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Applications are now open for the 2025 Geneva Challenge. The 2025 Advancing Development Goals International Contest for Graduate Students aims to present innovative and pragmatic solutions to address the challenges of migration.
Opportunity Details
Eager to stimulate reflection and innovation on development issues from diverse disciplinary and contextual perspectives and with the generous support of Ambassador Jenö Staehelin, the Graduate Institute launched the Advancing Development Goals Contest, an international competition for Master students, in 2014.
The idea is to gather contributions that are both theoretically grounded and offerpragmatic solutions to a relevant international development problem stemming from an interdisciplinary collaboration between three to five enrolled master students from anywhere in the world.
Five prizes will be distributed; one in each of the following categories (based on the UN Statistics list):
Universities located in Africa
Universities located in Asia
Universities located in Europe
Universities located in North America and Oceania
Universities located in Latin America
Prizes
The ADG contest distributes 25,000 CHF in monetary prizes. The winning project will be awarded CHF 10,000; the two teams in second place will receive CHF 5,000 each and the two teams in third place, CHF 2,500 each.
This contest is open to master students from anywhere in the world.
SELECTION PROCESS
Submissions are evaluated by an interdisciplinary academic steering committee that will select three submissions per category to be published on the competition's websiteand then reviewed by an independent jury of experts with academic, governmental and private sector backgrounds.
Five finalist teams, one team per continent, will be invited to an oral presentation in Geneva, where they will defend their ideas and answer questions from the jury and the public. The finalists will also be invited to an awards ceremony where the contest results will be announced, preceded by a high-level keynote speech.
Registration deadline: 30 April 2025at 23:59 CET.
Submission deadline: 16 July 2025 at 23:59 CET.
The registration deadline is simply the date by which they need you to fill in the application form and send them your proof of enrolment, confirming your status as a master's student.
Following the registration, you have eleven weeks to prepare you proposal, which is due by the submission deadline.
Documents
Apply for Geneva Challenge