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Editor: Michel Deleau
This issue of the newsletter is the first one in this new format. As the first issue, it has been decided to make it available on the Website not only to regular members but also to all colleagues who have taken part in the recent European Conferences, and more generally to any interested person.
However, in the future it will be accessible only to members, and give them all information on different topics as workshops and summer schools, European networks, Conferences and other information of interest.
Dear members and not-yet-members,
It is a great honour to be the President of ESDP. First of all there was this most successful conference in Milan: scientifically and socially most satisfying. The Society owes a lot to the local chair, professor Paola Di Blasio, and her dedicated team. Secondly there is the great new contract with Psychology Press about the flag ship publication of the Society: The European Journal of Developmental Psychology. The first issue will be launched in March 2004. The Journal will certainly create the opportunity to strengthen the distinctive features of European developmental psychology. At the same time the journal will demonstrate that European developmental psychology contributes substantially to the global advancement of developmental research. Thirdly there is this wonderful, active new Society Council and new Executive Committee, nicely representing European Developmental psychology in many respects: qua specialization niches, geographically, qua gender and age.
ESDP is taking a new trajectory, a trajectory to maturity and professionalization. We are not yet there, be we are on the road!!
I have however to mention one precondition for a successful future, and that is the membership. We cannot go on like in the past, where there are 4 times more participants in the Conferences than members of the Society. Non-members should realize that in this way the members sponsor the Conferences for non-members. To end this situation the Council has decided that in the future it will not be possible to attend the Conference, without paying extra money, being the fee for two years. After paying this extra part of the Conference fee these participants are eligible to be members of the Society. It is to be expected that this strategy will end the discrepancy between membership and Conference-participation. But of course it is far to be preferred that not-yet members simply take action to become one now. Soon the new website will offer the simplest way to do so.
Let me conclude with the statement that the Society is the leading professional organization for European developmental psychologists and colleagues from allied disciplines. You, members and not-yet-members are invited to make this even truer than it already is.
Willem Koops, President.
Sandy Jackson has been one of the two founding fathers of the Society.
Together with George Butterworth, he was active not only in the discussions preparing the foundation of the Society, but he continued to be active as the Secretary and Treasurer of the Society although he was severely ill until his untimely death in July 2003.
His death is an irreplaceable loss not only for the Society but also for those who have worked with him on adolescent development and, more generally, for the field of Developmental Psychology; also for those attached to the promotion of young researchers to whom he always paid great attention. We miss him as a friend and as an enthusiastic and helpful companion. On behalf of the Society, the Council has expressed to Janet Jackson and her family our profound sadness.
The Milan Conference was dedicated to him, and a specific meeting honoured his memory.
A special issue of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology dedicated to Sandy will be published in 2004.
After the last electoral turn, the Council has been partly modified.
We want to thank again our colleagues and past members Claes von Hofsten (Sweden) and Adam Niemczynsky (Poland) for their contribution to the Society. We are also happy to welcome the new members who have been elected in 2003: Bente Wold (Norway), Rita Zukauskiene (Lithuania) and Blaise Pierrehumbert (Switzerland).
The new Council (2003-2005)
Elias Besevegis (Greece)
Luigia Camaioni (Italy)
Charles Crook (U.K.)
Michel Deleau (France)
Scania de Schonen (France)
Magda Kalmar (Hungary)
Willem Koops (The Netherlands)
Jacqueline Nadel (France)
Blaise Pierrehumbert (Switzerland)
Maria Jose Rodrigo (Spain)
Christiane Spiel (Austria)
Bente Wold (Norway)
Rita Zukauskiene (Lituania)
The Executive Committee
President: Willem Koops
President-elect: Luigia Camaioni
Secretary-Treasurer: Michel Deleau
The present Newsletter will be sent regularly twice a year, in spring and autumn. It intends to give members updated information on the life of the Society as well as on on-going events concerning Developmental Psychology at large.
The address of the Internet site has changed:
www.esdp.info
It presents permanent information on the Society such as regulations, membership, elections and information on its main activities such as conferences, journal, networks, and workshops.
The European Journal of Developmental Psychology is now launched, four issues will be published each year; the first issue will appear in March 2004.
The scope of the Journal as well as its editorial board and the announcement of future issues are presented on the Internet site of Psychology Press. This first issue will be entirely accessible on Internet.
http://www.psypress.co.uk
Considering that the membership will include from January 2004 onwards the Journal and more generally new services to the membership, the Business meeting has endorsed the following membership fees.
