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.

We invite teams of students to:nbsp;

Your submissions will be evaluated by an interdisciplinary
academic steering committee
who will select semi-finalists to be
published on the competitions website
and then reviewed by an independent jury of experts with academic, governmental and private sector backgrounds.

identify a challenge stemming from employment;
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 development opportunity.