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APPLICATION FOR BACKGROUND PAPERS


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The 23rd ASEF Summer University (ASEFSU23) is a 3-month long interdisciplinary Hackathon journey for young Asians & Europeans on “Liveable Cities for a Sustainable Future”.

Taking place between September and November 2021 (3 programme blocks a 2 weeks each), the Summer University connects young hackers, designers, innovators, urban planners and SDG experts from 51 countries to collaborate & develop urban solutions in three of the most populated countries in ASEM: Bangladesh, India & Pakistan.

ASEF is looking for recognised experts (or groups of experts) to develop background papers on 3 specific issues connected to sustainable urbanisation : 

1. Waste Management 

2. Child Obesity 

3. Urban Mobility

These papers aim to provide our non-specialist youth participants a solid knowledge foundation on these 3 topics and their connections with Sustainable Urbanisation in the 51 ASEM Partner Countries.

For each paper, authors will need to select 1 Country (ASEM Partner Country) and 1 City (minimum 200,000 people) within the selected Country  


Topics 

Waste Management

  1. Waste Management and its links with SDG11 in one Asian Country (any ASEM Partner Country in Asia except Bangladesh)
  2. Waste Management and its links with SDG11 in 1 European Country (any ASEM Partner Country in Europe)

Read more details here.

Child Obesity

  1. Child Obesity and its links with SDG 11 in 1 Asian Country (any ASEM Partner Country in Asia except India)
  2. Child Obesity and its links with SDG11 in 1 European Country (any ASEM Partner Country in Europe) 

Read more details here.

Urban Mobility

  1. Urban Mobility and its links with SDG11 in 1 Asian Country (any ASEM Partner Country in Asia except Pakistan) 
  2. Urban Mobility and its links with SDG11 in 1 European Country (any ASEM Partner Country in Europe)

Read more details here.


Financial compensation

A financial compensation of SGD 1,000 per paper will be granted. 


Eligibility

  • Citizen of any of the 51 ASEM Partner countries
  • Recognised academic or relevant expertise in the specific topic chosen, preferably with sound knowledge on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their interconnections.
  • Expert from any relevant academic discipline with the capacity to develop clear, concise and cross-disciplinary synthesis on the topic.


Paper Submission Timeline (if selected)

Manuscript submission: Wednesday, 27 October 2021

Revised manuscript submission (if needed): Sunday, 31 October 2021


For any questions, please contact Mr Quentin FAYET from ASEF’s Education Department at asefsu@asef.org.



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