The challenge aims to gather contributions that are both theoretically grounded and offer pragmatic solutions to a relevant international development problem stemming from an interdisciplinary collaboration between three to five enrolled master students from anywhere in the world.
Prizes fo 2022 Geneva Challenge
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
- Also, Universities located in Europe
- Universities located in North America and Oceania
- Also, Universities located in South America
The ADG contest distributes 20,500 CHF in monetary prizes:
- The winning project will get the award of CHF 10,000
- Two teams in second place will receive CHF 5,000
- Also, the two teams who were in third place will take away CHF 2,500.
What will happen in the Contest
Students will participate in the following way:
- identify a challenge stemming from climate change;
- 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 a development opportunity.
