Chance to be part of the 2021 Western Balkans Youth Conference

Balkan Studies Center invites senior undergraduate and graduate students in humanities, social sciences, and technical sciences to be part of the 2021 Western Balkans Youth Conference (WBYC'21) in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina. 

This conference aims to create a platform for the youth, students, and recent graduates in arts, humanities, social sciences, and technical sciences to assess, explore and promote the EU values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law, and human rights. The future of the young people in the Western Balkans is certainly in the EU; therefore they will be enabled in this conference to contribute towards the promotion of peace, individual well-being, freedom, justice, social inclusion, sustainable development, scientific and technological progress, economic cooperation and trade, and the respect for the EU common values and principles. The presenters at the conference are encouraged to explore the interdisciplinary subjects to assess and evaluate the prospects and challenges of the Western Balkans on the road to the EU.

The conference seeks youth participants from all over the world to exchange their ideas and experience in an intellectually-stimulating academic environment, at the International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina. The fundamental objective of the conference is to provide students with an educational experience that prepares them for their future.

Eligibility:

The program is designed for senior undergraduate and graduate students in humanities, social sciences, and technical sciences as well as fresh graduates who are already working in the public and private sectors and who are interested in developing their knowledge and expertise in the topics offered by the WBYC’21.

Paper submission guidelines:

• Authors are requested to follow the set style and format.
• Papers must be in the official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina or English and should not exceed 10,000 words.
• Papers must include, title, author name, affiliation or institution, abstract, keywords, and body of the paper.
• Papers must display original thought and ideas. They must make concrete references to existing scholarship in the related area.
• Citations and references should be made in accordance with the APA Style Manual.
• Papers must be double-spaced (with single-spacing used for block quotations). Margins should be 2.5 cm. or 1 inch from all sides.
• The first line of each paragraph should be indented. Block quotations should be indented 2.5 cm. or 1 inch from both the right and left margins.
• The paper must be submitted in Microsoft Word document file format.
• The text of the paper should be double-spaced with Times New Roman 12-point font; all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• Papers will be accepted only if they meet the requirements.

The Scientific Committee will assess the quality of papers and determine whether they will be suitable for publishing. Papers that have been previously presented or published will not be accepted. All submitted papers will undergo plagiarism checking by Turnitin software. Only the authors who submit their full papers within the specified deadline will be allowed to present at the Conference.

Presentation Guidelines

• The presentations can be presented in the official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina or the English language.
• Each paper will be allotted 30 minutes, 20 minutes for presentation, and 10 minutes for discussion. Presenters may prepare oral presentations or poster presentations.
• Due to time constraints, presenters will not be permitted to exceed the time allotted for their presentation and for the question and answer session.

Benefits:

Certificate of attendance from the organizers, all expenditures are covered by organizers, including the expenditures of publication.

About Balkan Studies Center:

Balkan Studies Center was established on 5 December 2014 within the International University of Sarajevo (IUS), in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina. There is a dire need in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the establishment of a center specializing in various aspects of the Balkans. The country needs experts in the fields of politics, international relations, economics, history, and culture of the Balkans. While in many leading countries of the world there are many experts specialized in the Balkans, the Balkan countries themselves either often lack such expertise at an international level or do not or cannot sufficiently benefit from the existing experts in the region. Therefore, it is essential to have such a center in order to bring together the experience and expertise of scholars from the Balkans, orchestrate them for policy recommendations as well as training posterity.

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