Grants for Master's Students on Poverty Reduction Solutions from the Graduate Institute of Geneva

The Graduate Institute of Geneva offers grants to master's students from all over the world who provide innovative, interdisciplinary solutions that address global challenges to poverty reduction. The Institute launched the Development Objectives Development Competition in 2014.

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.

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 South America.

• The ADG contest distributes 25,000 CHF in monetary prizes.
• The winning project will be awarded CHF 10,000;
• the two teams in second place will receive CHF 5,000 each and the two teams in third place, CHF 2,500 each.

TIMELINE:

• Registration deadline: 20 April 2022
• Submission deadline: 13 July 2022
• Announcement of semi-finalists: mid-August 2022
• Announcement of finalists: mid-September 2022
• Final presentation & award ceremony: mid-November 2022

SELECTION PROCESS:

• Submissions are evaluated by an interdisciplinary academic steering committee that will select three submissions per category to be published on the competition's website and then reviewed by an independent jury of experts with academic, governmental and private sector backgrounds.
• Five finalist teams, one team per continent, will be invited (complying with COVID-19 restrictions; travel and accommodation expenses covered) to an oral presentation in Geneva, where they will defend their ideas and answer questions from the jury and the public. The finalists will also be invited to an awards ceremony where the contest results will be announced, preceded by a high-level keynote speech.

About the Graduate Institute Geneva:

The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies is an institution of research and higher education dedicated to the study of world affairs, with a particular emphasis on the cross-cutting fields of international relations and development issues. Through our core activities, we aim to promote international cooperation and make a contribution to the progress of developing societies. More broadly, we endeavour to develop creative thinking on the major challenges of our time, foster global responsibility and advance respect for diversity.

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