European Communication Research
and Education Association

Join ECREA

In order to allow as many scholars as possible to join, ECREA is offering a very flexible and affordable membership fee structure for individuals and institutions, with reduced fees for young scholars, for retired scholars, for soft-currency countries and for large institutions.

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

ECREA has three categories of membership:

Individual members

All persons who are active in the field of communication research or education. This also applies to persons living outside Europe who are conducting research into communication in Europe.

Each individual member carries one vote at the General Assembly.

The standard individual membership fee covers one person, who qualifies for ECREA's membership benefits.

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Institutional members

Legal bodies such as universities with relevant departments, legal bodies with relevant policy departments and legal bodies with professional research from all parts of Europe, which are concerned with media and communications research or dedicate all or part of their activity to such research.

Institutional membership brings five votes at the General Assembly.

The standard institutional membership fee covers institutional coordinator and ten individuals from that institution as well as unlimited number of institution's PhD students.

In cases where institutions wish to have more than ten regular members special fee applies for each additional member.

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Associate institutional members

ECREA may confer the status of associate institutional member upon organizations, which are legally established in their country of origin and whose aims are connected with those ECREA. This category for instance includes national communication studies organisations.

An Associate member does not vote at the General Assembly.

Associate institutional membership does not involve a fee.

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For the overview of membership fees click here.

For the overview of membership fees valid from 2025 click here.

For the list of "Soft Currency" countries applicable for discounted fees click here.

For the list of "Low Income Countries" and Middle Income Countries" applicable for discounted fees (starting from 2025) click here.

For our cancellation and refunds policy click here.

To download the promotional leaflet click here.