The Advancing Development Goals International Contest, 2019

The 2019 Advancing Development Goals International Students Contest invites teams of Master students from all academic programmes to devise innovative and pragmatic solutions to the Challenges of Global Health.

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 has launched in 2014 the Advancing Development Goals Contest, an international competition for graduate students.

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.
Eligibility

Participants of the ADG contest 2019 must be enrolled as graduate students at the time of their registration for the contest.

Participants must gather in teams of 3 (three) to 5 (five) graduate students. In the submitted analysis, they should contribute with an interdisciplinary approach or from at least 2 (two) different disciplinary perspectives.

All team members must provide a scanned copy of a document that serves as proof of enrolment as a graduate student before the registration of the team can be confirmed and validated.

Benefits

The ADG contest distributes EUR 22154.78 (CHF 25’000) in monetary prizes. The winning project will be awarded EUR 8861.91 (CHF 10’000); the two teams in second place will receive EUR 4430.96 (CHF 5’000) each and the two teams in third place, EUR 2215.48 (CHF 2’500) each.

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 South America

For more information, please visit the following link:
The Advancing Development Goals International Contest, 2019