Rationale

Over the years, the development of agriculture and fisheries including the appropriate environmental management has been considered as the main concern of local, regional, and national institutions. These are supported by national agencies whose primary role is to enhance the development of technologies and innovations together with the documentation of best practices to improve communities and the productivity and profitability of people in a sustainable manner.

One of the agencies involved in this important work is a network of state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the different regions of the country. This network support initiatives of SUCs in various fields particularly in education, research, and extension for development programs. Being in the realm of academic research and extension, SUCs provide the avenue for competency development for its staff at the same time its clientele, whose work are also exemplary contributory to local and regional development.

Today, the Ilocos Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development Consortium (ILAARRDEC) as one of the dynamic consortia in Ilocos Region covering research, development and extension in agriculture, aquatic, and natural resources is looking at the importance of academic researches by graduate students. This is an opportunity given to students to showcase and present their research outputs/findings as well as encourage academic discourse and intellectual exchange for further development.

The ILAARRDEC Regional Graduate Student Research Congress is also an initiative of the consortium to enable  graduate students to present their thesis/dissertation in  scientific conferences or publish in research journals as stipulated in CHED Memorandum Circular No. 15, Series of 2019. The consortium will likewise ensure that entries will undergo refereeing by the panel of evaluators as initial step towards their submission for publication. 

The Research Congress will be conducted on December 10, 2021, via virtual platform under the overall coordination of ILAARRDEC and the Mariano Marcos State University, being the consortium’s base institution.

 

Objectives

To institutionalize a scientific research initiative in education, agriculture, fisheries and environmental management in Ilocos region.

Specifically, it aims to:

1. encourage student researchers’ active participation in scientific knowledge dissemination and exchange;

2. strengthen local research competency development along agriculture, aquatic, environment and natural resources through rigors of educational research strategies;

3. identify potential technological breakthroughs and innovations for further research fine-tuning and scaling-up;

4. strengthen the regional consortium through budding researchers from different member institutions; and

5. disseminate quality researches in agriculture, fisheries and aquatic, natural resources, and environment management with significant contribution to local and regional development thru research congress and publication.

 

Categories

           The entries will be categorized into three: 1) Agriculture; 2) Aquatic and Fisheries; and 3) Natural Resources and Environment, including social science in each of the categories.

 

Entry Selection

 Entries should be endorsed by the participating Consortium Member Institutions.

As advocate of the Equal Opportunity Principle (EOP), each CMI should ensure that EOP is adhered to during the entry selection process.

 

Graduate Student Research Paper/Oral Competition Guidelines

 · The competition is open to currently enrolled graduate students or graduates during the SY 2020-2021 and 1^st semester of SY 2021-2022 of HEI member institutions of the consortium and whose theses are along agriculture, aquatic and natural resources or related fields.

· The manuscript should be in condensed version (journal style) not exceeding 30 pages in A4 paper, double spaced, using Calibri 12”, with 1’’ margin for all sides. Pagination should be in bottom right of the document.

· Abstract should not exceed 350 words with 3-5 keywords written as footnote. Review of Literature can be integrated in the Introduction, Methodology, and Results and Discussion.

· Submission of entries (in PDF format) will be done by participating CMIs. This should be accompanied by an expanded abstract/research highlights not exceeding five (5) pages.

· Entries should be sent thru ILAARRDEC’s e-mail: ilaarrdec@mmsu.edu.ph or ilarrdec@yahoo.com  on or before November 26, 2021.

· Should the number of entries exceed 15 papers, a preliminary evaluation will be done by a committee to be created by ILAARRDEC to select the top 15 entries for presentation virtually via zoom.

· The entries will be clustered into three: Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources provided there will be a minimum of five (5) papers per cluster.

· Top three (3) papers will be identified per cluster through a panel of evaluators during the virtual presentation based on the set criteria.

 

Registration

· Participants are required to pre-register, through the link: https://bit.ly/3nrP2oQ

· Zoom link will be sent through the registered email.

· Registration is free.

 

Awards

            The top three in each category will receive certificate of recognition and cash award broken as follows:

First Place P8,000.00

Second Place P5,000.00

Third Place P3,000.00

Non-winning entries/participants will receive a Certificate of Appreciation.

 

For inquiries, pls contact the ILAARRDEC Secretariat:

Mobile:              +63 948 327 3465

Email:                 ilaarrdec@mmsu.edu.ph

                           or ilarrdec@yahoo.com

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