Dear Sir, Madam,

As hosting team of the XVI Biennial IASC Conference ‘Practicing the Commons: Self-Governance, Cooperation, and Institutional Change’, to be held in Utrecht, July 10-14, 2017, we are happy to inform you that we have received over 1,050 abstracts for papers, panels, and posters for this conference.

With the abstracts for Practitioners’ Labs yet to come, we expect the IASC2017 Conference to become the largest international event on commons ever! All abstracts will now be peer-reviewed by our Scientific Review Committee of over 50 international experts; the results are to be expected in the course of December 2016-January 2017.

With this e-mail e would like to inform you about the Call for (Contributions to) Practitioners’ Labs (deadline: March 31, 2017), but also about the current results call and developments regarding the 2017 Conference.

Call for Practitioners’ Labs

We have just issued a Call for (Contributions to) Practitioners' Labs. As we intend to bring together not only scholars working on commons, but also practitioners involved in commons or organizations dealing with commons from around the globe, several Practitioners’ Labs will be organized. At these labs, practitioners have the opportunity to put forward their experience on commons-issues and at the same time discuss the challenges and questions they encounter with academics working on these issues, as well as with fellow-practitioners and policy makers.

Proposals can be submitted for

1. full panels of approx. 6 participants,
2. contributions to the panels mentioned as in 1.
3. contributions to one of the already prepared Sponsored Practitioners’ Labs (see http://www.iasc2017.org/practitioners-labs/)
4. individual proposals of practitioners who would like to present their organisation at one of the Practitioners’ Labs

For all info and the full text of the call, visit http://www.iasc2017.org/calls/call-for-practitioners-labs/. You will find the call also as attachment to this e-mail.

We would kindly like to ask you to distribute this call among your contacts. Please do notice that this call is also open to contributions by academics, but they should be aware that the Practitioners’ Labs are explicitly designed for exchanging experience on practical issues and not for the presentation of academic papers.

Become an IASC-member now and benefit from reduced fees at IASC2017

As you are probably aware of, the IASC is a non-profit, member-driven association that offers lots of benefits to its members. If you are not yet a member, now is the time to become a member: you will be able to benefit from a reduced membership fee for IASC2017, but in the meanwhile you will also have full access to IASC’s digital resources such as the Digital Library on the Commons, reduced publication fees for accepted articles in the International Journal of the Commons and the opportunity to use IASC’s social media and newsletters to draw attention to your own projects, publications, events, etc..

You can find the overview of our income-dependent membership fees and subscribe as member via https://membership-iasc.commons.org.

Help us promote the IASC2017 Conference!

The IASC2017 promises to be one of the largest conferences on commons and common-pool resources ever! Help us make this conference to a success by following our social media and using #iasc2017 as topic. If you see an opportunity to distribute promotional materials like posters or flyers on the conference, or on IASC in general, contact the IASC via iasc@iasc-commons.org.

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Questions?

For all questions about the conference, please contact us at iasc2017@iasc2017.org.

For questions regarding the IASC, please contact René van Weeren, Executive Director, at iasc@iasc-commons.org.

Kind regards,

The Research Team ‘Institutions for Collective Action’

In cooperation with IASC2017 Conference Team

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