Call for Papers

14th Poverty and Social Protection Conference [PSPC2024] accepts the following types of submissions and they will be evaluated as follows:

  • Academic submissions:
    1.  Currency, importance, and relevance to the conference themes
    2. Clearly states purpose and outcome
    3. Clearly states design methodology and findings* (applicable for complete research papers)
    4. Originality and innovation
    5. Clarity of abstract as indicator of presentation quality

  • Professional and personal development:
    1.  Relevance to conference themes
    2. Clearly states purpose and outcome
    3. Idea flow as and indicator of presentation quality
    4. Creative and inspirational
    5. Contains applicable and beneficial items

  • NGO, Government, Non-Profit:
    1.  Relevance to conference themes
    2. Clearly states purpose and outcome
    3. Idea flow as an indicator of presentation quality
    4. Clearly stated implementation
    5. Societal impact

Proposals are accepted on a rolling admission basis as long as space is available or by January 15th 2024* at the latest and are to be be submitted along with application form. All submissions will be peer reviewed and acceptance/rejections is based on criteria specified above, as well as professional and personal background of the applicant, in order to ensure a diverse learning environment. Admission decisions are made on a rolling admission basis, within working 10 days after the application has been received. 
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​*Admission may close earlier than the date stated above if space in the conference fills up.
TOPICS
  • Agriculture
  • Child labor
  • Children and youth
  • Culture
  • Disability
  • Disadvantaged groups 
  • Economic development
  • Education
  • Empowerment strategies
  • Ethnic studies
  • Food production and safety
  • Gender issues
  • Labor market policies
  • Literacy
  • Micro-finance 
  • Minorities
  • Pension Reforms 
  • Poverty 
  • Poverty growth and inequality 
  • Poverty reduction strategies 
  • Poverty monitoring 
  • Poverty and social Impacts 
  • Poverty and culture 
  • Poverty and education 
  • Poverty measurement and analysis 
  • Public health 
  • Race and ethnicity 
  • Rural development
  • Rural education
  • Social capital
  • Social inclusion
  • Social policies
  • Social risk management
  • Special and inclusive education
  • Sustainable development
  • Vocational education
  • Water supply
  • Other areas related to poverty, development and social issues
TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS
The following presentation formats will be possible at the conference:

  • Oral presentation: In-person to a live audience
  • Poster presentation: Posters are exhibited in the conference hall and available for questions and discussions
  • Video presentation: Pre-recorded video
PUBLICATION
Papers presented at the conference will be published in the official ISBN conference proceedings publication.
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Tomorrow People Organization is a member of CrossRef. Published paper will be assigned individual DOI and will be indexed in CrossRef citation database as well Google Scholar and PSPC digital library. ​
In order to have your paper published in the official conference proceedings, your submission should have been previously approved and registration arrangements completed.

Paper publication is not mandatory. Authors who have completed registration arrangements and wish to have their paper published in the official conference proceedings publication must submit the final manuscript by February 10th 2024. Otherwise, only the abstract will be published, if it meets formatting requirements and is approved by the PSPC reviewing board.
 
Formatting guidelines:
  • A4 size paper
  • Single line space
  • Margins: 2 cm on the left and 2 cm on the right
  • Format: Align left
  • No footers and headers allowed and no numbered pages
  • Fonts:
                Title: Times New Roman 14 bold
                Subtitles: Times New Roman 12 bold
                Text: Times New Roman 12
  • Front section (first page):
  1. Title of submission
  2. Name/s of author/s
  3. Affiliation/s of the author/s
  4. E-mail address of corresponding author
  5. Abstract of maximum 250 words (or one page)
  6. Key words 3-10 (under abstract)
  • Main section (manuscript):
  1. Introduction
  2. Results (where applicable)
  3. Discussion
  4. Methodology (where applicable)
  5. Conclusion 
  • End section:
  1. Acknowledgments (where applicable)
  2. Funding (authors of academic research papers must clearly disclose sources of funding for conducting their research; any grant received should be clearly indicated. If you have not received any external funding from your research, please state: "This research received no external funding)
  3. Conflict of interest (authors of academic research papers must state any circumstances that may be perceived as a conflict of interest in terms of representing or interpreting the research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please state: "Authors declare no conflict on interest")
  4. References (APA style)

*Full paper template - DOWNLOAD

Deadline for proceedings submissions (for registered authors): February 10th 2024.
Submissions received after this date or/and in a format different than specified will NOT be published. We strongly recommend early submissions to allow enough time for a review and feed back in case there are changes to be made in formatting.