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This is a reminder that the submission deadline for BCCCD21 is in a week (October 8, midnight CET). </div>
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We are happy to receive submissions to present ongoing work and preregistered projects. You can submit an abstract for a presentation, or a proposal for a discussion session (see below for detailed information).</div>
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Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us if you have questions, e.g. about the online format of the conference!</div>
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Laura Schlingloff & Péter Rácz (conference chairs)</div>
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<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Cognitive Development Center at </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CEU is
pleased to announce the 11th annual BCCCD meeting to take place <b class=""><i class=""><u class="">ONLINE</u></i></b>, 4-8 January, 2021. We welcome</span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> submissions from all areas related to
cognitive development. Our invited speakers are Laura Schulz (MIT) and Giorgio Vallortigara (University of Trento). </span></div>
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<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The deadline for all submissions is 8 October 2020. </span></div>
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<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Notifications of acceptance will be sent out on 31 October 2020.</span></div>
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<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You can find detailed information at <a href="http://www.bcccd.org/" class="">www.bcccd.org</a>.</span>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since the online format will be new to both organisers and presenters, we made a short FAQ, which you can also watch as a video <a href="http://youtu.be/nsDV6aCSkH4" title="youtu.be/nsDV6aCSkH4" class="">here</a>.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="">Will the BCCCD conference take place entirely online?</b></span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yes. No official events will be scheduled in Budapest, Vienna, or elsewhere.</span></div>
<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Is the format of submissions going to be the same as in previous years?</span></div>
<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Not quite. If you’d like to present at the conference, we ask you to submit a max 250-word abstract before 8 October, as in previous years.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Once you get accepted, the presentation format WILL be different. We won’t have 90 minute blocks of 15 minute talks. We won’t have posters either. Instead, we will have a single presentation
type, called presentation. A presentation consists of two parts:</span></div>
<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (i) one five-minute video in which you sum up the work/results/arguments/proposals. Imagine this as the elevator pitch you do when someone approaches your poster at the conference!
Feel free to spruce up your video with on-screen text, images, animations, and so on. Subtitles are especially welcome</span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></div>
<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (ii) further information in any non-video format. This can be a standard poster PDF, however, we welcome</span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> alternative
formats. To help with this, we will provide some templates to presenters ahead of time. Other than that, we encourage creativity -- build a website, include animations, link to your stimuli, the paper, or your personal site.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We also invite suggestions for discussion sessions. These are similar to symposia but the participants don’t give talks; rather, they discuss an idea (theory, method, controversy) relevant
to cognitive development. You can submit a proposal for a discussion session by specifying its topic (it can also be a paper) and you can also suggest panel members. A discussion session has a 5 minute introduction, followed by 5 minute contribution from each
of the 3-5 panel members, which is then concluded by a live discussion moderated by the proposer.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="">How will you schedule the presentations?</b></span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Registered participants can upload their presentations from early January, and others will be able to access them throughout the month. We will schedule real-time conference slots where
our participants can talk to each other. We will make sure there aren’t too many presentations in the same slot so that you can check out all the presentations you are interested in and everyone can talk to everyone else.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Each presentation will be assigned to two 90-minute-long time slots, depending on the presenter’s geo-location. We will make sure that each presenter can meet all registered participants
real-time, whether they are in London, San Francisco, Delhi, or Tokyo. The plenary presentations (invited talks, discussion sessions) will be streamed live to all participants.</span></div>
<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Where will you schedule the presentations?</span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We will host the conference on a platform that allows for structured asynchronous discussions as well as video conferencing. Each presentation will have its own chat room, with the video
and further information pinned in the room. Additionally, there will be thematically focused discussion rooms and opportunities for virtual socializing.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="">This looks really complicated. Why did you do it like this?</b></span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The pandemic situation looks prohibitive for international conferences in the foreseeable future, especially for our overseas visitors. This precludes an in-person conference. We think
we should benefit from the online format to create a more flexible conference experience where attendees can mix and match what they want to see. At the same time, we wanted to have specific times where people are there together in the spirit of BCCCD, even
if only virtually.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="">How much will this cost?</b></span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A lot less, since you don’t have to fly, dine out, or pay for accommodation. We will also offer considerably reduced registration fees which will give you access to the conference communication
channels, the pointers to the recordings, and the detailed programme brochure. The fee will be 40EUR for full-paying participants and 30EUR for students.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="">If I submit data this year, can I submit the same data next year at the, hopefully, in-person conference?</b></span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We will not filter or monitor submissions for this in any way.</span></div>
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