Call for papers for the HOPE 2023 Congress


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Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline:November 30, 2022
First Notification to Authors:January 15, 2023
Final decision on conference modality:Face to Face Congress
Early Registration (discount):January 1 – 31, 2023
Late RegistrationStarting February 1, 2023
Conference Date8-12 May, 2023
(if online, conference date will be 10-12 May, 2023)

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Shaping the Future With Education

Cultures, Relationships, Competencies

The Hospital Organisation of Pedagogues in Europe (HOPE) has appointed Italy as the host for its 12th International Congress. As a result, a consortium of representatives from hospital schools and universities was established to serve as the Conference Steering Committee.

The Congress will take place May 8-12, 2023 at the Stelline Congress Center in Milan, Italy. Should the Covid situation not allow safe travel at that time, the conference will be rescheduled online. The decision will be announced by January 10, 2023.

On behalf of the Conference Steering Committee and the Scientific Committee, we invite you to submit an abstract for a concurrent presentation at the 2022 HOPE Congress. The theme of the Conference is “Shaping the Future With Education: Cultures, Relationships, Competencies.”

We envisage that presentations will focus on the importance of education in fostering learning, health, wellbeing, and human development and in shaping citizens who can play an active role in society despite their health situation. Collaboration between health, education, and other social agencies are especially welcome.

This is an outstanding opportunity for you and your colleagues to join us and share your latest research and practices in education, health, and wellbeing of young people with health care needs.

The Scientific Committee

Presentation types

You are invited to submit an abstract for an oral presentation, workshop, or poster display.
Please refer to the following table to determine what type of presentation proposal is most suitable for your work.

Presentation typedescriptionduration
KeynoteKeynote speakers will be chosen with cultural, disciplinary, geographic, and other forms of diversity in mind.The role of keynote speaker is to feature as the headline speaker at the Congress. Able to invigorate an audience and deliver an engaging speech focusing on the topics established with the scientific committee, the keynote speaker is a proponent of the field in which he or she has excelled and gained significant experience.An exceptional keynote speaker understands the power he or she holds while on stage and, therefore, understands the responsibility when speaking on stage to the audience. A keynote speaker is expected to present information in an effective and original way, allowing audiences to view a subject in a different light.If you wish to propose a keynote speech or suggest a keynote speaker, please send an email to scientific.committee@hope22.eu.45 minutes, including time for questions
PresentationThe oral presentation may be authored by an individual or by a group. The abstract should be in line with the main theme of the conference and linked to the conference’s subthemes. Selected presentations will be delivered in the plenary sessions, while other may be grouped in concurrent sessions.20 minutes, including time for questions
WorkshopThe purpose of workshops is to provide an interactive and focused platform for presenting and discussing new and emerging ideas, sound practice, and classroom activities. Participants in workshop sessions are expected to take home something they can develop, implement, or adapt to their own teaching contexts. Workshops are intended to be thoroughly interactive with considerable participation and discussion from those attending. Workshops may have an explicit agenda of training participants on a given topic or of generating an interest group or network for future collaboration.  Workshops facilitators are expected to provide digital or paper-based handouts with practical instructions, templates, and products as well as up-to-date bibliography on the presented subject.60 minutes
PosterWorkshop Posters will be displayed over the three days of conference for the benefit of all delegates. All authors will also be allocated a time to present on the poster and, therefore, should be prepared to attend the poster session to discuss their poster with delegates.Poster should be A0 size – 1189×841 mm (portrait format)5 minutes to present each poster + time for questions
DemonstrationShowcases and live demonstrations allow companies to present recent developments and applications in the field, inform a large and qualified audience of their future directions, and feature their noteworthy products and services. There will be a time slot for companies to make their presentation in a meeting room. A contribution fee is expected from companies willing to set up their own showcase demo. For further details, please contact the sponsor chair – sponsors@hope22.eu 

Conference Topics

Your presentation is expected to match one or more of the suggested conference topics.

Cultures

Culture is a comprehensive concept and comprises many components, such as values and behavioural styles, language and dialects, nonverbal communication and perspectives, worldviews, and frames of reference (Banks, 2006). Cultural diversity is a significant element of modern society, encompassing our communities, workplaces, health care system, schools, and early learning services. In education, the concept of cultural and linguistic diversity (Parla, 1994) is used to identify a learner who differs from the mainstream culture in terms of ethnicity, social class and/or language.

To ensure social mobility and inclusion for all, an educational system must be successful in teaching every child to communicate and interact with people from different backgrounds and with different abilities (Kendall, 2010). This means teachers must excel at engaging and making sure learning and social inclusion happen for all students.

Sample topics:

  • Student, parent and/or family perspectives on education and health
  • Activities tailored for patients and families from different cultural or linguistic backgrounds
  • Sibling activities 
  • Inclusion in mainstream classes
  • Narrative activities aimed at acknowledging and empowering all forms of diversity as a key component of each person’s identity and of our modern societies

Relationships

A system only works if the relationships within its components function properly. Education comprises many interrelated components and several sets of relationships that occur at different levels. 

