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.
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.
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.
Deadline: 30th April 2015
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