Deadline: 14th July 2024.
Eager to stimulate reflection and innovation on development issues from diverse disciplinary and contextual perspectives and with the generous support of Ambassador Jenö Staehelin, the Graduate Institute launched the Advancing Development Goals Contest, an international competition for Master students, in 2014.
The 2024 Advancing Development Goals International Contest for Graduate Students aims to present innovative and pragmatic solutions to address the challenges of youth empowerment.
The idea is to gather contributions that are both theoretically grounded and offer pragmatic solutions to a relevant international development problem stemming from an interdisciplinary collaboration between three to five enrolled master students from anywhere in the world.
Benefits
- 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 presentations and submissions of the finalists will be promoted for information in relevant publications and international organisation fora, creating professional networking opportunities.
- 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.
Eligibility
- Participants of the ADG contest 2024 must be enrolled as graduate students at the time of their registration for the contest.
- Participants must gather in teams of 3 (three) to 5 (five) graduate students. In the submitted analysis, they should contribute with an interdisciplinary approach or from at least 2 (two) different disciplinary perspectives.
- All team members must provide a scanned copy of a document that serves as proof of
enrolment as a graduate student before the registration of the team can be confirmed and
validated. - Exceptionally, we might accept the registration of students who are transitioning into graduate studies, as long as they have already been accepted in a graduate student programme at the time of the registration.
Application Process
- Submissions must be sent by email to: [email protected] before midnight 12 am (Central Europe Time (CET)), on 14th July 2024.
- Submissions must include both an abstract and the project.
- The abstract should be one page long and should include short biographies of each team
member, a brief description of the problem addressed by the project and the solution,
specifying in which way the proposed solution will make a difference. - The project, which will have a maximum length of 8000 (eight thousand) words excluding all notes, graphics and references and must be written in English or French.
- The submissions will combine theoretical analyses, creativity, critical thinking on technical assistance, capacity building and on the agency of development.
- Entries must be original. All long listed works will go through a check for plagiarism before being forwarded to the Jury members as semi-finalists of the 2024 Geneva Challenge.
For more information and application.