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The call for abstracts is still open! We want to give you more time.
The deadline for submissions has been moved to March 15th, 2021. Invitation to join in creating a wonderful and inspiring HCIM 2021 Connecting worlds, connecting people, changing spaces. That is the theme of the next Healthcare Clowning International Meeting in October 2021. And that is exactly what we want to achieve together with all of you! Because together we make the world a little bit better. And by sharing and connecting, we can make sure that the impact of health care clowning enlightens the life of so many vulnerable people all over the world. Live and online! In the past year we learned that technology helps us to connect with each other in a way we could have never imagined before we got overwhelmed by Covid19. This gives us the opportunity to get in touch with even more people who are in healthcare clowning. The conference in October 2021 will therefore have an online and a live program. Please join! Submit your abstract. Are you a clown, a researcher, an artistic coach or trainer, a fundraiser, a manager or someone else in our playing field? Do you have examples of successful collaborations with healthcare professionals? Do you want to share new playing methods? Are there important and interesting stories involving impact on children or other people you played for? Or perhaps you have accomplished some successful innovations in marketing and fundraising? Please share these stories with the rest of the world! We need you to make this conference as worthwhile as the one in Vienna two years ago! So, do you have best practices, new ideas, inspiring stories, new skills, technologies, inventions, or experiences? Do you want to present inspiring co-creations with relevant partners from health, arts and nonprofit organisations? And would you like to share them with your international peers? Please feel welcome to submit your contribution. Do you want to know more about the process to submit your abstract? You can find everything you need to know on this page! Scroll down to find more information. Key dates
March 15, 2021 Deadline to submit an abstract May 15, 2021: Early bird registration July 1, 2021: End of early bird registration September 20, 2021: End of registration * All dates are subject to change. Please check back regularly to have the most up-to-date information We invite submission of abstracts related to the following topics:
1. Connections/impact; 2. Arts; 3. Progress; 4. Research; 5. Fundraising. Scroll down to find more information about the topics, forms of presentation, the guidelines and the criteria. |
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1.Connections/Impact
The positive impact of healthcare clowning is the result of multiple disciplines coming together. During this meeting we will make our common purpose crystal clear – among us and for the outside world. From there we will create a clear and impactful story to communicate our role in relation to our stakeholders and society at large. We know healthcare clowning is more than a “nice to have” and it’s our job to make sure the world knows the same. Together we will work on solutions to heighten awareness about this life-changing art. We will share and develop the curriculum for care and medical specialists. We will strengthen our lobbying and networking capabilities to ensure our continued success– through the pandemic and beyond. Topics for your submission could include:
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2. Arts Here we will explore the art of clowning, share knowledge and co-create beyond what we know now by asking: where else can we take clowning? How else can our skills be used? How to use clowning to connect with our target groups? Together we ensure a bright future for clowning. We will share latest developments, methods and approaches to healthcare clowning. This includes a dynamic best practice forum for top trainers. We will be meeting in person and online to share what the online world has to offer – and where this space might grow. Let’s see where we can draw inspiration from and co-create with other art forms and methods! Topics for your submission could include:
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3. Progress
This section will take an energizing look at how we continue to develop, innovate and grow in our organizational structures and leadership. We will look at the benefits of a flexible way of working and the strengths of a networked organization. We will cover leadership and artistic development for groups of all sizes, explore digital offerings to strengthen our work and take a careful look at crisis and risk management. Using open space sessions, we will provide highly interactive opportunities to develop playful ways of restructuring: hierarchy versus creative structures. Topics for your submission could include:
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4. Research
Join us to share and learn about the latest research in our field. How important it is to measure impact and developing models. We also aim to further strengthen participation. We will present impact on work with different target groups. The framework of change. Measuring the effect of the applied arts buy sharing best practices. We also will share all we can to strengthen our processes and people through the pandemic, including how we adapt our internal evaluation processes. We will look at recent findings from research that we have been conducting through these challenging times including the psychological effect of the pandemic on staff. Topics for your submission could include:
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5. Fundraising
Fundraising is important to be able to do the work of healthcare clowning. As a charity, we need to raise funds to achieve our goals. In addition, we have a permanent circle of many loyal donors. That is quite effective, but often not sufficient. Raising funds means creating involvement that makes people want to support us in whatever form: money, time, expertise, materials. By touching people and being open about the work we do, we can take many people and organisations with us in why we do what we do and ask for support. In that sense fundraising is also friend - raising. Many people get a warm feeling of making the world a little better. Giving to a good cause makes sense. We also have something to offer and don't just come and get something. The art of making a match with what the potential giver thinks is important. By bringing together our professionalism and creativity, we try to exchange and create powerful ways to ensure that we have an even more robust foundation of sustainable resources. Topics for your submission could include:
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The call for abstracts is now open!
The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2021 Scroll down to find more information about the guidelines and the criteria Abstract submission guidelines
Abstracts must be clearly written and must not exceed 350 words and are to be presented in English.
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The call for abstracts is now open!
The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2021 Scroll down to find more information about the criteria. Evaluation criteria – for all submissions
Each abstract will be reviewed by several experts (colleagues of other clownsorganisations) and the chair of the respective topic and scored on the base of the following criteria:
Notification to the author about the acceptance/rejection of the abstract submission will be sent out at the latest by May 15, 2021. The authors of all accepted papers are expected to register and participate in the conference (live or online). There is no limit to the number of abstracts that can be submitted by an individual or organisation. The planning committee will strive for diversity of relevant topics and origins. When submitting an abstract as a presenting author, you must agree to be available at any time during the conference days (October 6 – October 8, 2021) to give your presentation live or online. If you will not be available on one of the days, please arrange for a co-author to give the presentation. We will not consider date/time change requests for presentations, unless a presenting author has been inadvertently scheduled to give two presentations in the same time slot. |
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