Submissions open for Geneva Challenge

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.

Categories

• Five prizes will be distributed; one in each of the following categories:
  • Universities located in Africa
  • Universities located in Asia
  • Universities located in Europe
  • Universities located in North America and Oceania
  • Universities located in Latin America

Funding Information

• 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 Criteria

• Participants of the ADG contest 2024 must be enrolled as graduate students at the time of their registration for the contest.
  • They consider “graduate students” to be anyone enrolled in a post bachelor level university programme with a maximum duration of (two) years, or anyone who can prove to be studying towards acquiring a master’s level degree or equivalent.
• Participants must gather in teams of (three) to (five) graduate students. In the submitted analysis, they should contribute with an interdisciplinary approach or from at least (two) different disciplinary perspectives.
  • 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.
  • Any official document issued by the academic institution the student is affiliated to is accepted as proof of enrolment as long as it contains:
    • The name of the student;
    • The program the student is enrolled in;
    • An issuance date up to three months before the registration date;
    • Validity beyond the registration date.
• Exceptionally, they 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.

For more information, visit Geneva Graduate Institute.