St. Gallen Symposium Global Essay Competition 2025 | CHF 20,000

The St. Gallen Symposium Global Essay Competition 2025 is currently open for submission. Become a member of a unique global community by participating

St. Gallen Symposium Global Essay Competition 2025

The St. Gallen Symposium Global Essay Competition 2025 is currently open for submission. Become a member of a unique global community by participating in the symposium. Also, win prize money of CHF 20,000 split amongst the three winners.

Topic Question

In recent years and going forward, nations across Asia, Africa and Latin America are emerging as new centres of global power. This shift towards a multipolar world extends across several dimensions, incl. economic, political, technological, societal, cultural and demographic ones. Overall, it represents one of the fundamental trends today’s and tomorrow’s leaders need to grapple with and comprehend. 

Global power is shifting. What’s your innovative idea to address a related risk or opportunity?

• BRIEFLY describe ONE specific risk or opportunity related to shifting power across world regions and nations in some specific field, including (but not limited to!) politics, business, economics, technology, sustainability or security 
• Offer your innovative and concrete solution to address this development, i.e. how to deal with the risk or leverage the opportunity you’ve identified 
• Be bold and think beyond the status quo, while being as specific as possible.

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Submission Guidelines for the St. Gallen Symposium Global Essay Competition 2025

Qualify with an excellent essay. We expect a professional, creative and thought-provoking essay. Be bold, unconventional, and distinctive on the competition question.

For your contribution to be valid, the following criteria must be met:

1. Form Essay (max. 2,100 words, excl. abstract, bibliography, and footnotes)
2. Language English
3. Deadline 1 February 2025, 11:59 p.m. last time zone (UTC-12)
4. Anonymity Your name, e-mail address, university, or any identifying details must not be mentioned anywhere in the contribution file.
5. Individuality Individual work expected, no group work allowed. The essay must be written exclusively for this contest. The idea must be the author’s own.
6. Citation All sources must be cited and referred to the respective part in the essay. All contributions will be tested for plagiarism.
7. Any auxiliary aids (AI, proofreading, translation service, layout/graphics services, writing and translation programs, etc.) are to be listed in an auxiliary aids directory.
8. Template Download Template for the Global Essay Competition
9. Check your eligibility and prepare documents. To be eligible, you must fulfill all of the following criteria:
10. Enrolled in a graduate or postgraduate programme (master level or higher) in any field of study at a regular university
11. Born in 1995 or later
12. Make sure you can provide the following documents:
13. Copy of passport or other identification (in English for non-Roman languages)
14. Confirmation of matriculation/enrolment from your university which proves your enrollment in a graduate/postgraduate level programme as of 1 February 2025 (download sample document here)
15. Your contribution file with no indication of your name in the file name, the file metadata or the file itself

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