Calls

EAPP-Sponsored Symposium at the ECPA 2025 Conference

Deadline: March 26, 2025

We are inviting EAPP members to submit a proposal for one EAPP-sponsored symposium to
be presented at the 16th European Conference on Psychological Assessment (ECPA 2025),
which will take place in Barcelona, Spain from July 22-25, 2025. The selected symposium will be sponsored with a maximum of 2,000 € for reimbursement of expenses related to travel and ac-
commodation (i.e., expenses incurred by the presenters that cannot be subsidized by another sources funding). Registration waivers may be available from ECPA provided that registration
costs cannot be covered by other or local funds.

Participant Requirements:
The symposium’s chair(s) and at least 50% of the first-author presenters (speakers) should be
EAPP members in good standing before submitting the symposium proposal to EAPP.
Members who benefited from other initiatives are reminded that, because of tax-related reasons,
no single EAPP member can receive more than 2,100 € per year from the EAPP. If you have
already received money from other EAPP’s initiative, or plan to receive sums from EAPP in 2025
exceeding this threshold, please get in touch with the EAPP treasurer (treasurer@eapp.org) and
secretary (secretary@eapp.org).

Submission Requirements:

Symposia have a total duration of 90 minutes and may include four to five scientific oral present-
tations (each lasting 15–20 minutes) on a common theme. The symposium chair is responsible for submitting the proposal and moderating the session. The chair may also contribute an oral presentation within the symposium. Further information is available here. Please download the mandatory Proposal form provided here and upload it as a PDF file to our EAPP Dropbox here.

Call: EAPP-Sponsored Symposium at the 2025 ARP Biennial Conference

Deadline: March 3, 2025

We are inviting EAPP members to submit a proposal for one EAPP-sponsored symposium to be presented at the next Association for Research in Personality (ARP) conference, which will take place in Evanston, IL, USA from June 26-28, 2025. The selected symposium will be spon-sored with a maximum of 2,000 € for reimbursement of expenses related to travel and accommo-dation (i.e., expenses incurred by the presenters that cannot be subsidized by another sources funding). Registration waivers may be available from ARP provided that registration costs cannot be covered by other or local funds.

Participant Requirements:

The symposium’s chair(s) and at least 50% of the first-author presenters (speakers) should be EAPP members in good standing before submitting the symposium proposal to EAPP.
Members who benefited from other initiatives are reminded that, because of tax-related reasons, no single EAPP member can receive more than 2,100 € per year from the EAPP. If you have already received money from other EAPP’s initiative, or plan to receive sums from EAPP in 2025 exceeding this threshold, please get in touch with the EAPP treasurer (treasurer@eapp.org) and secretary (secretary@eapp.org).

Submission Requirements:

Symposia are organized sessions around particular themes, topics, or methods related to per-sonality psychology. They should be scheduled for 75 minutes, with 1 chair and 3-5 speakers (including, if desired, a discussant). The format is flexible, but the proposal needs to indicate the number of speakers as well as speaking and discussion times. Further information on submission guidelines is available at https://www.personality-arp.org/wp-content/uploads/ARP-2025-Submis-sion-Guidelines-3.pdf.
Please download the mandatory Proposal form provided here and upload it as a PDF file to our EAPP Dropbox at the link here.

2025 EAPP Focus Meetings

Call for Proposals

The European Association for Personality Psychology (EAPP) is inviting researchers to submit proposals to organize a focus meeting in 2025. The Executive Committee (EC) of the EAPP has decided to rename expert meetings into focus meetings to better align with the purpose of the meetings. EAPP has a long tradition of sponsoring meetings on a diverse range of topics in personality science (please see https://eapp.org/meetings/focus-meetings/ for more information about previous expert meetings).

Scope

The purposes of the EAPP Focus Meetings are to:

contribute to the critical assessment of knowledge and new developments in personality psychology
identify promising new directions for future research and/or teaching of personality psychology
provide a forum for intensive discussion on cutting-edge issues in personality psychology and related disciplines between participants from different backgrounds and in different career stages
promote the exchange of ideas and research cooperation between personality psychologists and researchers from related disciplines or scientific associations.

The EAPP will financially support up to two meetings every two years (each meeting with up to 10.000 €), although the EC may exercise discretion on this rule. Detailed information regarding the scope of support, the application process, as well as responsibilities of successful applicants can be found at the following link: EAPP Focus Meeting (2025). In case of any other questions, please contact the EAPP Secretary at secretary@eapp.org.

Deadline for proposing focus meetings is November 30, 2024 (23:59 CET). The prospective organizer(s) submitting the proposal will be informed about the decision at the beginning of 2025.

Open Call For Nominations

For 2025 EAPP Awards

The Executive Committee of the European Association for Personality Psychology (EAPP) is looking for nominations for the 2025 EAPP awards:

The European Personality Psychology Dissertation Awards
The European Personality Psychology Early Achievement Award
The European Personality Psychology Mid-Career Award
The European Personality Psychology Life-Time Achievement Award
The European Personality Psychology Leadership and Service Award

All awards will be presented at an award ceremony during the 2025 EAPP virtual event. The winners of all awards receive a plaque and a personal prize of 1,000 €, and they will be invited to give a talk at the 2025 EAPP virtual Award Recognition event (the exact date and time will be announced next year). The Dissertation, Early Achievement, and Mid-Career Awards winners will receive a two-year free membership to the EAPP. The winners of the Life-Time Achievement Award and the Leadership and Service Award will receive an honorary lifetime membership to the EAPP. No current member of the EAPP Executive Committee can apply or be nominated for any of the awards.

The nomination deadline for all awards is November 30, 2024, at 23:59 CET. Details on each award and nomination procedure for each award are outlined at the following links:

2024 EAPP Mentoring Program

The EAPP Mentoring Program is starting again! This is the fifth round of the mentoring program, which pairs young scholars with more senior researchers. The aim is to offer an opportunity for early career researchers to discuss their work with an experienced researcher in the field who is not their advisor, and to ask questions, exchange ideas, and broaden their scientific network. The mentee-mentor pair can discuss specific research projects or discourse about broader topics related to research (e.g., grant writing, career planning, time management, etc.).

The EAPP Mentoring Program has been very well received in the past by both mentees and mentors, with the majority of participants indicating high satisfaction in the evaluation of the program.

To start off this year’s mentoring program, we are now looking for mentors and mentees who want to be part of this exciting program!

Mentors and mentees are expected to meet at least once during the summer either in person virtually via Zoom, Skype, or any other online platform or location of their choosing. We ask mentors to stay in touch with their mentees in the subsequent months by checking in via email and following up on the mentee’s progress. The beauty of this year`s version is that mentees and mentors even have the chance to initially meet up in person during the ECP21 in Berlin (in case both are attending, which is not mandatory).

Are you an experienced scholar with a passion for sharing your expertise and empowering the next generation of researchers? If you completed your PhD at least five years ago and hold a tenure-track professorship, we invite you to join us as a mentor. Your guidance can shape the scientific development of a mentee. Sign up now and become a mentor here: https://forms.gle/PnXNvREQw28sfTWd8

Are you an early career scholar (PhD student or up to five years after PhD) interested in meeting and discussing with a more senior scholar from our field? If yes, please sign up here: https://forms.gle/AJyXimR81pJKdUtGA

Please sign up for the mentoring program until June 21, 2024.

After the sign-up is completed, the mentees will be asked to indicate their preferred mentors. While we cannot guarantee a perfect fit, we do our best to facilitate “matches” with good potential for compatibility.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at earlycareer@eapp.org.