Abstract
Welcome to EATAW 2021Two years have gone by, and it is time for us to meet again.Because the EATAW conference alternates with the conference of the European Writing Centers Association (EWCA), our plan had been to build on EWCA's theme of "empowerment" in writing centers planned for the meeting in Graz in 2020.However, the covid-19 pandemic hit and EWCA could not take place.A year later, it was far from clear whether EATAW could take place, or in which form.We debated this a great deal, asked you all in a survey and then decided to go online, crossing our fingers that enough people would register.And here we are, ready to see you virtually on July 7 and 8, 2021 and still connect to EWCA intentions with our theme "The residence of writing and writing support."If you are wondering about the connection of this theme to empowerment, we were thinking that the various forms and approaches in writing support and writing centers depend on where the support comes from and who provides it.Even though EWCA caters to writing center practitioners and EATAW to teachers, we all deserve to pause and revisit the foundations.More specifically, we should ask seemingly simple questions, some of which have been here for decades but may still be unanswered in certain contexts and/or in contexts that keep changing, such as the following: