Application Deadline: July 14, 2024 at 23:59 CET.
Applications are now open for the 2024 Geneva Challenge. The 2024 Advancing Development Goals International Contest for Graduate Students aims to present innovative and pragmatic solutions to address the challenges of youth empowerment
Eager to stimulate reflection and innovation on development from diverse disciplinary and contextual perspectives and with the generous support of Ambassador Jenö Staehelin, the Graduate Institute has launched in 2014 the Advancing Development Goals Contest, an annual international competition for Master students.
Every year, the participants are invited provide contributions that are both theoretically grounded and offer pragmatic solutions to a specific relevant international development problem stemming from an interdisciplinary collaboration between three to five enrolled master students from anywhere in the world.
This year, we will distribute five prizes, one per continent. The five finalist teams will be invited to come to Geneva for their project showcases and the award ceremony in November 2024. Five prizes will be distributed; one in each of the following categories (based on the UN Statistics list):
- Universities located in Africa
- Universities located in Asia
- Universities located in Europe
- Universities located in North America and Oceania
- Universities located in Latin America
Prizes
- All shortlisted submissions selected by the ASC are published and promoted (if authorised by the teams) on the Geneva Challenge website, providing visibility to the teams and their work.
- All members of the 5 finalist teams will be invited to come to Geneva for an oral presentation where they will defend their proposals and answer questions from the Jury and from the public.
- The finalists will also be present at the awards ceremony where the results of the contest will be announced, preceded by a high-level keynote speech on The Challenges of Youth Empowerment.
- Travel expenses such as flights, visa requests and accommodation are covered by the organisation of the contest for this purpose
- The winning project will receive a cash prize of CHF 10 ‘000 (ten thousand Swiss Francs). The two teams in second place will receive CHF 5 ‘000 each. The two teams in third place, CHF 2 ‘500 each.
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