End-of-academic-year Multidisciplinary Conference in Munich June 22, 2013

Munich is the most intriguing conference city with its dual emphasis on modern technology and culture, fusing the two into an unusual alliance. Its unusual blend of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical, and Modern Architecture as backdrops for its research universities and multinational companies results is a lasting perspective for the careful observer.

Although Munich was heavily damaged by allied bombing during World War II, many of its historic buildings have been rebuilt and the city center comes straight out of the late 1800s including its largest church, the Frauenkirche, and the Neues Rathaus, its famous city hall.

The people of Munich do not like their city to be associated only with beer and the Oktoberfest. After all, the Bavarian Kings transformed Munich into a city of arts and science. Its outstanding position among other German cities may have faded a tad due to Berlin becoming the German capital a few years ago. However, Munich still remains Germany's number-one place for art, science and culture.


It is a pleasure and an honor for the International Journal of Arts and Sciences to include this city in its conferences itinerary. Munich is the ideal place to bare one's soul and research and add a unique cultural dimension to one's academic experience.

Our conference has three main aims.

The first aim is to provide opportunities for academics from a range of disciplines and countries to share their research both through the conference podium and our double-blind refereed publications. All our conferences are inter- and multi-disciplinary.

The second aim of the Conference Series is to provide opportunities for academics to receive informal in-depth feedback through discussions, and to enable them to establish contact with professionals in other countries and institutions. The informal setting allows for discussing different points of view. Even in an increasingly networked world of internet and satellite conferences, there is no substitute for personal interaction—what Edward R. Murrow calls "the last three feet of communication." It is individuals, not data streams, who must ultimately build the connections that in turn create lasting international research partnerships.

The third aim of the Conference Series is to introduce academics to educational premises in locations that are suitable for study abroad programs and which may meet their students’ educational needs. IJAS draws its inspiration from the Fulbright Program, an integral part of the United States' foreign educational relations, where face-to-face exchanges have proven to be the single most effective means of engaging international publics while broadening dialogue between academics and institutions.

We invite abstracts, papers, and proposals in any of the following tracks: (i) Social Sciences and Humanities, (ii) Business and Economics, (iii) Teaching and Education, and (iv) Technology and Science.

The accepted submissions will be clustered around their common topics and areas of interest. As is typical of multidisciplinary conferences, the final program - released about three weeks before the conference - will mirror the research agendas of the delegates rather than a pre-conceived list of arbitrary topics. The program will consist of consecutive one-hour sessions running in parallel in several conference rooms, from about 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Each oral presentation will be 15 minutes or less in duration unless a delegate requests otherwise.

It is up to each delegate how much to submit or publish. Some authors may publish only an abstract in the proceedings. Others may prefer to publish a full-length manuscript in the journal.

Delegates may also attend a conference without submitting or publishing any research in their role as audience members.

Authors may deliver their work during the conference either as (i) a regular presentation, (ii) a poster session, (iii) a panel, or (iv) a workshop.

The most important dates to remember are as follows: (i) Submit your abstract online at http://www.research.net/s/Rome2012 until September 19, 2012; (ii) Pay the registration fee by September 27, 2012; (iii) The conference will run from October 29 to November 1, 2012; (iv) Email your formatted manuscript to [email protected] by December 15, 2012; and (iv) The proceedings and journal will be published in 2013.

Within a few days of receiving your online abstract submission, we will notify you of the reviewers' acceptance or rejection, for the conference.

If we inform you that it is an acceptance and you would like to publish your research, follow the model format here and email us your formatted document in Microsoft Word.

Abstracts and summarized articles will be published in the proceedings.

Full length manuscripts may be published in a refereed journal format. The review process for the journal is slower and more demanding in its standards. Although both the proceedings and the journal are refereed, research that meets the refereed standards for the conference may not meet the refereed standards for the journal.

Our articles are accessed through Google Scholar and Proquest. The journal is indexed in (i) WorldCat, (ii) Ulrich's serials directory, and (iii) Cabell's directories of Educational Curriculum & Methods and Educational Psychology and Administration.

There is no page limit on articles. We welcome both short and lengthy submissions. We don't impose a financial penalty on lengthy manuscripts.

Each registered author, irrespective of whether he or she submits a formatted abstract or paper, will receive a Certificate of Participation.

Official Website: http://www.openaccesslibrary.org/munich.html