The Geneva Challenge 2017 - International Contest for Graduate Students

The 2017 edition of the Geneva Challenge is a project funded by Swiss Ambassador Jenö Staehelin and is supported by Kofi Annan, the high-patron of the contest. This year students are invited to develop analysis-based proposals on "The Challenges of Employment". 

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.

Students are invited to:

-identify a challenge stemming from employment;

-construct an interdisciplinary analysis on how it affects different aspects of development in a specific (but transposable) context;

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

The Geneva Challenge 2017 will distribute 17500 CHF in monetary prizes and the finalists will be invited to publicly present their wok in Geneva before a panel of high-level experts. Networking and publication opportunities are also envisioned as part of the prize package.

Registrations close on 25th May 2017.

Submission due by 31st July 2017. 

For more information visit www.thegenevachallenge.org