The Global Debate and Public Policy Challenge offer undergraduates across disciplines and continents an opportunity to explore issues of global importance from different points of view in its second year.
The Challenge enables participants irrespective of their field of study to develop their capacity to critically engage issues of public policy that affect them and the communities they live in. It is important for all of us to recognize our shared responsibilities and in that spirit, develop, support and advocate for policies which benefit not only ourselves but wider society as well.
Objectives of the Challenge:
Targeting undergraduate students and recent graduates, the program challenges participants to:
- Think about their locality from a global perspective and vice-versa;
- Reflect critically on policy questions that present serious international challenges;
- Have students make the strongest case possible to a global audience for policies that they feel support an open society; and
- Enable students to develop a global and moral compass that will guide their lives as citizens in an ever more interdependent world and form a basis for policy discourse on a global level
By galvanizing undergraduates globally and from across disciplines, the program will:
- Make a serious contribution to public policy discourse on an issue of major global importance;
- Identify and further support future policy champions from among alumni of the program; and
- Develop informed citizens capable of engaging in public policy discourse.
It is highly important that the current generation of university students develop the skills needed to engage these challenges in a fair as well as just manner when issues like global warming, nuclear proliferation or the financial crisis require global action. IDEA and its partners believe that to respond to the challenges of an interdependent world, Students should develop a sense of responsibility for their fellow human beings at university as well as acceptance of their personal role in creating open societies, and be equipped with the tools to find and advocate for solutions to global policy questions. The Global Debate and Public Policy Challenge wishes to attract an extensive range of students into the realm of policy advocacy as possible.
Prizes:
Win a trip to Budapest, Hungary and one of many scholarships and stipends
If you participate in this exciting Challenge by submitting your policy memorandum by, you become eligible to advance to the Second Task, becoming even closer to winning a free trip to Budapest and one of several scholarship/stipend awards available. There will be around 50 finalists who will be selected to go to Budapest for the Global Public Policy Forum in June 2013 with the cost of travel and accommodation paid by the organizers. Finalists will attend workshops to hone their public-speaking and advocacy skills as well as compete in progressive rounds to determine up to top 10 finalists to compete for the scholarship / stipend awards. The top winners will be awarded the prizes.
Deadline: 30th November, 2012
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