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REEDES prize for Young Researchers

The Spanish Network of Development Studies (REEDES) announces the Second REEDES prize for Young Researchers in order to promote and spread the research in Development Studies. The REEDES prize will be regulated by the following standards:

  1. REEDES will award a first prize and an accesit. These awards will be chosen between all papers which were sent to the 2nd International Congress of Development Studies.
  2. The first prize is worth 700€ and the accesit 300€. Both papers will be recognized by a diploma issued by REEDES and they will be published in the Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies.
  3. The deadline will be the same that it was established to submit papers to the 2nd International Congress of Development Studies (no later than the 23rd of March 2014). It is necessary that the authors express their wish to participate in this prize. They will need to indicate in the first page of their papers that they are “candidates for the REEDES prize for Young Researchers”.
  4. The authors, who want to participate, have to fulfill the following rules:
    1. They have to send the paper according to the standards of edition of the 2nd International Congress of Development Studies.
    2. Positive evaluation of the Scientific Committee of the 2nd International Congress of Development Studies.
    3. Registration of the author or authors in the 2nd International Congress of Development Studies.
    4. Presentation of the paper in the corresponding session of the 2nd International Congress of Development Studies.
    5. e. Being under 35 years old in June 16th 2014 (in case of multiple authorship, all of the authors have to satisfy this condition).
  5. The papers will be evaluated in accordance with the following evaluation process:
    1. The coordinators of the subject areas of the 2nd International Congress of Development Studies will carry out the first evaluation and they will assign a mark (over 10 points).
    2. One paper will be selected from each subject area. These papers will be evaluated by a jury formed by five members: the President of REEDES (as President of jury), the Secretary of REEDES, one of the co-Directors of the Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies, and two members of the Scientific Committee of the 2nd International Congress of Development Studies. The Secretary of REEDES will be the Secretary of the jury.
  6. The jury may declare the corresponding prize not awarded if they consider that the candidate papers do not satisfy the necessary merits. Besides, the jury could divide up the prize (in its principal modality and accesit) through the ex aequo mention. Then the corresponding amount of money will be divided into two.
  7. The decision of the jury will be unappealable.
  8. The prizes will be paid by bank check or bank transfer.
  9. The authors of the awarded papers will transfer, exclusively, the copyright in favor of the Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies.
  10. The participation in this prize implies the acceptance of all these rules.