Agenda:

Contest partic ipants send works for review and evaluation by the Expert Group to the e-mail: ufpa.konkurs@gmail.com.

The evaluation procedure of competitive works is anonymous, carried out by the Expert Group («blind»evaluation) on a scale from 1 to 100 points. Popular science essay sare evaluated according to the following criteria:

• originality and validity of the idea;
• correspondence of thecontent of the essay to the declared topic of the Competition;
• the oretical knowledge of the scientific field of the essay (international law, international economic relations, international relations, public communication sand regional studies, political science);
• the ability to work with primary sources in compliance with the rulesof scientific citation;
• the ability to argue one'sposition;
• correct design and presentation style.

The expert group chooses the winnersby a simplemajority of votes.

 Requirements for works:

Independently prepared individual works of students on current issues in the field of knowledge «International Relations» (international law, international economic relations, international relations, public communications and regional studies) are submitted to the Competition.

Works are drawn up in accordance with the following requirements:

The text is in the Microsoft Word editor (Times New Roman font), size – 14, spacing – 1.5, A4 format, all margins – 20 mm.

The volume is 8-10 pages with a list of used sources.

The language is Ukrainian.

Drawings, graphs, diagrams, tables placed in the text are made in the Microsoft EXCEL editor in book orientation.

The column number (page number) is placed at the bottom in the middle of the page.

All numbers expressed as decimals should look like this: 2.5; 54,84, etc.

The manuscript must be prepared according to the generally accepted scheme:

• the title of the work – in capital letters (centered);

• surname, first name and patronymic of the author – in capital letters with information about the course, faculty, name of the institution of higher education of Ukraine, specialty (centered);

• annotation in Ukrainian and English up to five hundred printed characters each (indented before the text).

The competitive work must contain the following necessary elements: relevance, references to the works of other authors who deal with similar issues, purpose, research results, general conclusion, list of used sources.

Preference will be given to works on little-researched topics of international law, international relations and foreign policy of Ukraine, which are distinguished by novelty and non-standard approaches to solving current problems of interstate relations and world politics.

Works submitted to the Competition are not returned.

Subject of competition works:

• internationallaw;
• internationaleconomicrelations;
• internationalrelations, publiccommunicationsandregionalstudies;
• politicalscience