Deadline: 30 April 2015
The Graduate Institute Geneva invites teams of 3-5 enrolled Masters Students from anywhere in the world to participate in the Geneva Challenge 2015 Advancing Development Goals Contest: Return Migration and Socio-Economic Development. The student teams should identify a challenge stemming from return migration; construct an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis on how it affects social or economic development in a specific (but transposable) context; and propose innovation at the policy, practice, process or technology levels turning the challenge into development opportunity.
Three finalist teams (all team members) will be invited to an oral presentation in Geneva. Traveling and accommodation expenses will be covered.
Prizes
- First Prize – 10,000 CHF
- Second prize – 5,000 CHF
- Third Prize – 2,500 CHF
Note the Key Dates
- 30 April 2015 – Deadline for registration of participants
- 30 May 2015 – Deadline for submission of entries
- 1 July 2015 – Semi-finalists announced
- 20 July 2015 – Evaluation meeting jury
- 27 July 2015 – Announcement of the Finalists
- 15 October 2015 – Presentations of the finalists and awards ceremony
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be team of enrolled graduate students (anyone enrolled in a post-bachelor level university program with a maximum duration of two years, or anyone who can prove to be studying towards acquiring a masters level degree) at the time of their registration for the contest.
- The participants can be enrolled in a same graduate program, collaborate with students from other programs from the university they are enrolled in or coordinate with students from different universities and institutions worldwide.
- All team members should provide a scanned copy of a document that serves as proof of enrollment as a graduate student before the registration of the team can be confired and validated.
- Each group must have a team leader who can act as main (not sole) focus point for communication with the organization of the contest.
For more information, please visit The Geneva Challenge 2015.
