Call for Applications: St. Gallen Symposium Global Leadership Challenge & Global Essay Competition

The core theme for GLC 2022 is ‘A New Generational Contract’ focusing on four SDG challenges:

• SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being
• SDG 4: Quality Education
• SDG 5: Gender Equality
• SDG 13: Climate Action

• Student currently enrolled in a Masters or a PhD programme or young professional aged between 21-30 years
• Demonstrating commitment to responsible leadership through extra-curricular activities and/or work experience
• Committed to investing around five half-days in GLC
• Applications from around the world and from all academic disciplines are welcome

• The winning team with the most outstanding project idea will be offered to attend the St. Gallen Symposium as Leaders of Tomorrow with expenses for travel and accommodation fully covered.
• Participants can apply for further mentoring in two tracks: “entrepreneurship” with EWOR Education, and grow as future leaders with the Oxford Character Project at the University of Oxford
• All active participants will receive a Certificate of Achievement from the University of Oxford and the St. Gallen Symposium

The annual St. Gallen Symposium is the world’s leading initiative for cross-generational dialogue on the most pressing issues of our time. Participants can engage with 300 of the society’s brightest young minds and join the debate with 600 senior leaders worldwide.

• Enrolled in a graduate or postgraduate programme (master level or higher) in any field of study at a regular university
• Born in 1993 or later

• 100 best submissions will qualify as Leaders of Tomorrow and get the unique opportunity to participate at the St. Gallen Symposium in an all-expenses covered trip to Switzerland
• A prize money of CHF 20,000 will also be shared amongst the best three winner

A)   What’s the best legacy your generation has inherited from those before you? And how can we preserve it?

B)   What’s the worst legacy your generation has inherited from those before you? And how can we replace it?

Essay should follow the template and be submitted by 1 February 2023. For more information, please visit the competition website.