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1. Firstly, login using either the login button located top right of the page, or by clicking on the ‘MyECPR’ menu item on the top of the page along the menu and then ‘My Profile’ and then typing in your email address followed by your password in the relevant text boxes.
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1. Should you have forgotten your password and wish to reset it, click on the ‘Login’ button top right of the page, or click on ‘MyECPR’ and then either ‘MyECPR home’ or ‘My Profile’.
2. Click on the ‘Forgotten Password’ link below the login text boxes.
3. Type in the Email address registered to your account and click the ‘Submit’ button.
4. You will receive an Email within a few minutes detailing the email address of your account and your password; use this information to login to your account.
5. Once you have logged in, remember to change your password to something more memorable and easier to type.

Be careful typing the password that was sent to you, it is a randomly generated amount of characters and symbols, both upper and lower case. Remember that passwords are case sensitive!

1. Login to your account by either clicking the login button top right or by clicking the ‘MyECPR’ menu item on the top of the page followed by the ‘My Profile’ page and then typing in your Email address followed by your password in the relevant text boxes.
2. Once you are logged in, click on the ‘My Profile’ area under ‘MyECPR’ if you are not already there.
3. Under the ‘Profile’ tab find the ‘institution’ section and either scroll through the dropdown box for your new institution, or search by typing in the drop down box.
4. Once you have selected the correct institution, click the ‘Save’ button located at the bottom of the page.

1. Login to your account by either clicking the login button top right or by clicking the ‘MyECPR’ menu item on the top of the page followed by the ‘My Profile’ page and then typing in your Email address followed by your password in the relevant text boxes.
2. Once you are logged in, click on the ‘My Profile’ area under ‘MyECPR’ if you are not already there.
3. On the profile tab type in your new or corrected email address and click the ‘Save’ button at the bottom of the page.

Remember that changing your email address will change your login address too!

1. Login to your account by either clicking the login button top right or by clicking the ‘MyECPR’ menu item on the top of the page followed by the ‘My Profile’ page and then typing in your Email address followed by your password in the relevant text boxes.
2. Once you are logged in, click on the ‘My Profile’ area under ‘MyECPR’ if you are not already there.
3. Once there click on the ‘subscriptions’ tab and then ‘unsubscribe’ next to the relevant item you wish to unsubscribe from.

1. Login to your account by either clicking the login button top right or by clicking the ‘MyECPR’ menu item on the top of the page followed by the ‘My Profile’ page and then typing in your Email address followed by your password in the relevant text boxes.
2. Once you are logged in, click on the ‘My Profile’ area under ‘MyECPR’ if you are not already there.
3. Click on ‘institution members’. Here you can see the finance contact and the official representative.

My Institution details are wrong, how do I get them changed?

1. You need to contact your official representative to make the changes to the institution. Only the official representative can make changes to the institution.
2. If you are the official representative, you can change the information by clicking the ‘Institution Profile’ tab and making the changes before clicking ‘Save’.

Please contact support@ecpr.eu to have your account marked for deletion. Please email with the reason you wish to delete the account and make sure the email is from the address registered to the account.

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A core mission of the ECPR is to support the development of the discipline by making it easier for political scientists throughout Europe to engage in co-operative advanced research, training and research-led teaching. Among the instruments to advance this goal are Standing Groups, which are integral parts of the ECPR. Standing Groups engage in activities such as organising conferences and summer schools, establishing awards and publishing newsletters and journals. Standing Groups organise significant sub disciplines or broad research themes over a longer time period; they have a sizeable Standing Group / Research Network membership base, and they offer a wide range of activities.

Research Networks are more specialised than Standing Groups, and/or have fewer members, and/or are more limited in terms of the range of activities, and/or of a temporary nature, for example to test the viability of a group before applying for Standing Group status.

There are two places you may join a Standing Group / Research Network. Either on the list of current standing groups page. You may join multiple groups without leaving this page or on the details page for a particular Standing Group.

There are three places you may leave a Standing Group / Research Network: On the list of current standing groups page (You may leave multiple groups without leaving this page). On the details page for a particular Standing Group. On the MyGroups page (You may leave multiple groups without leaving this page).

At this time there is no fee to join a Standing Group or Research Network.

There is no limit to the amount of groups you may join.

You are currently not affiliated with an ECPR member institution; therefore the Convenor of the group needs to approve the Standing Group / Research Network membership request. If you feel this is an error, please contact ECPR Central Services.

Yes. Your Standing Group / Research Network membership will be pending the approval of that Standing Group / Research Network’s convenor, no matter how many times you leave and join.

Standing Group / Research Network membership to ECPR Standing Groups and Research Networks is annual and based on the calendar year, so your current Standing Group / Research Network membership will run until 31 December at which point you will be invited to renew it. This is to ensure that the Standing Group / Research Network membership for each Standing Group and Research Network stays current and up-to-date.

Standing Group / Research Network membership runs until 31 December every calendar year; you will be able to renew your Standing Group / Research Network membership for the following year from 1 December.If you are from a non-member institution you must renew your Standing Group / Research Network membership by mid-January for it to be done so automatically, outside of this window it will need to be approved by the Convenor again.

If you are affiliated to an ECPR member institution, you may join the Standing Group / Research Network again at any time instantly. However, if you are not affiliated to an ECPR member institution, the Convenor will need to approve your Standing Group / Research Network membership again.

By visiting the My Groups page in MyECPR.

If you are just renewing your Standing Group / Research Network membership without leaving the Standing Group / Research Network, or letting your Standing Group / Research Network membership lapse (see above) then no. If you have left the Standing Group / Research Network then you will be treated as a new application and will require approval from the Convenor.

No. You may only vote in elections run by Standing Groups / Research Networks you are a current member of.

No. While your Standing Group / Research Network membership is pending, you may not vote in an election for that Standing Group / Research Network.