Call for abstracts & full paper submission instructions
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Call for abstracts is now closed – thank you for the submitted abstracts!
The next National Entrepreneurship Education Conference will be organized on 27-28 September 2023 in Turku. The theme of the conference is Critical and reflective perspectives on entrepreneurship education. You can submit a) a scientific abstract, b) a practical development work or c) a workshop proposal to the conference for evaluation.
Abstracts are invited to be sent to the following sub-themes:
- Critical and reflective examination of entrepreneurship education
- Entrepreneurship education and values
- Entrepreneurship education as a multidisciplinary research field
- Building an entrepreneurial culture in entrepreneurship education
- Pedagogical experiments and new practices in entrepreneurship education
- Cooperation between companies and educational institutions
- Evaluation of entrepreneurship education
- Future prospects of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship research
- International issues of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship learning
- Digital matters in entrepreneurship education
- Sustainable development goals and entrepreneurship education
Writing instructions for abstracts:
- The maximum length is 250 words
- Maximum of 4 keywords
- Anonymized abstract is sent as an e-mail attachment in Word format to the e-mail address: ykts2023(at)utu.fi
- In the subject field of the e-mail, state: YKTS2023 and the title of the abstract
- The e-mail message must state:
- Does the abstract deal with scientific research, practical development work/case or a workshop
- Sub-theme
- Title of the abstract (max 10 words)
- Authors’ names and organizations and corresponding author’s e-mail address
a) Scientific research:
- The purpose of the study
- Research questions
- Theoretical framework
- Methods
- Key results
- Theoretical contributions and practical implications
b) Practical development work:
- Purpose of the development work?
- What practice was sought for improvement/solution?
- What previous practices and theories have been taken into account in the design phase?
- How has the development work been carried out?
- What are the key results?
- The most significant further consequences/impact of this development work
c) Proposal for the workshop:
- Purpose of the workshop
- Implementation of the workshop
- Key learning outcomes/results and their applicability
- Related research
Important dates & information:
- The deadline for abstract proposals is May 3, 2023 Note! The deadline has been extended until May 14, 2023
- Notification of abstract acceptance: 16 June 2023
- Registration opens: 16 June 2023
- Sending the full manuscript for evaluation as a Word file: 31 August 2023
- During the days, the best paper and the best practical development work will be awarded
- More information: www.utu.fi/ykts2023
FULL PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
- The maximum length of the article is 20 pages (inc. abstract, figures, tables, references)
- The author(s) is responsible of correct spelling
- Please use Times New Roman 12 pt, bold font for headings 12 pt
- Use line spacing of 1.5 and leave one line between paragraphs
- After the title, please mark the names and affiliations of the author(s) and the responsible author email address
- Use APA (American Psychological Association) citation style
- Do not use hyphenation or make special formatting in the text section
- Note or endnotes should not be used
- Figures and tables are as small as convenient
- Author(s) are responsible of taking care of copyright issues
The following main and subheadings may be used:
- Title (maximum 10 words), followed by Author information
- Abstract (maximum 200 words) and keywords (4-6 keywords)
- Introduction (that includes the aim of the research and the most important results)
- Theoretical framework (that opens up key concepts and previous relevant research)
- Methodology (justification of methodological approach, presentation of the research material/data, analysis methods and how the analysis was conducted, evaluation of ethics and reliability)
- Results
- Conclusions and discussion
- References
Please, send the full paper for evaluation by 31 August 2023 as a Word document (ykts2023@utu.fi). Name the file by the last and first name of the responsible author and the abbreviation of the conference (Surname_Firstname_YKTS2023). Please, add the name of the responsible author and the title of the full paper in the subject field of the e-mail message.