1. Laboratorio Athena organizes a competition for writing an original paper.
2. The competition is open to students attending the first and second level of courses in any University of European Countries.
3. Competition topic: SOCIAL INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
4. Before 31 January 2019 each student wishing to participate must send a message to the mail address info@laboratorioathena.org declaring his/her engagement in the competition.
5. The participation to the competition is reserved to the first twenty students declaring their wish to participate according to previous point 4).
6. Basic admission requirements:a) Each paper should be signed by an individual author.

   b) Papers should be written in English and should have a maximum length of eight pages (text and bibliography).

   c) Editing rules to be adopted:
   Times New Roman 12;
   Line spacing 1,5;
   Margins: Right and left sides 2 cm; bottom side, 2,5 cm;
   Footnotes: Times New Roman 10.

   d) After the bibliography, there should be: Author’s name and surname, University, Personal identification code, Email address to be utilized for all communications concerning the competition.

   e) Papers should be submitted exclusively in PDF and sent no later than 28 February 2019 to the email address info@laboratorioathena.org.

   f) The paper must respect following obligatory structure: title, autor, abstract, text, bibliography.

   If one of the requirements is missing, the paper will be excluded.

7. Members of Laboratorio Athena and Professors of invited and participating Universities will be part of the evaluation board. They will evaluate the paper and award first, second and third positions. In the case of equal scores will be preferred the paper having the higher score in the first evaluation criteria (see below). Mentions of honour can be assigned to other papers.
8. Results will be communicated by email directly to the ones awarded not later than 30 April 2019. Information will be published on laboratorioathena.org.
9. A prize in money will be assigned to the first three winner: respectively 150,00€, 100,00€, 50,00€. A diploma will be given to all the authors awarded. Sponsors, if any, could assign additional prizes.
10. Laboratorio Athena reserves the possibility to organize an event offering to all participants – even if not awarded – the possibility to present their papers live or by videoconference.
11. The evaluation board will adopt the following criteria to fulfil the evaluation process.

CRITERIA FOR PAPERS EVALUATION

Each evaluator will give a score in a range from 1 (minimum) up to 5 (maximum) – for each of the following criteria:

1. Coherence with the topic and quality of the paper
2. Author’s original thinking
3. Correctness and adequateness of the bibliographic sources
4. English fluency