Dear Colleagues,

due to coronavirus disease, we were forced to change the form of the conference and move it into virtual space. We decided to organise the distant conference within the dates previously set for the stationary event (June 17-19, 2020). We are planning to use the Microsoft Teams application for oral presentations and discussion. It requires the participants are equipped with the hardware which allows at least voice connection (for example notebook with built-in microphone; video connections are also welcome) to be able to actively participate in the event.

We plan about 20 minutes for each contribution – 12 minutes for shared presentation with voice comments + possibly a view from the presenter's camera and 8 minutes for discussion.

We know that this form of conference is not perfect but taking into account the dynamically changing situation it seems that it is better to meet in such limited opportunities than not to meet at all. We believe that at the next conference we will make up for this lack of personal contacts.

Since the costs of virtual event are much lower than stationary one, we have reduced the conference fee to 50 euros, which will be mainly allocated to cover publishing costs.

Scientific Committee

DidSci 2018 Scientific Committee (to be extended)

Members (in alphabetical order)

Agnaldo Arroio – Brazil
Martin Bilek – the Czech Republic
Paweł Cieśla – Poland
Hana Čtrnáctová – the Czech Republic
Pavel Doulik – the Czech Republic
Marko Giliberti – Italy
Hanna Gulińska – Poland
Lubomir Held – Slovakia
Gyorgy Juhasz – Slovakia
Grzegorz Karwasz – Poland
Jarmila Kmetova – Slovakia
Vincentas Lamanauskas - Lithuania
Marisa Michelini – Italy
Małgorzata Nodzyńska – Poland
Wiktor Osuch – Poland
Katarzyna Potyrała – Poland
Miroslav Prokša – Slovakia
Andrej Šorgo – Slovenia
Alicja Walosik – Poland

Coronavirus disease and the DidSci2020 conference