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Social Sciences

ASEF 2024 – Social Sciences

ASEF Social Sciences Category encourages learners to engage in investigating social issues by asking essential questions, recognizing patterns of behaviors, thinking critically, creating solutions, predicting outcomes and drawing conclusions to solve social problems.

The Category of Social Sciences aims to:

Develop the ability of applying scientific methods in investigations of social studies.
Challenge students to think creatively.
Encourage students to observe and to reveal what others know about social issues.
Teach students to interpret cultural, social, political, geographical and economical motives of historical and current issues.
Encourage students to practice their communication skills, thinking and problem-solving skills.
Provide a platform for students where they can improve their public speaking skills.
Generate a public interest and awareness for global, economical and civil issues.

Preparing a project for the social sciences category may seem a difficult task. Unlike natural sciences where one conducts experiments, social sciences projects require demonstrating knowledge of the world and other cultures. Yet, there are many ways to create original and interesting projects based on history and society with quantitative or qualitative approaches.

Social Sciences Sub-Categories:

Linguistics and Communication
History and Geography
PPS (Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology)
Civics and Economics

Each sub-category will be awarded separately.

Rules

A student may be involved in one project only in one of the subcategories.
Projects may be “individual” or “group” projects. A group project may be prepared and presented by a maximum of 2 students.
ASEF uses English language as the medium of communication with its contestants, supervisors and jurors. Thus, all participants are expected to have a good command of English, even in Linguistics and Communication subcategory projects.
Contestants are required to upload:

Project Description Paper – Junior and Little scientists Category

Research Paper and Project Description Paper – Senior Category

The files must be uploaded as: namesurname_projecttitle.

The final approval from the supervisor must be given by 04.11.2024, at the latest.
Contestants are required to bring a poster, brochure, research paper(Senior Only) and project description paper for ASEF final to show the details of their project development. Preparing demonstrations and/or evidence of social experiments for ASEF finals would attract the attention of visitors and jurors.
Contestants must cover their own expenses for their project materials, stand decorations, brochures, posters, etc.
Scientific methods must be followed in the projects. The project must completely reflect participants’ own work.
Contestants are required to bring their own laptops to finals to see if anything is needed to display.
Projects might be a part of a bigger study conducted by professional scientists but the contestant(s) can only present the portion of the study in which they are actively involved.
Contestants must avoid any kind of misconduct or fraud such as falsifying data or records, piracy or plagiarism.
The project may include official statistics of different national and/or international institutions such as the UN, EU, NATO, WHO, etc.
The ASEF steering committee reserves the right of amendment of any ASEF rule.