Sample topics:

  • The role of allied health professionals and educator teams in improving educational and developmental outcomes for young people
  • Effective engagement of students from diagnosis, treatment, and beyond in different education contexts (i.e., home, hospital, mainstream schools)
  • Class-student connections and activities that empower peer relationships as a crucial component of education during the different stages of the illness (e.g., hospitalisation, home treatments, school re-entry)
  • Support of students and families through the transition stages of the child’s development (e.g., early years to primary; primary to secondary; secondary to tertiary/employment)
  • Policy and advocacy that bridge the gap between the education and the health sectors with the hospital or in the mainstream schools
  • Maintaining relationships and empowering belonging of students with mental health needs, including new and emerging disorders such as school phobia, eating disorders, self-injury

Competencies

Competencies commonly define the skills and knowledge that empower people to successfully perform in professional, educational, and other life contexts. They are the means that allow us to actively act on reality in order to change and improve it. Competencies can involve any component of the education system, including teachers, students, health care professionals, family members, and so on.

Sample topics:

  • Interventions and strategies to support student-centred programs at home, in the hospital, or within the classroom
  • Teaching practices and strategies to support individual needs of students with specific illnesses in different settings (e.g., home, hospital, mainstream schools), as well as their teachers and schoolmates
  • The impacts of illness on quality of life: learning, social life, development
  • School re-entry programs and sound practices to inform and prepare the classroom, parents, and teachers for the presence of a student with special health care needs
  • The role of the homebound and hospital teacher in supporting the student’s education and development 
  • Preparing and supporting the class in dealing with bereavement and loss
  • Activities that build resilience in the classroom to foster the wellbeing of students
  • Effective coping with illness management in the classroom, at home, in the hospital,  including new and emerging disorders such as school phobia, eating disorders, self-injury

Where Is Technology?
The fact that something is technological does not automatically ensure its quality and relevance for the education field. Technology-based contributions are welcome as long as they fit within one of the above-mentioned topics and contribute to reaching educational goals.

Submission Guidelines

The following guidelines for all types of presentations are advisory. If you think there are good reasons to amend them, please feel free to do so.

If your abstract is for a presentation based on one or more empirical research projects, it should include the following:

  • Background and purpose: description of the background and starting problem, study objectives, research question(s) and/or hypotheses
  • Methods: study design, including a description of participants and selection strategies, data collection procedures, measures, and approaches to analysis
  • Findings: specific results in summary form
  • Conclusions and implications: description of the main outcome(s) of the study and implications for practice, policy, or further research
  • Bibliography: an updated bibliography on the subject in APA format, containing a maximum of 10 references.

If your abstract is for a presentation that is based on a practice intervention or school activity or project, it should include the following:

  • Background: description of the educational theory/ies, concept, or approach used in the intervention
  • Learning objectives: description of the learning objectives of the educational intervention
  • Activities: description of the activities that were done, as well as educational strategies and methods employed to reach the objectives 
  • Evaluation: report on the results of the activities in terms of participants, effects and/or products; possibily provide qualitative or quantitative evidence of the achievement.
  • Conclusions and implications of your presentation for practice, policy, or further research in home, hospital and classroom education.
  • Bibliography: an updated bibliography on the subject in APA format, containing a maximum of 10 references.

If your abstract is for a Workshop, it should include the following:

Background and purpose: description of the background and starting problem.
• Objectives and/or expected outcome: What are the objectives of the workshops? What will participants learn at the end of the workshop (in terms of Knowledge, Skills and Abilities)?
Activities: general description of the activities of the workshop.
Implications for teachers’ practice (can apply to different learning contexts: home, hospital and/or classroom education).
Bibliography: an updated bibliography on the subject in APA format, containing a maximum of 10 references.


Submission Preparation

The following guidelines apply to the submission of all abstracts:

Submissions on any topic, as outlined earlier in this document, will be considered.
Abstracts should be no more than 600 words in length (excluding bibliography). Abstracts exceeding this limit may not be considered.
Submissions must include a short biography of the presenter(s) – up to 150 words. This includes the submitter’s affiliation and past experience relevant to the conference theme. You are also encouraged to enclose a headshot of all the authors.
All abstracts must be relevant to the central conference theme and/or subthemes. Preference will be given to abstracts that are strongly linked to the conference theme and/or subthemes, so we encourage you to show this explicitly.

Please note that:

At least one author from each accepted submission must register to the full congress.

Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts as follows: one abstract of which they are the main author and one abstract of which they are a co-author.
All abstracts are to be submitted online through the congress’ submission page at https://www.hope22.eu/submission/subform before the submission deadline.
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their submission according to the timeline stated at the beginning of this document.

The Scientific Committee reserves the right to accept, require revisions, or reject any submission, as well as  to recommend a different collocation for your submission. The timelines for notification are included on the first page of this document. 

Evaluation Criteria

Abstracts will be evaluated by the scientific committee based on the following criteria:

  •  Relevance to the conference theme 
  •  General quality of the material presented – ensure that the paper is consistent with the structure outlined in the Call for Abstracts.
  • Originality of the proposed presentation, with particular regards to the previous HOPE Congresses.

Further Information

If you need clarification of the Call for Abstracts, please contact Michele Capurso, chair of the Scientific Committee, via email to scientific.committee@hope22.eu

If you need assistance in submitting your abstract via the online system, please contact Fabrizio Mencarini, Hope 2022 webmaster, via email to webhelp@hope22.eu