<small>* Reduced fees only for colleagues from those countries considered as developing ones by the World Bank (the updated list will be on the internet site of the Society)</small>
This increase of the fees is directly connected to the delivering of new services, amongst which the Journal, received for free by members, and is partly compensated by the reduction of 75 ( 40 for reduced fees) for the future Conferences fees (for two years membership only). Thus the real cost of the membership itself will be only 45 for two years.
Members will receive:
Join the Society now if you are not yet a member.
If you are not sure that you are registered or not, check on the Internet Site (Directory of members) and, if necessary, fill the membership forms and follow the instructions. You will thus benefit of these new services.
To download the membership forms, please go to the Internet site of the Society (supra)
The following new deadlines have been adopted:
Call for nominations: during the year preceding the Conference
Opening: Mai 1st
Deadline for proposals: October 1st
Proposers for nominees shall be members of the Society.
Candidates shall be members of the Society at the time they are proposed as Nominees.
Nominations results: December 1st
Voting: January 1st to February 15th the year of the Conference
Only those who are members of the Society are allowed to vote i.e. those who have paid their fees before December 31st the year preceding the vote.
The vote will be done by post
Results of the votes: March 15th the year of the Conference
Following the first initiative taken during the Milan Conference, a new "Young scientist award" will be attributed in 2005, during the Tenerife Conference. The nomination and choice rules are the same.
Any dissertation in the (broadly defined) domain of developmental psychology that has been successfully defended at a University in any European country during the period 1-1-2003 to 31-12-2004 is eligible to be included in the competition organized by the ESDP.
Nominations of authors of the dissertations (the former Ph D students) as candidates for the award should be received by February 28 2005. Self-nominations are permitted. The applicants should send a paper based on the thesis in English, both in printed version and as file via email to each of the committee members. The paper should fulfil the APA criteria. The length of the paper should not exceed 25 pages (double spaced) excluding figures and tables. At the same time the applicants should send one copy of the original thesis (any European language is permitted) to each member of the committee. All nominations should also be accompanied by 2 letters of recommendation by senior scholars.
A committee consisting of Luigia Camaioni (chair), luigia.camaioni@uniroma1.it , Jacqueline Nadel, j.nadel@ext.jussieu.fr , and Christiane Spiel, christiane.spiel@univie.ac.at should select the best thesis. The criteria should be good quality publications, well constructed studies, insightful analyses, plus that little bit extra which makes the difference between the good and the best.
The awardee will receive 500. He/she will be offered the opportunity to present the research of the dissertation as an invited address at the next ESDP Conference in Tenerife, and will be invited and supported to publish the invited address in the European Journal of Developmental Psychology.
This Conference, chaired by Paola di Blasio has been held in Milan, from Aug. 27 to 31 2003. Some 800 participants have attended to 6 Invited Addresses and presented and/or attended to 49 symposia, 46 thematic sessions, 3 poster workshops, and presented some 335 posters.
For the first time, the Young Scientist award has been awarded to a young Doctor: Bram Orobio de Castro, from Utrecht University. After a brilliant presentation the awardee has received a grant of 500 from the Society, and has been invited to produce a paper to be included in a future issue of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology (EJDP).
An other innovation was the presentation of European projects. Some 50 attendants have discussed of the opportunity of the creation of a European network on developmental pragmatics.
The details of the programme are still presented on the Internet site of the Conference:
http://www.promoitaliaonline.net/XIECDP
Tenerife, Spain, University of La Laguna 24 to 28 Aug, 2005
The Conference, organised under the auspices of the Society, is chaired by Pr Maria Jose Rodrigo. It will be held from 24 to 28 Aug. 2005 at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
All the details on the submissions, programme, registration etc, will be found on the Internet site of the Conference:
http://www.magnacongresos.com/xiiecon.
From June 25 to June 28 2004 for ISDP (International Society for Developmental Psychobiology) and from June 28 to June 30 2004, for BGA (Behaviour Genetics Association). The two Societies will share Monday 28.
Local host for the two meetings: Pierre L. Roubertoux, INPC-CNRS, Marseille
for International Society for Developmental Psychobiology: http://www.oswego.edu/isdp
for Behavior Genetics Association: http://www.bga.org/
The next ISSBD congress, chaired by Leni Verhofstadet-Denθve, University of Ghent, will be held in Ghent, Belgium from July 11 to 15, 2004.
Too late for early birds!
But the Registration is open
All informations on the Site of the Congress: http://allserv.rug.ac.be/ISSBD2004
