Geneva Challenge 2025 Advancing Development Goals International Contest

The 2025 Advancing Development Goals International Contest for Graduate Students aims to present innovative and pragmatic solutions to address the challenges of migration.

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 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.

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

• Table of Content
• About Geneva Graduate Institute
• Geneva Challenge 2025 Advancing Development Goals International Contes
• Aim and Benefits of Geneva Challenge 2025 Advancing Development Goals International Contes
• Requirements for Geneva Challenge 2025 Advancing Development Goals International Contes Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Geneva Graduate Institute

The Geneva Graduate Institute is a higher education institution and a pioneer in the exploration of global issues. Through our core missions – academic research, teaching, expertise and forum activities – we produce and share knowledge on international relations, development issues, global challenges and governance. Located in the heart of International Geneva, a centre of global governance, we build on scientific excellence and transdisciplinarity to foster critical and creative thinking on the major challenges of our time. By engaging with international organisations, NGOs, go... continue reading

Geneva Challenge 2025 Advancing Development Goals International Contes

Application Deadline	16 Jul 2025
Type	Contest
Sponsor	Geneva Graduate Institute
Gender	Men and Women

Aim and Benefits of Geneva Challenge 2025 Advancing Development Goals International Contes

• 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.
• All members of the 5 finalist teams will be invited to come to Geneva for an oral presentation where they will defend their proposals and answer questions from the Jury and from the public
• Travel expenses such as flights, visa requests and accommodation are covered by the organisation of the contest for this purpose.

Requirements for Geneva Challenge 2025 Advancing Development Goals International Contes Qualification

• Participants of the ADG contest 2025 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.

Application Deadline

July 16, 2025

How to Apply

Registration deadline:  30 April 2025 at 23:59 CET.

Submission deadline: 16 July 2025 at 23:59 CET.

For more details, visit Geneva Graduate Institute webpage