Network 11 received 54 proposals to participate at ECER 2008 within such network. From this number or proposals, 2 were of poster presentation; the other 52 were of papers. From the received proposals, 43 papers were accepted (82.69% of the proposed) for the quality of their content and suitable format. The accepted paper proposals represent an increase of 86.95% in relation to the previous ECER 07. The 2 proposed papers were both accepted (previous year there was only one). Before the final acceptance, some authors received recommendations or suggestions for them to rectify or complete their proposals in order to guarantee the necessary quality: those who acted according to the suggested recommendations had their proposals finally accepted; those who did not act according to such recommendations were finally rejected. During this process of reviewing and evaluating the received proposals, the EERA Secretary gave its support and assistance to the convenors and evaluators.
The accepted paper proposals were organized in 15 sessions. The number of sessions prepared for this year ECER 08 represented and increase of 98.36% compared to those prepared for previous year ECER 07. Of the accepted papers planned to be presented at the corresponding sessions, 10 of them were not presented. Apart from that, sessions were held regularly with reasonable good attendance of around 15-20 people. All sessions started and ended on time. Members of local time took very good care of opening and closing rooms doors in time and prepared the necessary materials (usually a computer and o beamer) to be used by presenters and chair discussants. It was, nevertheless mentioned that some presenters had difficulties to start with the computer available in the room as the operating system and program were in Swedish language.
Throughout sessions, the atmosphere was very friendly and participation was active, sometimes even intense, sometimes with provocation of profitable discussions on the presented topics. Although 2 or 3 presenters have some difficulties in expressing themselves in English language, communication was in general quite easy, open and understandable.
Attendants in session were 166 in total. They proceeded from different countries of Europe and of other continents. Countries represented by participants in the held sessions were the following 28:
Australia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA.
