Contest for Students on Real Estate Problems and a Chance to Win $5000 from CoreNet Global

CoreNet Global invites students from all over the world to participate in a competition to find solutions to the problems facing real estate professionals from such famous companies as Google, Duke Energy, AstraZeneca, Whirlpool, and many others.

About the Competition:

Student teams from universities and academic institutions around the world are invited to compete in an academic challenge wherein students are asked to play the role of an internal corporate real estate team in order to address a real-world issue facing companies around the globe: develop an ESG strategy for the corporate real estate portfolio that addresses: post-pandemic health and safety concerns and employee well-being; the corporate commitment to being a better steward of the environment; and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

How can corporate real estate professionals take a leadership role in helping their companies develop an agile ESG strategy that permits the board and management to shift back and forth among short-, medium-, and long-term issues as the changing business environment may require? What will be the lasting impact of the COVID-19 lockdown and the resulting health and safety protocols and practices on the environment and climate change?

Your strategy should:

• Develop a pathway to deliver an emissions neutral company by 2030 at the latest, and set ambitious interim targets and/or carbon budget;
• Demonstrate how the company’s corporate real estate portfolio will be managed in order to address post-pandemic health and safety concerns and employee well-being, and improve its resilience to the climate hazards that may impact the company now and in future climate change scenarios;
• Detail the social, environmental, and DE&I benefits expected from implementing the strategy, and improve the equitable distribution of these benefits to the company’s shareholders and employees; and
• Identify the partners who need to be engaged in order to accelerate the delivery of the company’s mitigation targets and resilience goals.

• All finalists will receive invaluable experience and opportunities far beyond the value of the prize money.
• Non-Member finalists and their faculty advisors will be given complimentary membership in CoreNet Global and a copy of The Essential Guide to Corporate Real Estate.
• Finalist students and their faculty advisors will receive complimentary admission to the Global Summit and receive complimentary travel and lodging throughout the event (NB: all travel to be coordinated through CoreNet Global).
• The winning team will receive US$5,000,
• Gain international experience.
• Connect with experts.

• The competition is open to students of all disciplines pursuing a Bachelors's or Masters's degree at a recognized degree-awarding institution, on a full-time or part-time basis. Each student must be currently enrolled in classes at their host university throughout the competition, and not have more than 7 years of prior professional experience.
• Employees of CoreNet Global and their family members are not allowed to enter the competition.
• The competition is open to teams of two (2) to four (4) students; team members may be from different academic programs within one institution, and/or teams may be comprised of students from more than one institution.
• Each team must have a faculty advisor from their home institution, and their contact information must be included on the team’s registration form.
• Each team must appoint a Team Leader. The Team Leader will be the main contact point for CoreNet Global.
• Three teams, with a minimum of two (2) and a maximum of four (4) students each, will be selected to compete onsite at the CoreNet Global North American Summit, a professional conference for 3,000+ corporate real estate professionals from around the world, to be held in Seattle, WA, 7 – 9 November 2021. Interested students are required to complete a competition registration and respond to several questions, as discussed herein. Based on the quality of their responses to the questions posed, three teams will be invited to participate in the Final Round.

About CoreNet Global:

CoreNet Global is a non-profit association, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia (US), representing more than 10,000 executives in 50 countries with strategic responsibility for the real estate assets of large corporations. The organization’s mission is to advance the practice of corporate real estate through professional development opportunities, publications, research, conferences, designations, and networking in 47 local chapters and networking groups globally.

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