2016). The kick-off meeting provided detailed information on the main activities of the project until 2016. The WP leaders decided in particular on the general ‘Roadmap’ and the strategy for year 1, agreed on the management & communication structure, tasks & schedules and the monitoring process, constituted INFOCORE’s governing bodies, discussed on a first version of the CA and on ethics issues. In the afternoon, a conference with INFOCORE project and legal officers followed. On Saturday, INFOCORES project manager provided important information on practical and administrative affairs. Two different working groups (“Interviewing Strategies” and “Content Analyses”) then developed first steps towards the specific methodological frameworks.