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THE 2025 ITET GEM ESSAY COMPETITION

Application Deadline: 19th May, 11:59 PM (West African Time/Nigerian Time).

LOCATION: Nigeria

The ITET Gem Foundation is pleased to announce the 2025 edition of our Essay Competition for senior secondary school students in Nigeria. This year’s essay competition invites young Nigerians to propose a transformative policy to unlock youth potential and drive national progress.

The topic of this year’s ITET Gem essay competition is “A Youth-Focused Policy for Maximizing
Nigeria’s Potential.”

ELIGIBILITY:

To be eligible to submit an essay entry for the ITET Gem Essay Competition, you must be:

Be Nigerian and reside in Nigeria.

Be below 18 years of age at the time of submission.

Be reachable by phone (either their own or a guardian’s number). If a student does not have a phone, the alternate contact will be utilized.

Have access to an email account for submission.

Be a registered SS1, SS2, or SS3 students in a recognized secondary school are also eligible to apply.

Submit a 500-750 word essay on the topic “A Youth-Focused Policy for Maximizing Nigeria’s Potential.”

Email your essay to admin@itetgemfoundation.com on or before 19th May, 11:59 PM (West African Time/Nigerian Time).

Essay must be in Microsoft word format. Entries not in this format and submitted through other channels will not be accepted.

BENEFIT:

Prizes and Rewards for Winners of the ITET Gem Essay Competition

First prize: N200,000.00

Second prize: N150,000.00

Third prize: N100,000.00

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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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