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ARUA Centre of Excellence for Unemployment and Skills Development International Conference, 2020 – Lagos, Nigeria
CALL FOR PAPER
CONFERENCE THEME
“The Deepening Youth Unemployment Crisis in Africa Occasioned by Covid-19 Pandemic: What Options Available for the Rescue?
Track Themes
- Understanding the History, Challenges, African Governments’ and International Community Policy Interventions, Policy Intervention Failures of Youth Unemployment in Africa
- Youth Unemployment Crisis on Socio-Economic Development and Wealth Creation of African Nations in Post COVID-19
- Role of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 in Combating Youth Unemployment Crisis in Africa
Agropreneurship
Agropreneurship and Agro-allied Value-chain Options for the Rescue of Youth Unemployment in Africa
Innovation and Technopreneurship
Opportunities Presented by Technology Startup Enterprise, Innovation, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Engineering, Social Media, Hubs and Incubation Labs for Enhancing Youth Entrepreneurial Spirit, And Competitiveness in Post COVID-19 Era
Talent Management and Skills Development
Exploration of the Instrumentality of Technical, Vocational Education, and Training (TVET) for the Rescue, Decent Jobs, Employability Skills and the Future of Work in Post COVID-19 Era
Entrepreneurship Areas
Youth entrepreneurship, Green Entrepreneurship, International Entrepreneurship and Born Global, Entrepreneurship Economics and Finance, Entrepreneurship Management and Marketing, Political Entrepreneurship, Construction Entrepreneurship, Health Entrepreneurship, Arts Entrepreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship
Family Business and Gender Entrepreneurship in Africa
Dynamics of Family Business and Women Entrepreneurship as Drivers of Youth Employment Creation, and Challenges of Family Business in Scaling over 2nd Generation in Africa
Informal and Social Entrepreneurship
Cultivating Solution-Oriented Mindsets that are Societal Focused and Address Community Challenges for Inclusive and Sustainable Development
Intellectual Property Protection, Legal Framework, and National Policies for Enterprise and Job Creation for the Youths in Africa.
Submission Guidelines
All Manuscript must follow the following guidelines:
- Insightful, persuasive, original, constructive with evidence-based analysis, and must be relevant to the Conference theme;
- Should range between 7500 and maximum of 10000 words with font size 12, double line spaced and in Times New Roman fonts;
- Ideas must be clearly communicated in English language; and
- Should be appropriately referenced using the 6th edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style (However, use 7th edition if you are conversant with it)
We will be pleased to receive your submission on or before 12 midnight (WAT) of November 5, 2020. Authors’ submissions will be acknowledged by November 8, 2020 and subjected to serious peer review process. Successful authors will be contacted for correction by November 19, 2020. Final registration for the Conference will commence on Monday, November 16, 2020.
Interested contributors should please, submit suitable manuscripts that follow the prescribed guidelines through https://arua-coe-usd.com/?page_id=3356 and send as email to arua_usd-coe@unilag.edu.ng; copy sadebisi@unilag.edu.ng and ishittu@unilag.edu.ng
Kindly download “The Call”.
*This Conference is fully sponsored by the ARUA-UKRI GCRF Partnership and Capacity Development Grant (submission, review and publications are FREE)
PRIZES: Best Paper Award in each Track gets GBP200 and a Certificate of Attendance for all Participants