A Golden Milestone for ASEAN Youth Innovation

In 2025, the ASEAN Virtual Student Opinion Competition (AVISOC) returns for its fifth installment which has stood as a premier competition that challenges university students to express their best opinion on world issues in the form of article or poster, amplifying the voices of young visionaries across Southeast Asia. This year, we uniquely celebrate as part of the 63th anniversary of Universitas Brawijaya (Indonesia). This competition is hosted by the Faculty of Administrative Science and supported by IRO (International Relations Office) Faculty of Administrative Science and IOUB (International Office Universitas Brawijaya).

AVISOC 2025 holds 2 (two) competitions for concerned participants to choose:

1. Opinion Competition

2. Poster Competition

The description of each competition will be provided in the next sections. Select one competition that best suits your interest as one student can only participate in one competition at a time.

Eligible to register as participants are undergraduate/bachelor’s degree/diploma degree students from universities across South East Asian countries. Their active status as student will be acknowledged by attaching a photo of their Student ID during the registration process.

The winners of AVISOC 2025  will receive prize, including international certificate of achievement. Other participants will receive certificate of participation.

The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Theme

Fostering ASEAN Youth Innovation in Business, Public Service, Education, and Climate Action

Requirements

The followings are the things that you need to know before start working on your poster. Please learn carefully.

• Your poster has never been seen or published elsewhere.
• The poster can be designed by an individual, or a maximum of 3 (three) persons in a group of participants with all persons coming from the same institution.
• Every participant is allowed to send only 1 (one) poster.
• The poster is created on an A4-size paper (21 cm x 29.7 cm), in PNG/JPG/JPEG format, with minimum resolution of 300 ppi.

• Put on the logo of your institution on the top side of the poster, along with the name(s) of the creator(s) on the bottom.

Scoring Criteria

Your poster will be scored under the following guidance:

How to Register?

• The poster is submitted as you register yourself through our online submission form on the main website.
• Files submitted consist of:
  • Poster file, max. 3 MB.
  • Photo of Student ID, max. 2 MB.

Guide Book Avisoc 2025

Description

An Opinion is an article, usually published in a newspaper or magazine, that mainly reflects the author’s opinion about a subject. It aims to explain to the reader the author’s perspective on a certain issue. The perspective can be analytical or persuasive. An example of Opinion can be seen here from The Jakarta Post: https://www.thejakartapost.com/academia/opinion.

Theme

Fostering ASEAN Youth Innovation in Business, Public Service, Education, and Climate Action

Choice of Issue

This year the Committee has decided to open only one general issue for Opinion Article contest. The matter is not on what subject you focus on; rather, the current, latest, and/or trending issue which is happening around you and deserve your attention, then scientific comment in the form of Opinion Article.

In other words, at the beginning of your article, you must mention the issue that you want to raise which is the current, latest, and/or trending happening in your hometown, country or other countries. Make it contextual for readers from other countries.

After that, continue with writing your voice regarding the issue. Remember, in an Opinion, your arguments should be supported by facts, data, research results, and/or comments by relevant experts or parties. 

Requirements

The followings are the things that you need to know before start working on your article. Please learn carefully.

• The article is written by 1 (one) person only.
• Every participant is allowed to send maximum 1 (one) article.
• The article should consist of 700-1200 words at the most.
• Type the article by following these rules:

1. Paper size: A4
2. Font type: Arial or Times New Roman
3. Font size: 12
4. Line spacing: 1.5
5. The opinion article should be original and has never been published elsewhere.

How to Register?

• The article is submitted as you register yourself through our online submission form on the main website.
• Files submitted consist of:
• Article file (PDF format), max. 3 MB
• Photo of or scanned Student ID, max. 2 MB
•  Statement of originality (provided on our website)

Use the following files as necessary.

1. Plagiarism-Statement-Opinion Article
2. Copyright-Statement-Poster Photograph

There is no registration fee for joining this competition. All eligible students shall pay nothing to register.

Please be aware with the following important dates, so that you do not lose a chance to win this international competition.

The announcement of winners is a one package show with an international virtual seminar held by the organizers. All registered participants should attend the seminar.

The views and opinions expressed in the Opinion article and Poster submitted by participants are those of the authors/creators and do not necessarily reflect the official view or policy of the organizing committee. Any content provided by the authors/creators are of their opinion, and are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual or anyone or anything. The AVISOC Committee shall retain rights for all submitted works (articles, posters, and photos).

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Find your certificates here. If your have any inquiries, send us an email to avisoc@ub.ac.id. 

Coming soon after the event is over!!!

1. Article Opinion Form
2. Poster Contest Form
3. Avisoc Seminar & Awarding Day Form