Advancing Development Goals Contest for Graduates Students

The Graduate Student Geneva with the support of Ambassador Jenö Staehelin 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.

The contest invites 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.

Eligibility
In order to be eligible participants must be enrolled graduate students: anyone enrolled in a post-bachelor level university program with a maximum duration of 2 years, or anyone who can prove to be studying towards acquiring a masters level degree. Participants must gather in teams of 3 to 5 graduate students, who are able to contribute from at least 2 different disciplinary perspectives to the submitted analysis.

Prizes

The ADG contest 2015 will distribute 17,500 CHF in monetary prizes:
- First prize: 10,000 CHF
- Second prize: 5,000 CHF
- Third prize: 2,500 CHF

Further details:
http://www.mladiinfo.eu