The Geneva Challenge for Graduate Students 2023
Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
The Graduate Institute Geneva is offering an international competition for Master students to 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
- 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
- The two teams in third place, CHF 2,500 each.
- Five finalist teams, one team per continent, will be invited (travel and accommodation expenses covered) to an oral presentation in Geneva.
- The finalists will also be invited to an awards ceremony where the contest results will be announced.
Eligibility criteria
- Participants of the ADG contest 2022 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.
- No participation on an individual basis will be admitted.
- The participants can be enrolled in:
- The same graduate programme
- Or can collaborate with students from other programmes from the university they are enrolled in
- Or coordinate with students from different universities and institutions worldwide.
- The category in which the team will be placed for the contest will be based on the continent of the universities predominantly represented within the team.
- In case there is an equal representation of continents within the team, the team decides in which category they wish to compete
- 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.
About the Graduate Institute Geneva:
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies is a government-accredited postgraduate institution of higher education located in Geneva, Switzerland. The Graduate Institute is dedicated to the study of world affairs, with a particular emphasis on the cross-cutting fields of international relations and development issues. It aims to promote international cooperation and make a contribution to the progress of developing societies.
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