The Geneva Challenge 2015

The Advancing Development Goals international Contest for Graduate Students: Return Migration

Deadline: April 30, 2015

The Geneva Challenge is an impressive  initiative to get students to apply results from their university learning to finding solutions to the socio-economic development challenges their generation is inheriting.
Return migration is a topic many students will relate to, since students are often migrants themselves,  faced with choices on whether to stay in their home country and contribute to its human development, or to follow wider opportunities, abroad.
(Neil Buhne, Director of the UNDP Geneva office and Jury Memeber)

Eager to stimulate reflection and innovation on development from diverse disciplinary and contextual perspectives and with the generous support of Ambassador Jenö Staehelin, the Graduate Institute is launching the second edition of the Advancing Development Goals Contest, an international competition for graduate students.

The Challenge

In 2015 the challenge is to discuss how return migration can contribute to social or economic development.

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 3 to 5 enrolled master students from anywhere in the world.

We invite teams of students to:

• 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;
• propose innovation at the policy, practice, process or technology levels turning the challenge into development opportunity.

Are you up to the challenge?Apply now!

Selection Process

Your submissions will be evaluated by an interdisciplinary academic steering committee who will select semi-finalists to be published on the competitions website and then reviewed by an independent jury of experts with academic, governmental and private sector backgrounds.

Three finalist teams will be invited (traveling and accommodation expenses covered) to an oral presentation in Geneva, where they will defend their ideas and answer questions from the jury and from the public. The finalists will also be present at an awards ceremony where the results of the contest will be announced preceded by a high-level key-note speech on international migration.

Prizes

The ADG contest 2015 will distribute 17,500 CHF in monetary prizes. The winning project will be awarded 10,000 CHF, the second prize will receive 5,000 CHF and the third, 2,500 CHF.

Source: The Graduate Institute

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