ASEAN Essay
Contest
The Embassies of
the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in
Buenos Aires (the Kingdom of Thailand, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,
Malaysia, the Republic of Indonesia and the Republic of the Philippines), with
the collaboration from the partner universities and other academic institutions
in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay announce the call for undergraduate students
and graduate scholars to participate in the Second Edition of the ASEAN Essay Contest.
Objectives &
Topics
The Contest aims fundamentally to
encourage the development of academic analysis and researches to deepen the
knowledge about the countries of ASEAN as a bloc.
The subjects or topics of the essay
shall focus on ASEAN as a bloc, its political, religious, socio-cultural,
economic and historical dynamics and its developments in the past fifty years,
and / or its relations with the Republic of Argentina, the Oriental Republic of
Uruguay, Republic of Paraguay, and Mercosur, or other Latin-American regional organizations.
Suggested subjects or topics are
as follow:
• ASEAN: origins and historical
development, processes, dynamics and types of integration, international
political and economic positioning, key opportunities and challenges, AEC 2015
• Relations with other international
organizations and interactions in regional forums (ASEAN +1, +3, +5, APEC, WTO,
UN, among others)
• Links between ASEAN and Argentina,
Uruguay, Paraguay, Mercosur, CLACS, or other Latin-American regional organizations
The above suggested subjects or topics are orientative. While undergraduate students may submit an essay with any other subject or topic related to ASEAN, graduate scholars must submit an essay with analytical considerations/prospects or predictive thesis.
Participants
Will be eligible to participate
and submit their essays citizens of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, or
foreigners with a valid residence permit staying temporally in them, who are undergraduate
students and graduate scholars from any public and private universities in the
mentioned countries.
Guidelines for
Submission
The guidelines detailed below are
absolutely strict and those essays that do not conform to them will be disqualified.
• The essay must
be unpublished and original, having approximately a minimum length of 10 pages
and a maximum length of 15 pages, numbered consecutively (excluding title page,
footnotes and bibliography) and written in Times New Roman font, size 12 and
1.5 line space, in PDF format, using A4 paper size (21 cm x 29.7 cm). It must
be submitted as a monograph, divided into a front page showing the title, an
introduction, a body and a conclusion (besides the bibliography, according to
APA referencing system). The essay can be written in Spanish or English.
• The essay must
be written by a single author, signed with a pseudonym that does not result in
inducing the identity of the author. There shall be no type of sign that may
identify the author. The option of "author" among the properties of
the document of the word processor must be empty. The file with the essay must
be named "ASEAN Essay Contest – essay title - chosen pseudonym". The
jury will know the name of the author once the winner essays have been
selected, for which the file that accompanied the essay will be opened. It is
possible to submit more than one essay per author.
• The essay must
be sent only by email. The file with the essay must be accompanied with two
other separated files identified with the pseudonym, an executive summary of
the content of the essay exclusively in English of no more than 300 (three
hundred) words in PDF format, named "ASEAN Essay Contest – summary -
chosen pseudonym", and a resume of the basic personal information of the
author of the essay (first name and surname, identify document, home address,
phone number, email address, graduate or student status, university affiliation)
, named "ASEAN Essay Contest - personal information - chosen
pseudonym", with a copy of personal ID / Passport with valid residence
permit and university student ID, certificate letter, diploma or other equivalent
official academic document.
• All the files
must be sent to the email address concursoensayosansea@gmail.com,
with the subject “ASEAN Essay Contest”. They must be submitted to the 27th day
of the month of June 2014 before 18hrs, as previously indicated. No essays will
be accepted after the said date.
Disqualification
The partial or total failure to
comply with the previously detailed guidelines entails the automatic
disqualification from the Contest.
Responsibility
Participation in the Contest
implies acceptance of these Rules in all its terms. The organizers reserve the
right to amend without notice the terms of these Rules.
The winning essays will be
intellectual property of their respective owners. The author assumes sole
responsibility for the claims of any nature that may make third parties
regarding the originality or for any other reason on the essay presented. The
organizers reserve the right to publish the essays submitted by the
participants.
Evaluation
The essays will be evaluated by a
jury integrated by Dra. Florencia Rubiolo, Mg. Matias Battaglia, and Lic.
Ezequiel Ramoneda, scholars members of renowned universities, with
specializations which fits the subject or topic of the Contest, together with
diplomatic representatives of the Embassies of the member countries of ASEAN in
Buenos Aires. The decision of the jury will be final.
The jury will choose two winners
(first and second place) for each category of undergraduate students and
graduate scholars.
After the evaluation stage, the
organizers will announce the results on the 25th day of the month of July 2014,
as well as inform about the award ceremony. The organizers will make personal
communications only to the winners.
Transportation
The organizing embassies, as well
as all the partner universities and
other academic institutions are not responsible to provide any type of
transportation assistance for the winners to the location hosting the award
ceremony. The transportation costs shall be covered only by the winners.
In case that a winner cannot be present at the award ceremony, the prize will be transferred or hand-delivered.
Awards
For the winning essays the
following awards are established in U.S. dollars or in the equivalent national currency
of respective participating countries, according to the official rate of the
day of announcement of the results:
Awards for essays for graduate
scholars
1º place - prize: U$350 (three hundred fifty
U.S. dollars)
2º place - prize: U$300 (three hundred U.S. dollars)
2º place - prize: U$300 (three hundred U.S. dollars)
Awards for essays for undergraduate
students
1º place - prize: U$250 (two hundred fifty
U.S. dollars)
2º place - prize: U$200 (two hundred U.S. dollars)
2º place - prize: U$200 (two hundred U.S. dollars)
Organizers
The Embassies of the member countries of
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Buenos Aires: The Kingdom
of Thailand, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Malaysia, the Republic of
Indonesia and the Republic of the Philippines
Partners
Salvador University, National University
of La Plata, Catholic University of Córdoba, 21st Century University, Catholic
University of Salta, National University of Comahue, Catholic University of
Uruguay, National University of Rosario, Interamerican Open University
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