The Geneva Challenge, hosted by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, is a project funded by Swiss Ambassador Jenö Staehelin and aims to encourage interdisciplinary problem-solving analysis among master students on advancing human development within the scope of a relevant topic.
This year, students are invited to develop analysis-based proposals on “The Challenges of Loneliness”.
As the key to this issue is an interdisciplinary solution, crossing traditional boundaries between academic disciplines, we are inviting Master students from all academic programmes and from anywhere in the world to provide helpful strategic recommendations.
Five prizes, one per continent, will be distributed.Teams of 3-5 master students must submit an 8,000 words proposal which: identifies a challenge related to loneliness; constructs an interdisciplinary analysis on how it affects different aspects of development in a specific (but transposable) context; proposes innovation at the policy, practice, process or technology levels turning the challenge into a development opportunity.
