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THE EMERALD PUBLISHING AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST EMERALD CASE WRITING COMPETITION

Application Deadline: September 30, 2024

LOCATION: Multiple Regions

Emerald Publishing invites authors based at African or Middle Eastern higher education institutions, including Türkiye and Pakistan, to submit business teaching cases focused on emerging markets in their region

The aim of the competition is to encourage and promote the development of high-quality teaching case material relevant to the realities of dynamic and emerging economies in Africa, the Middle East, Türkiye, and Pakistan. At the same time, they also seek to promote the development of case-writing capabilities with those same regions.

ELIGIBILITY:

Have a developing and emerging markets focus from Africa, the Middle East, Türkiye, or Pakistan.

Be written by authors based at higher education institutions in these same countries.

Be based on a real situation in a real company.

Be a teaching case, we cannot accept academic (research) cases.

Not have been published before in its current or substantially similar form or be under consideration for publication in any ISSN/ ISBN-registered publication or with any other case centre.

Meet the standard EMCS author guidelines (more below).

Include a completed and signed consent to publish release form.

Your case will be automatically entered into the peer-review process. Selected cases will be published in the Scopus-ranked EMCS collection (ISSN 2045 0621). By participating in the competition, you are agreeing to publish your case study in EMCS, subject to acceptance for publication after peer review and revisions (if required).

BENEFIT:

The total prize pool is worth $2,000, including $1,000 for the winner and $500 each for the two runners up and and have their case study published globally!

Please note that the prize will only be payable to the winning submissions if those submissions are successfully published. 

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LOCAL LETTERS FOR GLOBAL CHANGE: A PULITZER CENTER WRITING CONTEST

Application Deadline: Friday, November 15, 2024, at 11:59 EST

LOCATION: USA

The 2024 Local Letters for Global Change contest is open!

K-12 students: Make your voice heard this fall by writing a letter to a local elected representative that explains the global issue you want them to prioritize, shows how it connects to your local community, and proposes a solution. Through this contest, students can practice global citizenship, civic action, and persuasive writing, all while exploring the underreported issues that matter to them through Pulitzer Center news stories.

The Pulitzer Center wants to read and share your letters. Tell us and the world, what’s most important to you.

ELIGIBILITY:

We welcome entries from all current K–12 students across the globe. Letters may be written in English and/or Spanish. Letters should address a topic within one of the Pulitzer Center’s five focus issues:

Climate and Environment (including climate change, pollution, extractive industries, and more)

Global Health (which includes health inequities, food security, mental health, water and sanitation, and more)

Human Rights (which include racial justice, gender equality, migration and refugees, Indigenous rights, and more)

Information and Artificial Intelligence (including technology and society, misinformation, and more)

Peace and Conflict

Go to the Suggested Stories tab above and choose a story that gives you new information about an issue that matters to you. (All eligible stories are available at www.pulitzercenter.org/stories.)

BENEFIT:

We will select one first place winner and up to four finalists for each issue category. First place winners will receive:

$300 to support global community engagement in your classroom (prize distributed to your class teacher)

Publication of your letter, photo, and bio on the Pulitzer Center website

Finalists will receive:

$75 to support global community engagement in your classroom (prize distributed to your class teacher)

Publication of your letter, photo, and bio on the Pulitzer Center website

All entrants will be invited to participate in a Pulitzer Center town hall event, held virtually in November, to share their solutions with other students from around the world.

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