Deadline: 1st February 2024
Registration is now open for the St Gallen Symposium Global Essay Competition 2024 . Take part in the Global Essay Competition and qualify to be a Leader of Tomorrow at the world's leading opportunity for intergenerational debate: the St Gallen Symposium.
Meet 300 of society's brightest young minds. Present and debate your ideas with 600 senior leaders. Be inspired by some of the world's most impressive speakers. Get a new and unique perspective on this year's theme. Become a member of a unique global community. Attend the symposium.
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Thematic question : Strive for more or thrive with less - What pressing shortage do you see and how would you suggest tackling it?
Scarcity generally refers to a situation in which human needs exceed available resources. This year's Global Essay Contest invites young leaders from around the world to focus on a specific contemporary or future challenge related to scarcity and propose an innovative way to address it.
Be creative when thinking about the proposed solutions: do we need to strive for more and find ways to increase the availability of the resource in question? Or does it centre on ways to prosper with less and thus rethink our needs and demands?
Be free in your choice of scarce resources to focus on: examples include - but are NOT limited to - human labour, capital, natural resources or intangibles such as time, creativity or care. Be bold and precise in describing a contemporary or future challenge of scarcity and the specific type of resources you focus on, and offer a concrete and practical idea of how we should tackle it.
Prize
- Win a cash prize of CHF 20,000 divided between the three winners.
Eligibility
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- Be enrolled in an undergraduate or postgraduate programme (master's level or higher) in any field of study at a regular university;
- Born in 1994 or later.
Selection criteria
For your contribution to be valid, the following criteria must be met:
- In essay format (maximum 2,100 words, excluding summary, bibliography and footnotes)
- Your name, e-mail address, university or any identifying details should not be mentioned anywhere in the contribution file.
- Individual work is expected, group work is not permitted. The essay must be written exclusively for this competition. The idea must be the author's own.
- All sources must be cited and referred to the respective part of the essay. All contributions will be tested for plagiarism.
- The acceptable language is English.
Application
Make sure you provide the following documents:
- Copy of passport or other identification document (in English for non-Roman languages).
- Confirmation of enrolment/registration at your university proving your enrolment in an undergraduate/postgraduate programme from 1st February 2023 (download document template) here ).
- Your contribution file with no indication of your name in the file name, in the file metadata or in the file itself.
