We welcome sponsors who want to address young researchers from all over Europe as well as key policy makers in the European Higher Education and Research Areas. We offer fairly varied sponsorship opportunities ranging from small advertisements in conference materials to extensive presence at the conference.
You will find a short description of basic opportunities below. We will provide you with more details as well as with other sponsoring opportunities, e.g. trips, speeches, presentations, simulations and information mailings to participants, upon request. In a personal appointment we will find the best solution meeting your needs.
Contact
Please, contact the organising committee at 2009@eurodoc.net.
We are looking forward to hearing from you and building a relation that would go beyond the Eurodoc Annual Conference 2009.
About the Event
Eurodoc organises its Annual Conference since 2001. This major gathering of doctoral candidates and junior researchers in Europe proved to be a great opportunity for anybody to learn young researchers’ views and share their own with them. The conference aims to provide a framework for young European researchers to meet with other stakeholders in European research and Higher Education Areas and to engage them in fruitful discussions.
Audience
The primary audience of the conference are doctoral candidates from all over Europe – highly educated individuals, future decision and public opinion makers. Moreover, many of them will be present as representatives of national associations of doctoral candidates, thus making the impact of your advertising rather high. You will also reach our speakers and guests, well-known European policy makers in education and science and representatives of various European research institutions.
The strong presence of participants from Central and Eastern Europe is also worth emphasising as it might be an interesting market for expansion. Moreover, your advertising will reach a number of Slovak doctoral candidates and representatives of various institutions in Slovakia.
Offers
Options of your presence at the conference include
Whatever options you choose, you also automatically acquire space on the conference web site under the link Sponsors.
Conference Folder
At the beginning of the conference all participants will get a folder with all the important documents for the event such as the conference booklet. Your options range from a small logo on the cover of the folder to presenting your organisation in the form of a leaflet to exclusive utilizing of the cover of the folder and prominent placement of the folder at a registration desk.
Conference Booklet
The conference booklet will namely contain a detailed conference
programme, short CVs of speakers, abstracts of their speeches, information on the venue, transportation, attractions… In short, it will be an ultimate participants’ guide. Reaching every single participant, your advertisement in the booklet will accompany them during their stay in Banská Bystrica.
We plan an edition of 200 in the DIN A5 format. The cover will be in four-colour print, inner pages will be in black and white (greyscale possible).
Web Sites
Your logo or a banner can be placed on the Eurodoc web site at http://www.eurodoc.net/ and on the conference web site at http://www.eurodoc.net/2009/.
The Eurodoc web site is the primary source of information about Eurodoc and is regularly visited by people coming from various European research and education institutions, doctoral candidates in particular. It is also likely a reference point for participants of the Eurodoc Annual Conference 2009. The Eurodoc web site is on-line permanently, your advertisement will be visible for one year.
The conference web site is promoted as the primary source of information about the event. It provides the audience with details about the conference and assists them in coming to the conference. All participants will have to register for the conference via a registration form there. During the conference, a summary of individual sessions and days will be published there. It will also feature concluding reports, presentations and speeches after the conference. It will stay online indefinitely and will be referenced from the Eurodoc site. So will be your advertisements.
Both sites are referenced from a number of sites of various European organisations and media.
Presence at the Conference Venue
We give you the possibility to reach participants of the conference visually and personally at the conference venue at the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica. You can display information in the form of a poster or you can set up a full-featured stand in a frequented place.


