ECH Case Awards Competition 2013 ( Type: Competitions Awards/ Sub-Category: Essay) 11 October 2013 Submission deadline February 2014 Announcement of winners ecch/educators/casemethod/competitions/ecchcasewriting/about Description The case writing competition is part of the ecch Case Awards which are presented annually to recognise worldwide excellence in case writing and to raise the profile of the case method of learning. In 2012 the competition attracted 92 entries from 66 places of learning in 28 countries. Categories for the 2013 competition 1. Crisis as Opportunity The hot topic identified by the ecch Executive Committee for the 2013 case writing competition is Crisis as Opportunity. Relevance to the topic will form part of the judging criteria. 2. New case writer This category is designed to recognise new case authors. Submissions must be the first teaching case prepared by the author(s) in a format that can be used by other case teachers. The case may focus on any business subject area. NB An author may enter both categories in the same year but not with the same case. Prizes The author(s) of the winning case in each category will receive a single prize of €1,500. Eligibility The authors Case authors must be teachers of management education. Students and research assistants are only eligible if they are part of an author team led by a faculty member. Cases can be written by one or more authors. Teams of authors may be from different institutions worldwide but the copyright owner must be stated on the submission form. If entering the new case writer category the submission must be the first teaching case for all authors. The case Submissions must have been tested in the classroom, completed after 1 April 2012 and be in English. They may be compiled from field research, published sources or generalised experience. Authors may submit a single case or a case series. The case, or case series, must be a maximum of 5,000 words, excluding exhibits and annexes. Each submission must be accompanied by a teaching note for which there is no word limit. Recognition This competition forms part of the annual ecch Case Awards (formerly the European Case Awards) that recognise outstanding case development. The Awards are a unique event that acknowledge the authors of high quality cases and the role they play in management education. Many high profile management educators have been recipients of awards. The competition winners will be announced with a press release in February next year alongside the 2014 award winners. This will be sent to key business education press contacts worldwide. Winning cases will be identified as a prize winner in the ecch on-line product database helping raise their profile to potential users. Winning case authors will be offered the chance to have their case featured on the ecch website and may be invited to present their case at an ecch event. Judging The judging panels will be announced soon.
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