History of the International conference of Motivation and the SIG Motivation and Emotion
(written by Marold Wosnitza)
The 1st Workshop on Achievement and Task Motivation (WATM) was organized in 1985 in the Netherlands, and it was followed by three further workshops in Germany and Norway. Around the year 1995 the Special Interest Group (SIG) Motivation and Emotion of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) decided to organize a conference in the year in between the regular EARLI conferences. Since one of the two coordinators of the SIG at that time had taken the responsibility to organize the next WATM as well, the initiative was taken to combine the organization of both conferences in order to organize an International Conference on Motivation. The first one took place in 1996 in Landau. From then on, the SIG has taken the initiative and responsibility to organize the ICM/WATM every second year, also with support of EARLI. One of the consequences of this EARLI responsibility is that the SIG coordinators are always in the scientific committee of the conference. After this first combined conference in Landau, WATM/ICM expanded to further parts of Europe. Since the topics dealt with were expanded as well, and started to cover more than achievement and learning, but also broader motivational concepts such as autonomy, self-regulation, time perspective, or even cyberspace, in 2002 at the 8th conference in Moscow the name WATM was definitely changed to ICM.
Conferences
1st WATM 1985
in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Organized by E. E. J. De Bruyn, J. H. L. van den Bercken, and Th. C. M. Bergen.
2nd WATM 1987
in Schloss Ringberg, Germany.
Organized by H. Heckhausen and F. Halisch.
3rd WATM 1989
in Bochum, Germany in memory of Prof. Heinz Heckhausen.
Organized by K. Schneider, C. Trudewind, and L. Unzer.
4th WATM 1993
in Oslo, Norway.
Organized by T. Gjesme, R. Nygard, and P. Rand.
5th WATM – International conference on Motivation 1996
in Landau, Germany.
Organized by P. Nenniger in collaboration with EARLI-SIG: Motivation and Emotion.
6th WATM International conference on Motivation 1998
in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Organized by A. Efklides, P. Nenniger, T. Peetsma, and I. Pychova in collaboration with EARLI-SIG: Motivation and Emotion.
7th WATM International conference on Motivation 2000
in Leuven, Belgium.
Organized by W. Lens in collaboration with EARLI-SIG: Motivation and Emotion.
8th WATM International conference on Motivation 2002
in Moscow, Russia.
Organized by D. Leontiev in collaboration with EARLI-SIG: Motivation and Emotion.
9th International conference on Motivation 2004
in Lisbon, Portugal,
Organized by Francisco Peixoto in collaboration with EARLI-SIG: Motivation and Emotion.
10th International conference on Motivation 2006
in Landau, Germany
Organized by Marold Wosnitza & Peter Nenniger in collaboration with EARLI-SIG: Motivation and Emotion.
11th International conference on Motivation 2008
in Turku, Finland
Organized by Marja Vauras in collaboration with EARLI-SIG: Motivation and Emotion.
12th International conference on Motivation 2010
in Porto, Portugal
Organized by Marina Lemos in collaboration with EARLI-SIG: Motivation and Emotion.
13th International conference on Motivation 2012
in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Organized by Thomas Martens in collaboration with EARLI-SIG: Motivation and Emotion.
14th International conference on Motivation 2014
in Helsinki, Finland
Organized by Kirsti Lonka in collaboration with EARLI-SIG: Motivation and Emotion.
15th International conference on Motivation 2016
in Thessaloniki, Greece
Organized by Eleftheria Gonida in collaboration with EARLI-SIG: Motivation and Emotion.
16th International conference on Motivation 2018
in Aarhus, Denmark
Organized by Niels Bonderup Dohn in collaboration with EARLI-SIG: Motivation and Emotion.
17th International conference on Motivation 2020 – postponed till 2022
in Dresden, Germany
Organized by Susanne Narciss in collaboration with EARLI SIG8 Motivation and Emotion and SIG16 metacognition and self-regulated learning.
18th International conference on Motivation 2024
in Bern, Switzerland – To be held the 28th-30th of August 2024
Organized by Tina Hascher and Julia Mori in collaboration with EARLI-SIG: Motivation and Emotion.
Coordinators
| 1987-1989 | Monique Boekaerts and Ralf Schwarzer |
| 1989-1991 | Monique Boekaerts and Christine Schwarzer |
| 1991-1993 | Marja Vauras and Nitha Saysers |
| 1993-1995 | Marja Vauras and Willy Lens |
| 1995-1997 | Thea Peetsma and Peter Nenniger |
| 1997-1999 | Peter Nenniger and Sanna Järvelä |
| 1999-2001 | Sanna Järvelä and Anastasia Efklides |
| 2001-2003 | Anastasia Efklides and Simone Volet |
| 2003-2005 | Simone Volet and Marold Wosnitza |
| 2005-2007 | Marold Wosnitza and Stuart Karabenick |
| 2007-2009 | Stuart Karabenick and Alexander Minnaert |
| 2009-2011 | Alexander Minnaert and Jenefer Husman |
| 2011-2013 | Jennifer Husman and Thomas Martens |
| 2013-2015 | Thomas Martens and Marina Lemos |
| 2015-2017 | Marina Lemos and Hanke Korpershoek | Kerstin Helker |
| 2017-2019 | Hanke Korpershoek and Fani Lauermann | Kristina Loderer |
| 2019-2021 | Fani Lauermann and Hanna Järvanoja | Martin Daumiller and Julia Morinaj |
| 2021-2023 | Hanna Järvanoja and Hanna Gaspard | Julia Morinaj and Juliane Schlesier |
| 2023-now | Hanna Gaspard and Martin Daumiller | Juliane Schlesier and Jonne Bloem |