International Essay Competition
What do I know about Azerbaijan?
Introduction
The Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Romania
has the honor to announce the international essay competition under the theme
of “What Do I know about Azerbaijan?” jointly organized by the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The main aim of the competition is to raise the level of awareness among
Romanian youth about Azerbaijan and provide an opportunity for travelling to
Azerbaijan during the summer of 2015 in order to get more in-depth information
about the country, its culture, history, ethnography, foreign policy and
people.
Guidelines of
competition
·
Romanian youth (pupil, students, young researchers)
between 14-29 ages could participate at the competition;
·
Essays should be
written in English language;
·
Essays should
not exceed the 2500 words limit;
·
10 essays would
be selected as winner and authors of the winning essays will have an
opportunity to travel to Azerbaijan for 7 days during August month of 2015;
·
All expenses
related to travel to Azerbaijan (international round-trip flight, food,
accommodation, internal transportation, access to cultural places, trips to the
regions of Azerbaijan) will be covered by the Azerbaijani side;
·
To the authors
of the winning essays will be presented special gifts by the Azerbaijani
authorities and the essays will be published in a special booklet.
Competition procedures and selection criteria
Required documents for
submission of application are as following:
1.
Essay on the
topic “What do I know about Azerbaijan?” not exceeding 2500 words;
2.
Application
form - could be accessed from the
following link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kpa7hv1s670argu/Application%20form.docx?dl=0 ;
3.
Curriculum Vitae
(CV) of the applicant;
4.
Passport and
national identity card of the applicant.
Essays should be written in
“times new roman” font, size 12 and include the title, author’s name, author’s
mailing address, email address, and phone number on the first page of the
essay.
Essays should have a reference to
the literature used. All applications will be checked for plagiarism. Plagiarized
essays will be disqualified from the competition.
All
submissions will go through an initial screening process by several readers.
Each reader will assign a rating on a scale of 1-10 (10 best, 1 worst), taking
into account the following criteria: relevance to the topic; originality, depth
and persuasiveness of analysis; quality of writing; thoroughness of research
and style, and proper citation of sources. Bearing in mind that most of the
contestants will not be native English speakers, grammar issues of the Essays
written in English language will be accorded less weight. The papers with the
highest average scores will be reviewed by a final panel of judges, who will
agree on the winners.
Documents should be submitted to the azsefroman@azembassy.ro email with the topic of “What do I know about
Azerbaijan?”. Incomplete applications won’t be accepted. The essays should be
sent as a MS Word file document.
Deadline for submission of applications is 30 April
2015 date.
The winners of the
competition will be announced at the end of the June month of 2015.
The trip to Azerbaijan
and rewarding ceremony of the winners will be organized in August month of
2015.
Sample topics
The essays could be
written at any topic concerning Azerbaijan. However, the following topics could
be suggested:
-
Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict: myths and realities;
-
Haydar Aliyev:
national leader of Azerbaijan;
-
History, art and
culture of Azerbaijan;
-
Population,
language, customs and religion of Azerbaijan;
-
Role of
Azerbaijan at system of international relations;
-
Cooperation
between Azerbaijan and Romania: history and perspectives;
-
Oil and gas
strategy of Azerbaijan;
-
Economic
development model of Azerbaijan – comparison with global economies;
-
Khojaly massacre.
For further information
and questions please contact the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in
Romania.
Contact details of the
Embassy:
Address: Grigore
Gafencu 10, Sector 1, 014132, Bucharest, Romania
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